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Review on Acxico Driver Module Shield Arduino by Ralph Foster

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Works great with FastLED Arduino Type P9813 Library with 1 LED

Installs and runs in 5 minutes, no more soldering or MOSFET junk required for these simple RGB LED strips! I couldn't find much information about using these modules there. Use this and you'll be up and running in minutes :) 1. Use the FastLED library for Arduino. Suggest an example "ColorPalette" to run.2. Connect 12V power supply to module, 2 jumpers to 5V and GND on Arduino, 2 jumpers to any Arduino digital pins for CLK/DTA pins of module.3. Connect the RGB strip wires to the 4 pins of the terminal block on the module.4. Modify the quick library code example where the I/O pins match what you have connected. Set the value of NUM_LEDs to 1 (the library manages the module and strip like (1) RGB LED).6. Change the "addLeds" lines of code in the library examples to type P9813 (regardless of the chip on the strip) FastLED.addLeds<P9813, DATA_PIN, CLOCK_PIN , RGB>(leds, NUM_LEDS)7. Have fun! :)

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