Hi @FredEBear! Content from @Jason_Coon that you see here was imported to MakerForums from Google+ when Google shut down Google+, and he has not yet logged into MakerForums, so he isn’t here to see your question.
The reason that you couldn’t post your question in #electronics:fastled is that while there is an archive of old Google+ FastLED content on Maker Forums, the FastLED community has requested that new conversation happen on Reddit: