Please audit a noob's planned setup for 6x LED strips at 1800 LEDs!
Hi,
First time LED user looking to set up 6 strips around the ceiling in my basement and sync them with music with LedFX. I have procured one strip, a controller, and a PSU to do proof-of-concept and successfully got one strip up and running. I was hoping someone would kindly look over my list and plan and let me know if there are any glaring issues, especially on the power end.
Strips are BTF Lighting SK6812s, 5-meter strips at 300 LEDs.
For PSUs I was planning to use 2x LRS-200-5, each one powering three strips.
For controllers, I will use 2x MagWLED-1, one for each three-strip grouping.
For power, the PSU has 3x + and 3x – terminals, so my intention was each strip would run directly to the PSU using 12 AWG cabling.
At each strip, use a splitter to power inject into both ends of the LED strip. So essentially each strip would be like, thin LED black cord into a wago inline connector, 12awg black cord to a 3-conductor splicing connector, same on other side of strip, then third conductor runs back to PSU, repeat for red wires, repeat for all strips. Strips connect to each other with their included connectors.
Controllers get synced.
So in sum I would have:
- 6x BTF Lighting SK6812 (1800 LEDs)
- 2x MagWLED-1
- 2x LRS-200-5
- 12 AWG black cabling
- 12 AWG red cabling
- 24x inline splicing connector (wago 221-2401)
- 12x 3-conductor splicing connector (wago 221-413)
I also will get muzata v-shaped channels/diffusers to run them around the ceiling and 3m VHB tape to mount them to the channels.
One thing I don’t know if whether the MagWLED-1 board pulls power from its USB connector when connected to both a USB PSU and to the first strip, because if I have just the USB PSU plugged in, it shows the power negotiation light, but if I have both USB and the strip connected to a PSU via its injection cables, it doesn’t show that light, and removing the USB power supply with the PSU plugged into injection cables it still works as expected and shows a green light, so does anyone know if I should keep the USB PSU connected to the controller, or no?
Thanks so much for helping out a noob, just looking to create a fun dance area for my toddler :-)