Hippogriff
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I was thinking whether I could create a poor man's multi-coloured LED strip by using several 10cm lengths of my RGB LED strip and then in-between each segment, wiring the colours wrongly, i.e. keeping 12v the same on all, of course, but at the end of the first 10cm segment, wiring R to G, G to R and B to B, then at the end of the second, wiring R to B, G to G and B to R, then at the end of the third 10cm segment, wiring R to R, G to B and B to G...
Then, if I told my micro-controller to send Red to the LED strip, would I get a Red 10cm segment, followed by a Green 10cm segment, then a Blue and then a Red, likewise, doing the same with the other colours - and getting some really interesting stuff when doing things like Orange etc.?
Would that work fine 'cos each LED has its own resistor in place, or would I still risk doing something bad to the pieces of RGB LED strip?
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Then, if I told my micro-controller to send Red to the LED strip, would I get a Red 10cm segment, followed by a Green 10cm segment, then a Blue and then a Red, likewise, doing the same with the other colours - and getting some really interesting stuff when doing things like Orange etc.?
Would that work fine 'cos each LED has its own resistor in place, or would I still risk doing something bad to the pieces of RGB LED strip?
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