user18429: I know this is probably a little bit basic but I need SERIOUS help with using my new led strip. You can see here the type of strip I have, and the packet.



It's difficult because it looks slightly different to all the other ones I've seen in tutorials so I don't really know where to start now...All I've done is cut off the ends of the wires already on there and replace them with the regular pins that I can use on the Arduino and breadboards too. Where do I have to go from here? Are there any code libraries I need to use?

user18850: As far as I understand the DAT (Green wire) is a digital data wire. Try the following:
1. VCC to +5V pin
2. GND to GND pin
3. DAT to 2 Digital pin.
Then try to change the state of the 2 digital pin from high to low and see if anything happens... That's what I would start out with.

user47423: I had the same issue, in every example you see wiring diagrams with 3 wires, and my ledstrip had 5 wires, but it seems the two red wires (5v) are connected and the two white wires (gnd) are connected to eachother, so basicly you have 3 wires like in every wiring diagrams  what's out there 

18429: <p>I know this is probably a little bit basic but I need SERIOUS help with using my new led strip. You can see here the type of strip I have, and the packet.</p>

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<p>It's difficult because it looks slightly different to all the other ones I've seen in tutorials so I don't really know where to start now...All I've done is cut off the ends of the wires already on there and replace them with the regular pins that I can use on the Arduino and breadboards too. Where do I have to go from here? Are there any code libraries I need to use?</p>
 18850: <p>As far as I understand the DAT (Green wire) is a digital data wire. Try the following:
1. VCC to +5V pin
2. GND to GND pin
3. DAT to 2 Digital pin.</p>

<p>Then try to change the state of the 2 digital pin from high to low and see if anything happens... That's what I would start out with.</p>
 47423: <p>I had the same issue, in every example you see wiring diagrams with 3 wires, and my ledstrip had 5 wires, but it seems the two red wires (5v) are connected and the two white wires (gnd) are connected to eachother, so basicly you have 3 wires like in every wiring diagrams  what's out there </p>
