2024-02-27

The difference between WS2811 and WS2818 light belts

The difference between WS2811 and WS2818 light belts

More and more popular in the market, widely used in KTV, outdoor landscape, machinery and equipment above, make life more colorful.
WS2811 and WS2818 because of the similar appearance and performance, many customers can not tell the difference between them, hereby share with you as follows.
WS2811LED light belt
Main features:
1. WS2811 light strip is one of the most popular magic light strips in the market, the price is relatively cheap, the performance is superior, and the installation is convenient
2. If the WS2811 chip provided by the original manufacturer is used, the difference in the performance of the lamp mainly depends on the quality of the RGB lamp beads. Hanglong's RGB lamp beads use the chip and three ampere chip, high brightness, highly consistent color, can be guaranteed for 3 years
3. There is a common problem in the market of magic lights, the 3M backing glue used on the back of the product is an imitation, and it is easy to fall off after installation. If you want high quality products, please make sure that the back of the product is genuine 300SLE.
4. If an IC is damaged in WS2811, the light belt after this IC will not be bright or garbled; If there is a quality problem during routine installation, you need to cut off the group with the damaged IC and reattach it to solve the problem
5. The performance of WS2811 is the same as that of UCS1903 and SM16703. If there is a need to replace these two ics, it is also possible
WS2818 LED light belt
Main features:
The WS2811 has the same performance as the WS2818
Like WS2818 and WS2811, the quality of the product mainly depends on the quality of the lamp beads and the authenticity of the 3M back glue
WS2818 has a breakpoint continuation function, that is, there are two signal lines. If an IC is damaged, it will only affect the set of lights that damaged the IC, and it will not affect the lights behind the IC
Therefore, the WS2818 light belt can also be regarded as an upgraded version of WS2811, and customers with higher quality requirements can choose the WS2813 light belt
In general, the main difference between WS2811 light strip and WS2818 light strip is whether there is a breakpoint continuation function, and other performance is consistent.