500pcs WS2811 LED pixels lights

I love these! I have used them on a couple different things so far, originally I was going to use them with my computers to extend the ARGB set ups... It was then that I learned many of the strip lights do NOT use RGB color order for the data. These use GRB, the green and blue are swapped compared to what is usually RGB order on computer ARGB lighting. Because of this, I have used them with ESP32 based WLED controllers and been very happy with them! So far, I have only found one of these types of LED strings that is RGB order, and I was actually very surprised to see that! So I will use them with my computers...

I have over 5000 Alitove 5v WS2811's in my Christmas show. Love these lights. I always cut the ends off and use Ray Wu connectors to waterproof the ends. I also use Marine Grade shrink wrap from Harbor Freight. It has an adhesive in it for waterproofing. I use a F16V3 from pixelcontroller.com (upgrading to F16V5 soon) to run the lights. I have them set at 40% brightness. I power inject every 100 and could probably go longer but it works just fine. Use xLights for the software to program the lights. I've never had any issues with the Alitove 5v but did have issues with the 12v (not Alitove) but they were from 2020 and everyone got a bad batch due to the big "C" word. Great lights and plan on buying more! Thanks Alitove!

These work great with ESPhome and WLED using ESP32s. I cut the last 10 LEDs off the end of the string to use for other one and two addressable LED projects. I can control both ESPhome and WLED with Home Assistant. Keep in mind you will need a separate 5V 4A power supply to run all 50 LEDs.

These strands have an effective resistance of 0.8Ω. At full power, this 5V-rated strand draws nearly 10W and drops 1.37V! That means the very next strand in the chain isn't getting enough voltage, and the whites turn yellow as the blues drop out. You can mitigate that problem by dropping the brightness substantially in software, but now they're not as bright. Basically, despite being connector-ed for easy chaining, chaining 5V strands end-to-end doesn't really work out. I spent my weekend soldering in a parallel run of 14ga wire to the supplied pigtails to keep the voltage boosted, which kind of defeats the purpose of the chaining connectors. I bought some 12V versions. They draw less current so they drop less voltage, plus they can withstand a much bigger drop of about 5V (to 7V) before color distortion appears. At 7V they're noticeably dimmer (about 25% brightness), but it would be easy to level the brightness in software. If you're happy with 25%, you could chain 14-15 strings together (200 feet of lights!) without trouble. Or use shorter chains and run at 50%, which is perceptually very close to full brightness.

These work great, going to use them for this year's Xmas tree. So far works as expected with WLED, my only issue so far is the horrid off gassing smell coming from the light string. It's pretty bad, enough to mention it. Going to leave them out in the garage for a few days to see if it helps.

I have a 5 meter Alitove RGB strip that my wife commandeered for our last holiday party to light up our outdoor bar. It wasn’t the best for the task because the strip is flat and doesn’t turn corners well. I bought one of these to check out and will be buying more. I’m using one of Alitove’s $11 RF controllers to drive the strip because I don’t really care about programming a micro controller with a bunch of patterns and their controller has a lot of variations - plus our guests found them really cool and trippy, so that’s always a plus. While testing the new strand in my lab I did note that the 5-Volt strand peaked at 2.77 Amps with all LEDS set to white and full brightness. As someone else mentioned you will need at least 3 Amps per strand to supply them. My lab supply is variable so I got to see that the strands stay reasonably bright down to about 3 volts, and either the LEDs or my controller stops changing the LEDS at about 2.33 Volts. Current draw with all LEDs set to white and full brightness at 3.3 Volts was 900 milliAmps. At 5 Volts I found the lights to be almost uncomfortably bright but this was sitting within 3 feet of them. Plenty bright for my taste. The power wire is I think a Metric gauge that is somewhere between 24 and 26 AWG. At least, that’s the way it fits in my Klein strippers. While some may complain about this, especially when wanting to run more than one strand, it is the cost of having a smaller wire bundle with a good deal of flexibility. The last point, and what almost cost them a star, is that like others my Red and Green channels are swapped. Not a big deal for my application but it will keep me from mixing and matching with other strips and panels.

Installed these as semi-permanent onto my home, just in time for Halloween. Colors are great, and they are easy to program against. I used an ESP8266 and FastLED. My only complaint is that not every bulb were perfectly round so some were harder to install into a half inch hole, and occasionally the distance from bulb to bulb was a little shorter than specified making it harder to install into pre-drilled holes every 2.5 inches. Keep that in mind when planning for your installation. As with any LED strip, you need to run a separate power line to tap into the line every strand or 2. This is standard.

Set up with WLED on a NodeMCU and everything worked perfectly.

Exactly as described, made a mega tree fomr them, worked a treat

Die LED Lichterkette kam wie gewohnt schnell und war gut verpackt. Habe diese an einen Esp8266 getestet mit Wled und sie macht ein super Eindruck. Die Led's sind sehr hell und es gibt keine Farbfehler o.ä. Auf lange Sicht wird sich zeigen ob es in Zukunft auch so bleibt. Bisher aber klare Kaufempfehlung.

Funktioniert super, schnelle Lieferung und Paket/Inhalt kam komplett unbeschädigt. :)

Works ok