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Excellent customer service, not to mention great set of Lights!

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2023

My project for this was to add custom lighting to a bunk bed. After I got the lights in I spent some time to solder the three wire lead to the ESP8266 chip powered it up and noticed the last 1/3 of the leds were not functioning correctly. Either some damage or failed chip but communication signals were definitely going haywire after that point. I contacted the seller with a picture of the issue and they immediately had another set sent out. I received them and tested them with the same setup as before and working perfectly! These are perfect for my project and really throw off some good light even using a small power supply like a USB phone charger. I’m sure they can even go brighter with higher amperage but it’s really not needed! Thanks again Alitove! Did I mention great customer support!?!

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Gustavo A. Ramos

Dud! No good do not buy.

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2023

They must have been in storage for while the protective clear rubber rips easily. They have breaks in soldering connections. Took a while to realize. NEVER buy from them. Got my lights before Christmas to be ready now they are useless. Again DO NOT BUY.

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Tim

Excellent customer service, not to mention great set of Lights!

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2023

Color: Black FPCBSize: Waterproof IP67Verified Purchase

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Dennis Chapman

Fast and bright and dense and waterproof!

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2023

Color: Black FPCBSize: Waterproof IP67Verified Purchase

Since 2018, I've been using Alitove WS2811 compliant LED strips driven by various microcontrollers for Christmas lights. Given their traditional individual lights separated by wire, I still place them on trees. However for my 120' front three plank redwood fence I wanted a light strip that was dense and could be attached to the bottom side of the fence planks.
I'm very pleased with the results. Some adjustments were required such as new algorithms for a 2,100 pixel 35 meter strand as well as distributed 5v power. But the colors and brightness are superb and I'm planning on additional strands around our property.

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Christopher Cooper

Great product

Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2017

Color: Black FPCBSize: Waterproof IP67Verified Purchase

I used these for making a costume. They worked well and seem to be quite durable. There are a few gotchas to working with them though.

1. The weatherproofing sleeve is too slick to be hot glued to anything. The glue just falls off as it cools.

2. Keep in mind how much power each light can use at most (60ma). As a result, the whole roll of lights at full bright white light can use up to 18A!

3. Don't expect to use the entire roll in a single run as the product picture might suggest. If powered at 5V as specified, the resistance of the strip will cause the voltage to sag by the end and as a result the color to change. Even if powered from both ends, the same will happen in the middle.

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Doctor Slugworth

these work well.

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2019

Color: Black FPCBSize: Waterproof IP67Verified Purchase

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they are bright. in the video an arduino mega is being used. though since then, I've been using a teensy with it and that works soo much better. if you're driving over a roll of lights be sure to inject more power on the other end otherwise the color degradation is very apparent due to voltage drop.

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Stephen

Easy Arduino project and Great Customer Support

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2018

Color: Black FPCBSize: Waterproof IP67Verified Purchase

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Very easy to wire and program with an Arduino UNO! My first strip unfortunately broke, but I got another one free of charge and customer support was amazing. The recommended power supply works but I would recommend one with more max amperage (Do NOT supply more than 5V to the strip.) I highly recommend the waterproof strip. The lights are smoothed out by the covering, more durable, and, of course, waterproof.

If you are interested in more details I have them below:

I bought the black non-waterproof strip and the recommended 5V 15A power supply so that I could hook it up to an Arduino UNO and create patterns and lighting around my desk. The wiring was easy, no soldering required, the colors are vibrant, and the strip is responsive and steady.

However, within an hour, my strip stopped working, so I contacted customer support. Their responses were friendly, understanding, and quick, and over the next week they helped me troubleshoot my problems by looking at my wiring and code, until they eventually gave me a full refund and let me keep the broken strip. I have since bought a waterproof strip and had no issues.

The power supply that is recommended (5V 15A) is plenty to run all the LEDs on max brightness, but only for colors. White light takes more energy than colors do, so at higher brightnesses you get flickering and redness. I only use colors, so its not a big deal, but it is a shame that I can't use its full potential. A 5V 18A power supply should be plenty to run the strip, even white colors at max brightness. If these issues really do bother you, there is an option to power the strip from both sides, which fixes a lot of it.

If you wish to do the same thing I have, I have attached a wiring diagram. You will need to download the Arduino IDE and the FastLED library. You will need to comment out the default option in setup() , uncomment the WS2812B option in setup(), and likely switch RGB to GRB in that line of code. Note that you may need to change your DATA_PIN in your code to 3 (or whichever pin you are using) and you can run the Arduino off of the power supply by plugging one of the red wires into Vin (not shown in the wiring diagram). You may need to attach a 220ohm or 470ohm resistor between the data pin and the green wire to reduce noise. Most other information can be found through Google.

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Kilotick

Clean manufacturing, All LEDs work when tested.

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2017

Color: Black FPCBSize: Waterproof IP67Verified Purchase

Definitely better quality than most of the other strips. the wiring is clean, adjacent wires are connected to each other (some of the other strips aren't) and the adhesive sealing the ends of the strip is clear and clean. Ran the strip through a full color test, and all 300 pixels worked perfectly. Really happy with this product.
I'll buy from you guys next time I need another strip!

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Gustavo A. Ramos

Dud! No good do not buy.

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2023

Color: Black FPCBSize: Waterproof IP67Verified Purchase

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coogle

Super bright, beautiful colors.

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2018

Color: Black FPCBSize: Waterproof IP67Verified Purchase

Super bright, bought them as a test-strip for possibly creating a permanently installed lighting system for holidays on the house that I can program for different occasions. They've worked great and look great -- I just need to figure out how to power them enough when it's not just one strip but 5 of them.

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Unresponsive Customer Service

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2023

Color: Black FPCBSize: Waterproof IP67Verified Purchase

I ordered 4 of these last year, and connected them to an esp32 board running wled. Unfortunately, one of the strips was much dimmer than the other three. At first I thought it was an issue with voltage drop, but this was the second strip in the series, and the third and fourth ones lit up just fine. Nevertheless, i tried a couple of fixes, such as injecting power at the ends of the strip, and swapping the position of the strip so that it was connected directly to the board. The issue remained with that specific strip. I'm giving this product 2 stars not because of the defective strip(the other 3 work flawlessly), but because I reached out to the manufacturer(and in this case the seller) through alitove.net but never received a response. I ended up purchasing a replacement strip myself, which works as intended, but will likely avoid this brand in the future.

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EzE

Good strips. Do your homework.

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2016

Color: Black FPCBSize: Waterproof IP67Verified Purchase

Do your homework. These are three wire (5v, gnd, data) neopixel compatible strips. If using a raspberry pi to drive them, you will need a logic level converter to drive the data line, Arduino ATMega328p works out of the box. I bought five strips and have tested two strands, both light as expected. Use a power supply rated for the lights, each pixel at full brightness will draw 60mA, 300 lights at full brightness will be 18A. It's also a good idea to place a resistor at the data line (~470 Ohm) to protect the controller if using an Arduino, also ~25v 1000uF cap across the 5v feed to prevent an onrush of current to the strip that could knock it out. I'm using the FastLED library without issue.

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