🌟 BTF-LIGHTING Chasing Dream Full Color Twinkle Decorative Lights: 5m/16.4ft 50LEDs WS2812B IC Fairy String Lights for Kid's Bedroom, Christmas Tree, Festival Party - No Power or Controller Included Review

I LOVE the idea of these things. They seemed perfect for holiday decorations etc and looked much prettier than regular ws2811 12mm led string lights. However, these lights are incredibly fragile, the wires break very easily. I unwound a cord with great care, carefully hung it, adjusted the position for a fixing point (I just hung the cord on small hooks around the door frame) and ended up with 4 broken wires somewhere in the middle of the cord, which I had to solder back, was the royal PITA…

This is the only individually addressable "Magic Light" LED string I've seen and it works and looks fantastic. I bought 1 thread to decorate a mini Christmas tree in my stepdaughter's bedroom. I connected it to esp32 with wLED and the result was perfect. She loves it - she really enjoys switching between different effects and changing the color palette to suit her mood and had a lot of fun decorating. She has shown it off to all her friends and family and is proud to own something very unique…

I love the look of these tiny addressable lights and had high hopes for their use in holiday lighting, particularly in places where the bulkiness of traditional 12mm pixels would not be aesthetically pleasing. Pretty. However, the claim that they are IP65 waterproof is misleading at best. Of the 18 wires I had attached to three trees in the yard, more than half failed during the first downpour they encountered.* I turned off the power as soon as I saw that and let them dry before I plugged them

I bought these not knowing what I would do with them, but the idea of having individually addressed lights was too good to pass up. It was possible to power it via a USB connection, but the seller said that was not possible. But I'm happy to report that they can indeed be USB powered if you use a NodeMCU controller like an ESP32 or ESP8266. Computer. They worked great. They have great functionality and look amazing! However, handle them very carefully, since the wiring is fragile and does not…

These are excellent individually addressable WS2812B LEDs in a string light configuration. I've had great success with them, but they are fragile so handle them carefully. I have bought several products from BTF-Lighting and have never had a problem. All of their LED products are well made and well packaged. So far I haven't had any problems with any of their products. Things you should know: 1. The maximum power is 10W. 50 LEDs per strip. DC 5V 2A power supply is recommended.2. These are not…

This is one of my favorite Neopixel/WS2812b compatible configurations. This particular BTF Lighting product is my favorite string of lights. I feed them my own animations running on microcontrollers. You can of course use any 5V WS2812b from BTF Lighting or another supplier if you don't want to program the MCU yourself. Why don't you program them yourself? You can do interesting things with analog or digital data interpolation, use math to display fractals, create eye-catching animations…

I was tempted to dismiss them because of the power outage issue, but if you know the problem and are willing to either live with it or fix it yourself, this is a good light. I bought a set of 4 strings (200 bulbs) with a controller and a power supply. If you line up all 4 and put them on top of all the white ones, then the 1st thread will be white, the 2nd will be yellow, the 3rd will be orange, and the 4th will be red. You need to manually add power, maybe in the middle and at the end, to fix…

Update 12/10/21: I'm getting more of these again. The wood and the two wreaths wrapped in it had no quality control issues and they continued to withstand my bends and pulls, bumps and twists without breaking. And aside from making sure not to tangle a knot in the wire (no magic lightbulb can resist that), I don't babysit them. Tree, only 250 pixels, and despite my bipolar induced tricky bending, twisting, wrapping, unrolling, unrolling and de-bending to distribute them almost to my liking…