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Sometimes you need cool looking lights without any fuss or muss. Enter this 10m (32ft) string of RGB LEDs that plug into a USB port and are controlled via Bluetooth. Just download the app (scan the QR Code on the cable dongle) to your phone, pair to the string, and you’re all set – choose the hue, blink pattern, brightness, and more. No soldering or special connectors needed.

This is about as close as you can get to plug n’ play RGB goodness.

Specifications:

Operation:

  1. Scan QR code on control module to bring up the app store for “LED BLE”, and install it.
  2. Activate Bluetooth on your smartphone
  3. Plug in USB string light
  4. Pair with “LEDBLE”
  5. When you first open the LED BLE app, make sure you grant permissions to use the device location.
    1. If you get to a home screen for the app, select ‘LED BLE’.
  6. From within the app you can custom colour, blinking, brightness, and music options.

What could be better than LED string lights? Having USB powered led string lights that are also remote-controllable! Each string comes with 100 LEDs and is 10 meters (32′) long which means there is 1 LED every 10cm (4″). These have been manufactured with thin 26 gauge copper enameled wire which makes it easy to bend into shapes but and keeps the string lightweight.

The remote that comes in the box allows

The little USB dongle also has a button on it that allows you to cycle through the colors and animations manually, just in case you have misplaced the remote.

Specifications:

We have no idea how or why these nifty little LED string lights were made, but they’re so nifty, we had to have some. These tiny LEDs are soldered to what looks like bare wires, but are in fact enamel coated, so these are very thin indeed.

Specifications:

Color-specific Note – Warm White:

Color-specific Note – Blinking RGB:

This particular kind has a Red/Green/Blue LED installed 10cm (~4″) apart down the whole string. Apply power (3~3.4V), and they start blinking. Sparkfun member codertao recenty posted his results using this string at different voltages:

Note: Please see the Resources tab for comparison data on different LED strips.

When we first saw this type of LED string, we know we had to have them. But with more bling. Instead of 10cm (4″) spacing, we had our own manufactured with a much tighter ~3.3cm spacing (1.3″) spacing. But to keep the power requirements reasonable, these strings are a shorter 3.3M (10′) length.

As these use a solid-core wire, they can be bent and formed to generally hold a shape.

Specifications:

Note: This string is provided with a unattached resistor. Powering a string up without a resistor can result in burning out the whole string of LEDs. Soldering skill is necessary.

Performance Note: Factory datasheets suggest the LEDs are 20mA rated, but 90 LEDs @ 20mA = 1.8A. Although 26 gauge wire is 2.2A capable, we found powering up the strings over 15mA/LED causes stress to the LEDs closest to the power source. DO NOT exceed 10mA/LED (900mA for whole string) for safe operation.

See associated images for table of brightness.

3M of LEDs, 3.3cm apart, powered by 3 batteries… 3L333B? That’s a terrible name…

The Battery-box LED String is really quite brilliant, with an LED located every ~3.3cm over 10′ for a total of 90 LEDs. Available in a multitude of colors (even red, green and blue on the same strand), they’re a quick and easy way to add some LED bling to your project, with no soldering or hacking required.

As these use a solid-core wire, they can be bent and formed to generally hold a shape.

These use the same strings as our 60600 series, but without the need for a soldering iron.

Specifications:

 

When we first saw this type of LED string, we know we had to have them. But with more bling. Instead of 10cm (4″) spacing, we had our own manufactured with a much tighter 5cm spacing (1.9″) spacing. But to keep the power requirements reasonable, these strings are a shorter 3.3M (10′) length.

As these use a solid-core wire, they can be bent and formed to generally hold a shape.

Specifications:

Note: This string is provided with a unattached resistor. Powering a string up without a resistor can result in burning out the whole string of LEDs. Soldering skill is necessary.

Performance Note: Factory datasheets suggest the LEDs are 20mA rated, but 60 LEDs @ 20mA = 1.2A. Although 26 gauge wire is 2.2A capable, we found powering up the strings over 15mA/LED causes stress to the LEDs closest to the power source. DO NOT exceed 10mA/LED (600mA for whole string) for safe operation.

 

The Grove – LED String Light is a LED Driver.  The input voltage of this module is 5V/3V3, but the string light is works at 12V.  This module is based on the AIC1896 which is a current mode step up DC/DC Converter. Grove – LED String Light is equipped with a 5M RGB LED String Light.

