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How to Use LED Controllers

LED Controllers and Dimmers are the brains of your LED lighting. They are required for color control on color changing strip lights and dimmers can be used on single color lighting to adjust the brightness of your light output. Check out these tutorials to learn more about controllers and the different ways you can use them.

How to Wire a Dimmer to your LED Lights

In this tutorial learn how to hook up a PWM Dimmer to your single channel LED Strip Lights and Modules. If you want to have a way to dim your LED lights we have many different types of low voltage PWM dimmers to choose from.

How to Wire a Dimmer to your LED Lights
LED Tutorials- Single Color Signal Amplifier

Hooking up a PWM Dimmer to your single color common anode LED Lights is a pretty straight forward process but if you want to add more lights to your dimmer than the dimmer can handle it is a little more complicated. It is possible using a single channel signal amplifier or an RGB signal amplifier but you must use the channels individually in order to make it work properly. Follow the guide below in order to get a better understanding of how to incorporate both types of signal amplifiers into your single color LED Lights.

LED Tutorials- Single Color Signal Amplifier
LED Tutorials- RGB Controller and Amplifier Install

An RGB Controller is essential to any RGB LED project or system. Hooking up and RGB Controller to your common anode LED Lights is a pretty straight forward process. Incorrect wiring or over driving the controller can result in the product simply not working, flickering lights, and can ultimately damage the product. Follow these simple wiring steps in order to be sure of correct installation.

LED Tutorials- RGB Controller and Amplifier Install
LED Tutorials - DMX Control

Although DMX Control was originally created for stage shows it can also be used in a variety of other applications where an LED user wants complete control over there LED Lighting. In this tutorial you will learn all the components you will need as well as proper installation techniques to start making your LED Lights do exactly what you want them to do through DMX Control.

LED Tutorials - DMX Control
LED Tutorials - ESA Software

DMX Control of your LED Lights is the most technical and powerful ways to control your LED Lights. Lighting scenes are created by computer software and then saved on the DMX Controller for use in what is called Stand Alone Mode, or use away from the computer. Follow this tutorial to see the proper steps to create lighting scenes and save them to your DMX controller for Stand Alone Operation.

LED Tutorials - ESA PRO Software

DMX Control of your LED Lights is the most technical and powerful ways to control your LED Lights. Lighting scenes are created by computer software and then saved on the DMX Controller for use in what is called Stand Alone Mode, or use away from the computer. Follow this tutorial to see the proper steps to create lighting scenes and save them to your DMX controller for Stand Alone Operation.

LED Tutorials - U9 DMX LED Controller

Our ESA (Easy Stand Alone) U9 DMX LED Controller is a perfect controller for both first time DMX users as well as advanced lighting designers. With the ability to control up to 256 DMX channels in Stand Alone mode, or away from the computer, this controller will allow you to create custom lighting scenes for 85 RGB Color changing fixtures or 256 single color fixtures. Operating in live mode from a Mac or PC the U9 can control an entire DMX universe or 170 RGB fixtures. Follow the tutorial below for operational instruction of the U9 DMX LED Controller.

LED Tutorials - STICK3 Ethernet Connection

The STICK3 DMX Controller is the most powerful controller that we sell. One of the greatest features of this controller is the ability to control your LED lights over a wireless network using applications on your smart phone or tablet, or by using a network connection to make changes to your lighting scenes from a network PC with ESA Pro Software. Follow the tutorial below to see how to use the Ethernet connection on your STICK3 DMX Controller.

How to use RDM DMX Control with RDM Manager

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