There's a slight difference in size with these new APA102 2020 strips.

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There’s a slight difference in size with these new APA102 2020 strips.

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Those are the 2020 ones I think. The ones on the wider strip are 5050 ones.

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@Ashley_M_Kirchner_No exactly. :slight_smile: haven’t seen any videos or even pictures of them except for the single picture on the manufacturers website.

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I have a reel somewhere of those … just the LED, for SMD projects. Gotta get my crap sorted out.

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@Ashley_M_Kirchner_No nice.

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Thanks for the video. So wonderfully tiny!
Now I’m going to have to come up with a reasonablely good reason to get some. :stuck_out_tongue:

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@marmil I thought people would like to see an actual comparison from someone who’s fairly active on the internet. As opposed to their ONE stock picture on the website. Haha

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Cool, I’m about to order some of the 200 led/m ones…

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@Jeremy_Spencer Nice! That’s what this strip is, 200. I bought three meters of each 100 and 200/Meter.

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Where can you buy them?

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@Kyle_Halvorson ​ and i thought the SK6812 on 3535 package were tiny but DANG! i have got to get me some of those. Where did you buy the strips from? And @Ashley_M_Kirchner_No ​ where did you buy the SMD chips from? I may need to start working with those. These 3535 LEDs are still too big for what i want to make.

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I bought them directly through the manufacturer. Neon-world.com sent them an email and 20 minutes later I received an invoice. Kinda weird… But they take payment though Western Union, payment went through and two days later I received the LEDs. :slight_smile: super fast shipping.

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Neon-world holds the patent for the APA102 chips. :joy:

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Lol yeah thats is weird i had to do the same for the MSGEQ7 chips. It would be nice if you could pay online through the website. But thanx man. I may buy a few i have a board that i want to make but it needs to be small. As it is right now it would be about 4" X 4" in size and i would prefer if it was at the most 2" X 2" in size

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@Cristian_Martinez nice! If you’re looking for just the bare LEDs, they’re available on eBay and aliexpress.

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Yeah adafruit has them for $5.95 for 10

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@Cristian_Martinez yeah that’s insanely expensive…

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Very! For just bare chips. Not to mention you gotta pay S&H

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https://m.alibaba.com/apa102-2020-smd-led-suppliers.html

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And these work with FastLED right?