Alarmpore 40 Key Infrared IR Remote RGBW Controller for 3528 5050 RGBW RGBWW LED Strip Light, DC12V-24V

For the price, how can you beat this? Works great, but be warned that the maximum drive current (per channel) this device advertises is 2A. I paired this with the Alarmpore 16.4FT Double Row 5050 RGBW strip and it eventually fried the white channel in the controller, since the strip of 300 white LEDs at full brightness draws 3.3A (way more than the 2A limit). It worked for a short while but eventually became just stuck on at full brightness. I opened it and verified the output MOSFET (transistor) had failed. Not catastrophically (like melting or fire), but was no longer functioning properly.I should have known to check this out and not just assume that these would be compatible, even though they are both sold by Alarmpore.

Your browser does not support HTML5 video.  This is a small four channel controller designed to drive RGBW LED strips that are wired in a common anode configuration, as most of the strips seem to be. The four channels are intended to be used for red, blue, green, and white channels. The included remote control allows you to control the brightness of the channels in many different ways to achieve a wide variety of colors and lighting effects.FEATURESThe controller is basically a small box with a 4 inch connector wire and a 4 inch wire with an infrared sensor at the end. The infrared remote has a membrane design with 40 buttons for adjusting the brightness, color, and lighting effects. A CR2025 lithium button cell is included. There is a pleasing fade transition when changing colors or brightness. The RGB channels have separate controls from the white channel.There are 24 buttons for the RGB channels. There are two buttons to turn the LEDs on and off, and up and down buttons to adjust the brightness. There are four buttons to change the color to white, red only, blue only, or green only. There are also 16 additional color buttons to select 16 other preset colors. There is a pleasing fade transition when changing colors. Note that the RGB LEDs can be turned on and off independently of the white leds.The section for the white LEDs has 16 buttons with similar functionality. There are on and off buttons, and up and down buttons to adjust brightness. There a also four preset brightness keys corresponding to 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% brightness. There is a pleasing fade transition when changing brightness. Note that the white LEDs can be turned on and off independently of the RGB LEDs.At the bottom of the remote there are eight additional keys to adjust various lighting effects for the RGB LEDs. The lighting effects do not use the white channel, so you can adjust the brightness of the white LEDs independently. There are basically 3 different types of effects: "jump", "fade", and "flash". "Jump3" will flash the colors red, green, and blue sequentially without any transition effect. "Jump7" will flash red, green, yellow, blue, purple, teal, and white sequentially without any transition effect. "Fade3" cycles the colors red, green, and blue smoothly fading to full brightness and full off between each color. "Fade7" sequences through the same color pattern as "Jump7", but fades smoothly between the colors at a consistent brighness without fading to off in between. "Flash" sequences through the same 7 colors without a fade transition and turns off the LEDs in between each color. "Auto" cycles between different effects in the following order: fade7, fade3, flash7, jump3. For all of the effects, the speed can be adjusted using the "quick" and "slow" buttons. The brightness buttons do not seem to have any effect on the RGB leds while the effects are running.SETUPIt is very easy to connect both the power supply and the LED strip. The controller is designed to be used with a power supply that can deliver 12-24 volts. For the power connection, the controller has a standard 2.1 mm barrel jack which fits with most of the power supplies commonly available for this application. As the controller is rated for 2 amps per channel, you will need a power supply that can supply more than 8 amps to achieve the maximum brightness from your LED strip. The controller has two small plastic mounting ears to make it easy to mount to a board or under a cabinet with screws or nails.The LED end of the controller has a standard 5 pin female header designed for swiss machine pins, which matches the female header used on most of the commonly available LED strips. You will need a male 5 pin swiss header is included to make the connection to the LED strip. This is commonly included with LED strips. You can also use a small gauge wire if you don't have a swiss header strip. There is an arrow to indicate the common anode connection, which corresponds to the black wire on most LED strips.PERFORMANCETo test this controller, I used a 12 volt power supply rated at 10 amps and a 12 volt RGBW LED strip made up of 300 warm white surface mount LEDs and 300 RGB surface mount LEDs. That's 600 LEDs, so at full brightness, this thing draws a lot of current! Each channel of the controller is rated for 2 amps, and it was able to deliver a surprising amount of power to the LED strip. I ran the LED strip at full brightness for several hours with no problems. At full brightness, the 600 LEDs are quite blinding if you look at them directly. That's probably about as many LEDs as you would want to drive without sacrificing performance. You might even get more brightness with fewer LEDs. I suspect you might get better performance with a power supply that can deliver a higher voltage.Under ideal conditions, the remote operates reliably up to 7 feet away and about 20 degrees off center. You will get best results in a dim room with the infrared sensor shielded from the light of the LEDs. This is not really suitable for controlling from the couch across a large brightly lit room. However, it would work great for under cabinet lighting in a small kitchen.The effects are pleasing and the various adjustments operate as expected. You can't make custom colors or custom effects.SUMMARYThis is a great plug and play controller for small RGW LED strips. It can drive 600 LEDs at a very satisfactory brightness. It's very easy to use. Let's be honest, it's not going to control the light system for a large dance club. However you get a lot of functionality for not a lot of money. I'd buy it again.

I've purchased many of the "double row" RGB WW Alarmpore LED strip lights for my wedding center to light under tables. The LED light strips themselves are an excellent product - I've yet to have a defective strip or issue with them. However, I have had a number of these controllers (over 10 units) go bad at at a minimum either simply quit working or, at worst, melt at the contact point with the Alarmpore (TM) AC 100-240V to DC 12V 10A Power Supply. I suspect the contact between the insert for the controller and the plug from the power supply is not snug enough causing a short at times. I'm looking for a different type of controller that is sturdier.

Your browser does not support HTML5 video.  This controller has 20 prebuild colors, 6 modes, speed setting, brightness setting (fixed and custom) and separate on/off switch for colored and white light. It has the IR remote, so make sure to place the IR receiver in-line-of-sight. The socket which connects to LED doesn't have marking or marked polarity, if it is not working, you may have to flip the connector.

Works great with rgbw led stripGood price and powerful functions.Function of the controller is really powerful. It has white and rbg channels and can control rbg light and white light separately. I used it for 5050 rgbww led strip (ASIN: B01HREMKYK). It works really great. It can turn on just the warm white, just the colored, and both. It also can adjust the brightness of the warm white and the colored individually. It can flash, fade, dim, jump etc. With it, you can create vivid and vibrant colors that you like. It is quite easy to use.

Worked perfectly with RGBW strip. No issues in daughters room. Good for younger kids to play in room and enjoy LEDS.

Unit lasted 6 weeks. Died right outside of the return window.

Remote works on 4 and 5 pin leds