Hello, I have a little Question. I have a Strip of 744 APA102 LEDs.

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Hello,
I have a little Question. I have a Strip of 744 APA102 LEDs. I drive them with standard Datarate on one Pin on an ESP8266. Do I have any advantages, if I split them to 2 or 3 separate Stripes like in the multiple Stripes in one Array Demo… ?

// tell FastLED there’s 60 NEOPIXEL leds on pin 10, starting at index 0 in the led array
FastLED.addLeds<NEOPIXEL, 10>(leds, 0, NUM_LEDS_PER_STRIP);

// tell FastLED there’s 60 NEOPIXEL leds on pin 11, starting at index 60 in the led array
FastLED.addLeds<NEOPIXEL, 11>(leds, NUM_LEDS_PER_STRIP, NUM_LEDS_PER_STRIP);

Thanks,
Lars

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From a performance perspective, probably not. But from a redundancy perspective maybe…If you split them up, and a pixel fails on a strand, only THAT strand will fail

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You could split the LEDs into four, then use parallel output and write the data in 1/4 of the time…

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But isn’t this only for 2812b?

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Sorry, yes you’re right, I wasn’t concentrating…