RGB extension

[david9651995]

Good evening,

I had not really good day today. Got £100 rgb fancy inteligent strip for customer under kitchen cabinets. Managed to cut it at recommended intervals and join with short cbale all worked OK. I had to join it with 3m 4 core wire and the last bit was not working properly compared to first 2 strips. When I joined the last strip without that 3m cable it worked ok. The problem is I need the cable as there is gap between cabinets. Any suggestion? I have tried different strip and cabke nothing helped.

 

[snowhead]

My guess is the 3mtrs is messing with the comms down the strip.
Try the 3mtrs near the start of the cable and see if it kills everthing after.
Maybe 2 separate cables only using 1 pair in each?
If not then possibly individually screened pairs cable.

 

[Leesparkykent]

Use a separate driver

 

[littlespark]

Agree with additional driver.
3m may be too far for a single driver to manage.
What is the rating of the driver and the tape? (Usually a wattage per metre, multiply by the length of tape you have)
Also how did you attach the extension to the tape? You might have a short across the lines.