Determining Pinout for Seed Lights

[@jbhunsaker]

Thanks, John. I appreciate your help with stuff like this.

[@scotholmes]

Is there a way to control each light

[@bradleyskotko7713]

Well explained, thanks for the video. One question. As you stated, you did that in a safe way without endangering your lights so there really was no risk to implementing this same testing strategy with all the pixels at once, so why bother? Unless biasing these backwards would blow them given the voltages used. Is there an advantage to using 2, rather than just 1? Having 2 allows you to observe the data being passed along, but assuming you are feeding the data in the correct side, it should light a single one also. Regardless, the pixels can be salvaged for spares/replacement down the road, so it's no loss either way.

[@darylerwin]

Doesnt one of the wires have a copper trace on it?

[@listentoourlights]

Yes. But unless you know what the copper/gold trace means it doesn't help.

[@maddmaxxawr]

Love your video's, but I hate to be 'that guy' and say it would have been nice to see it NOT be correct on the first try and been able to see what steps would have to be taken to get it correct.

[@ianhannant4353]

I like your videos, but this one is kind of pointless. From my experience 12V seeds are fairly bulletproof, I have tested both 12V 3 Wire and 4 Wire and miswired them in every possible way without damaging them. I am not so sure this is the case for 5V Pixels. I would of liked to see you connect them both ways to show what happens and also with 5 volt pixels and even some smoke. Surely the point of this video would be to show how to figure out which is the correct way around by using a MM with causing any damage. I think the main take a way, is alway cut a couple off and test and don't risk destroying a string.