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[Chupa]

Does anyone know of strings of these lights with other diviner IC options? I think there was some with a TI driver around but I can not remember the P/N of the IC.

[Mee_n_Mac]

Does anyone know of strings of these lights with other diviner IC options?

Diviner IC options ??

From your post you know of 2801 vs 2811; are you asking about other individual control "concepts" implemented in a string of LEDs ?

[Mee_n_Mac]

Adafruit sells some strings based on the LDP8803/8806 IC and there's some Arduino libraries for it.
http://www.adafruit.com/products/306
There's also a TM1803 IC that I know nothing about. Looks like a W2811 clone ?
http://www.users.on.net/~avd/acl/TM1803.pdf
Adafruit also has some strips using the HL1606 IC
http://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/HL1606E.pdf

[Chupa]

Does anyone know of strings of these lights with other diviner IC options?

Diviner IC options ??

From your post you know of 2801 vs 2811; are you asking about other individual control "concepts" implemented in a string of LEDs ?

My fault. I meant driver!
I am just looking for other ICs that are beuing used to make the "Christmas lights" style individuality addressable LEDs strings.

Adafruit sells some strings based on the LDP8803/8806 IC and there's some Arduino libraries for it.
http://www.adafruit.com/products/306
There's also a TM1803 IC that I know nothing about. Looks like a W2811 clone ?
http://www.users.on.net/~avd/acl/TM1803.pdf
Adafruit also has some strips using the HL1606 IC
http://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/HL1606E.pdf

So far its looks like these are the options divided into 1 wire or 2 wire categories:

• One wire
  TM1803 (5V 800Kbps)
  WS2811 (5V 800Kbps)
  
  Two wire
  LPD6803 (5V 15MHz)
  WS2801 (5V 25MHz)
  LPD8803 (5V 20MHz)
  LPD8806 (same as above with 6 chan)
  HL1606 (w/ latch)

I still can not find that TI chip that I stumbled across the other day.. I guess its not used very much.

[Mee_n_Mac]

Here's a link that has a fairly good table in it.
http://code.google.com/p/fastspi/wiki/ChipsetOverview