diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 4f33386..a8efe7a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ LED Light Controller ==================== -The LED Light Controller is a simple board to control light strip. -These have hundreds of LEDs (60-120 led/meter) and use 12V (and ~1A/m). +The LED Light Controller is a simple board to control light strips. +These have hundreds of LEDs (60-120 led/meter) and use 12V (and ~0.5A/m). This board offers 2x5 outputs, so to be able to control 10 light strips independently (1 per color, RGB requires 3 channels). -The brightness of the light strips is PWM-controlled (this only works for LEDs). +The brightness of the light strips is PWM-controlled (this works well with LEDs). Different "modes" can be saved so to be able to rapidly select between user-defined settings. -You can control the lights over bluetooth, or using (almost) any infrared remote control (which you will have to configure using the serial or bluetooth port first). +You can control the lights over UART, or with (almost) an infrared remote control using NEC code (which you will have to configure using the UART port first). -The power for the light strips and the board is provided by an off-the-shelve PC power supply (compliant to the ATX specification). +The power for the light strips and the board is provided by an off-the-shelf PC power supply (compliant to the ATX specification). These offer ~10A for the 12V output through the main large connector (with 20 pins for ATX v1.x and 24 pins for ATX v2.x), which is used for the 5 first output channels. An additional 12V output is provided through a smaller 4-pin connector by ATX v2.x power supplies, used for the 5 last output channels. **The second connector has 4 pins, with 2 yellow cables on the side with the clip, and 2 black cables on the other side. DON'T CONNECT the one with 4 different colors.**