Hesitating between APA102, SK9822, WS2812BECO and SK6812

my APA102 30led/mtr ledstrip runs for 2 years now and not one led is misfiring.

Quality cost money 💰

That's my answer to cheap leds...

I use my setup almost every day

RGBw has separate whites, so the white parts are.more fluent.

You have the w types in natural,cool en warm whites

RGBW only SK6812

regards pclin

Zitat von SaladCesar

Also are APA102 RGB or RGBW ? I didn't find this info anywhere.

like pclin mentioned,

RGBW is RGB+W

you have these in special types,

RGB+CW cool white, kelvin temp is high, more blue

RGB+WW warm white kelvin temp is low, less blue

RGB+NW natural white kelvin temp is medium, medium blue

(think of your pc monitor, colours are often mentioned in Kelvin )

APA102's don't come ( at least i know off) in +W types, you don't need that for the APA because the whites are very nice put together within the led.

If you are purchasing W type ledstrips then in Hyperion you have the option ( led controller section) to send the separate white data to the leds

note: its also possible to make the string out of separate RGB leds > i was thinking about it before because they are bigger ( more bright/MCD values) than the standard 50/50 SMD leds on a strip.

the only thing is to make the frame for them can be time consuming and more expensive, but i've seen builds on the internet which looked also very nice.

so make up your mind what you want.