Interesting, in addition to Adafruit selling 10 packs of the individual RGB APA102 LEDs, they now sell 10 packs of warm WWW and cool WWW APA102 LEDs.
Side note: I wish these APA’s were manufactured with the + and - solder points located one on each of the other sides away from the data and clock solder points as it would make for wiring them much easier. Data and clock could go LED to LED to LED down the strip, and + and - could be traces down the strip above and below the led packages.
I don’t get why they don’t combine warm and cool white in one APA led. So one channel warm white, other channel cool. That would be nice to create different color temperatures. Or is it related to the phosphor (2 different types for warm/cool I think)?
The warm or cool temp is indeed based on the phosphor that’s used. They would have to put two on there but I’m sure it could be done.
Yes, that would be great to be able have both or mix from one to the other!