LED Tape Personality

We have recently purchased RGB LED tape to go behind the cross and inside the drum cage at our church. With the kit we ordered, we received a 3 channel DMX decoder. I was able to patch the lights into our Smartfade ML board, but the color palettes are all out of whack because there is no actual personality for the tape. Does anyone have any thoughts and/or suggestions?? I tried creating a new personality from scratch using the tutorial for the board, but didnt have any luck.

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Richard over 10 years ago

Most RGB LED tape is a Generic > LED-RGB
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jpgagnon over 10 years ago in reply to Richard

All LED's are not created equal, so color matching with other LED fixtures might not be the same. LED tape is usually very different in color temp than LED fixtures due to the small led diodes used.
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dstephens22 over 10 years ago in reply to jpgagnon

Well I am not as concerned about the colors matching, as much as just getting the board to recognize them. The board shows the color palette as it is for the rest of the fixtures, however, red displays yellow, blue displays red, magenta displays blue, etc. It is like the palette is scrambled. I thought maybe the tape was either GRB or BGR or BRG, but any combination we tried gave us an incorrect display. That is what lead me to believe maybe it was a device personality issue.
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sk8rs_dad over 10 years ago in reply to dstephens22

It sounds like your connections may be cross-wired, which is easy to do with LED tape drivers. The pinout for the SMD 5050 is something like BRG or BGR.
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sk8rs_dad over 10 years ago in reply to dstephens22

It sounds like your connections may be cross-wired, which is easy to do with LED tape drivers. The pinout for the SMD 5050 is something like BRG or BGR.
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Aristobulous over 10 years ago in reply to sk8rs_dad

I've seen some really cheap stuff where the tape itself is labelled wrong for +12,R,G,B and the only way to suss it out is to manually check each piece, it was very annoying.
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