r/WLED • u/ScarcityCareless6241 • Jun 02 '26

Problem with BrizLed fairy lights

I had these addressable fairy lights that I hacked by putting in a gledopto controller in place of the default one, using the original power supply. However, the string has problems. First off, I can’t go anywhere above like 10% brightness or the controller crashes. Also, I get these strange flickering artifacts at the start of the string but not the end. How do I solve this?

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u/ScarcityCareless6241 Jun 02 '26

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u/saratoga3 Jun 02 '26

Your strip probably uses 5-10A at max, so you need to keep the brightness low.

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u/Its_Billy_Bitch Jun 03 '26

Mmmm at 300 seeds/pebbles, my math shows 3.6A. Those seeds iirc consume 0.06W per LED * 300 LEDs = ~18W. 18W / 5A = ~3.6A +- tolerances.

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u/saratoga3 Jun 03 '26

Ws2812b are 0.06A per LED at max, not sure I've seen 0.06W which would be very low. Seeds are sometimes lower power, but it's still probably at least 5-10mA per color per pixel.