Specifications:
Package Includes:

Note: These are not the Adafruit 12mm Diffused Flat Digital RGB LED Pixels (Strand of 25), although they look and behave the same (they use the same WS2801 chipset). The wiring color standard is different, and these are shorter strands of 20, not 25.

RGB LEDs are undoubtedly cool, especially when you can chain them together for neat effects. But if you have more than just a few to chain, it gets cumbersome. That’s where the Stringxels (strings of pixels) come in to make it easy.

Each unit of the stringxel features a silicon-overmolded water-resistant 8mm diffused RGB LED that looks fabulous. These 20-unit chains are wired together with beefy & flexible 20AWG ribbon cable, spaced 11cm (4-3/8″) apart, but unlike standard holiday LED light strings, you get to program their behavior!

Each stringxel unit features the well-documented WS2801 RGB controller IC, so you simply power up the string with 5V, and use common data-shifting techniques to clock in your data to each Stringxel. This isn’t quite the same as addressable LEDs, where each LED has a set permanent address; stringxel data is clocked “down the chain”, one stringxel at a time. When clocking is done, all the units latch, and light up the RGB data passed to them. It’s all documented in the Arduino sample code available under the Resources tab.

The same factory that manufactures these square-base units also makes a Bullet-type RGB LED Stringxels for more compact designs benefiting from a skinnier/tube-like form factor.

One strip draws ~1.0A at full brightness, so you are welcome to use the 5V 1A power adapter with it. If you are connecting more than one, we recommend a hardcore power supply that can handle quite a few amps (20A to be precise!). Or you could use a capable LiPo battery and add a buff 5V regulator with it to get this string off the grid. Yes, 5V doesn’t usually carry very far down a wire, but that’s the reason for the beefy 20AWG stranded wire. We cannot visually detect a difference from the first to the last stringxel!

If you need to patch strings together, we’ve got 3-conductor cables ideal for this. Keep in mind, these do not have the 5V line wired into the connector, as it’s expected you would be further feeding a better 5V source “down the chain” to keep the brightness up.

Applications:

Wiring (Different from Bullet-type):

Features:

RGB LEDs are undoubtedly cool, especially when you can chain them together for neat effects. But if you have more than just a few to chain, it gets cumbersome. That’s where the Bullet Stringxels (strings of pixels) come in to make it easy.

Each unit of the stringxel features a silicon-overmolded water-resistant 8mm diffused RGB LED that looks fabulous. These 20-unit chains are wired together with beefy & flexible 20AWG ribbon cable, spaced 8cm (3-1/8″) apart, but unlike standard holiday LED light strings, you get to program their behavior!

Each stringxel unit features the well-documented WS2801 RGB controller IC, so you simply power up the string with 5V, and use common data-shifting techniques to clock in your data to each Stringxel. This isn’t quite the same as addressable LEDs, where each LED has a set permanent address; stringxel data is clocked “down the chain”, as you are passing LED data down the chain, one stringxel at a time. When clocking is done, all the units latch, and light up the RGB data passed to them. It’s all documented in the Arduino sample code available under the Resources tab.

Note: These are not the Adafruit 12mm Diffused Thin Digital RGB LED Pixels (Strand of 25), although they look and behave the same (they use the same WS2801 chipset). The wiring color standard is different, and these are shorter strands of 20, not 25.

If you’re looking for a flatter way to install them, or a shorter string, we also have the 20-pack Flat-type RGB LED Stringxels.

One strip draws ~0.9A at full brightness, so we recommend a hardcore power supply that can handle quite a few amps (20A to be precise!). Or you could use a capable LiPo battery and add a buff 5V regulator with it to get this string off the grid. Yes, 5V doesn’t usually carry very far down a wire, but that’s the reason for the beefy 20AWG stranded wire. We cannot visually detect a difference from the first to the 20th stringxel!

Regarding power requirements: Yes, running RGB strips at full 100% on makes them white, and makes it draw maximum 0.9A. Our own experiments show that random RGB effects not using much white draws approximately 40~70% maximum draw. But it’s always best to oversize your power supply by 20% than be under by 20%! And if you’re looking for easy ways to connect the strings, check out the connectors!

Applications:

Wiring (Different from Flat-type):

Features:

 

Check out this video of Stringxels controlled by SB-FireFly: