Donation of LED strips, PSU's, Dimmers and other components

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Hello,

My name is Joe and I am an LED technician working in stage lighting for TV.

I have recently cleared out my office and I have a reasonable size donation of good quality LED strips (RGB, RGBW, WS2811, WS2812B + more), Meanwell power supplies, LED dimmers (LTECH + some RF control) as well as various other components such as waygos, led indicators and lots of useful things for building LED controllers.

I am based in Battersea and would appreciate if anybody would be able to come and collect this from me, there are maybe 4-5 bags worth so would easily fill a boot.

Please do reach out if you can help - I really don’t want all of this great kit to go to waste.

Cheers!
Joe

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@electrotechs

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I’m interested in some WS2811/WS2812B strips. How big are they? Are they big TV studio scaled things, or suitable for just learning at home?

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Most of the strips are in 5m reels but have cutting pads between each pixel (generally 64 LEDs per metre) so they can be cut and soldered into any length you like. 12mm wide PCBs.

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Thank you Joe for your generous offer, and welcome to the Makerspace! I’m happy to ferry this equipment from Battersea to the Space some time next week; is there a demand from members?

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It would be great to have good work lighting for messy room workbench, paint and finish areas etc. Might this also be used to help reduce our energy consumption and cost?

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Thanks @Hostead!
I’ve been playing around with a WS2812B matrix recently so I’d certainly be keen on some WS2812B strips and power supplies if they are available to members.

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Forgot to say, I could also help ferry to the space but would have to be today as I’m then away for a week. I see that @fincheee can help next week though

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Thanks @fincheee, would you be available to come on Monday by any chance?

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Hi Joe,

Thank you for the donation! I would love to take a look through when they arrive in the space, I could also pick up and drop off next week if needed.

Do you have any chasing LED strips or controllers at all?

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Hi Joel,

Yes the WS28 LEDs will be good for programming. Unfortunately I don’t think there is any digital control with the donation but the strips would be compatible with a Arduino/Raspberry Pi control system.

Would you be available to collect on Monday per chance?

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Unfortunately not. Thursday earliest.

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If it has to go by Monday, I could facilitate the pickup on Monday from Battersea. Let me know!

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Hi @danielbenton

That would be great if it was possible?

Not sure what the GDPR rules are here but do you want to send me your phone number so we can arrange the details?

My email address is jmhostead@live.co.uk

Cheers,
Joe

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Thanks @danielbenton , I’m out of the country at the moment, cannot do Monday.

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A quick mention: @Hostead delivered on his donation! Three large bags and a box full of goodies on the clean room table!

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Nice one! I’ll be in the space tomorrow evening. Hopefully there’s an led strip left, but may be picked clean by then!

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Hello! Is there any of this left?
Apologies I wasn’t able to help collect this but glad Daniel was able to do it!

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I had a little rummage. There are 2 bags behind the bike area now. I think one bag is a different donation by another user (can’t remember his name, sorry, one of the electrotechs?)

Only things left were the big strips of 12v leds and a few 24v. I don’t think they are individually addressable, and I’m not really certain how to control them. Not something that can be done easy with an aduino or esp. External power across 12v, common ground maybe? But I’m not sure what the rgb lines expect. Is it 12v,5v, or 3v signal? Is it pwm? I think they are all one unit too, so no individually addressing or chaser patterns, but maybe I’m wrong?

There’s a big string of heavy duty 5v ones with a data line. Spoke to the guy and said it’s easy enough to control with an arduino. External power on the 5v, common ground.

I’m going to look up to see if I can find a battery beefy enough to run it, but I left them there for now in case anyone has a better use case.

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