Discontinued: Matek 2812 LED Controller V2 for Racing Drones – 4 Channels 2-6S
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The Matek 2812 LED Controller V2 allows you to chain up to 48 LEDs together via 4 separate control channels.
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Product EOL – discontinued 2025. Alternative product: PandaRC WS2812 LED Strip Controller 2-6S
If you are looking to add LED lighting to your racing drone the Matek 2812 lighting systems provides a neat plug and play solution. The setup consist of the Matek 2812 LED Controller (this product) and RGB LED Strips available separately – here. The controller boasts seven colour options and seven flashing modes. It has four output channels, so one for each arm on a quadcopter and supports control of up to 48 LEDs in total (12 per channel).
The controller can be powered directly from your LiPo (2-6S) so you don’t need to worry about blowing the BEC on your FC or PDB. Finally, as the Matek 2812 has its own integrated MCU and push button for control, it can be use independently of a flight controller. Alternatively, if you want to control its functions remotely via your radio control or even dynamically in response to throttle input, then you can connect it with your FC to setup PWM channel forwarding.
Features:
- Controls up to 48 LEDS.
- Supports 7 Colours and 7 Blink Styles.
- Push button makes it easy to change colour/functions without the need to use any software.
- Integrated MCU reduces the load on your flight controller.
- Supports PWM channel forwarding to dynamically change LED behaviour based on stick inputs, or switch on your R/C controller.
- Compatible with 30x30mm stacks making it easy to mount.
A choice of 4 LED or 6 LED strips are available and can be programmed to suit your style. LED Sets are not included with the main board and must be purchases separately – HERE.
- Input: 6-30v (2-6s)
- BEN 5v 2.5A output
- Options: 7 x colors, 7 x blinking modes
- Output Channels: 4
- LED supported: Max 48
- Mounting Holes: 30.5mm dia. 3mm
- Size: 36x13mm
- Weight: 2.5g
Included:
- 1x Matek 2812LED Controller V2
Questions and answers of the customers
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I hooked the led controller up. I was wondering, when I connect the pwm channel to the LED channel, can I controll the LEDS with the LED tab in betaflight??
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They do support BetaFlight PWM control via channel forwarding, see this video for a demonstration of the setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsvEkqUC3g8
How to light your multirotor: Lighting is obviously a necessity for nighttime flying, however it’s also really helpful when flying in daylight. Unlike helicopters, multicopters typically lack defining features to help with orientation; lighting is therefore a great solution. It makes most sense to employ a navigational lighting setup – Red on the Port (left) side, Green on the Starboard (right) side and a white strobe astern. When it comes to selecting your lights there are lots of options: LEDs, HPLEDs (High power LEDs), Strip lights and Strobes. Regular LEDs are inexpensive and come in an array of colours. While they consume little power, LEDs are best suited to nighttime applications as they are usually too dim to be seen in bright daylight. Alternatively the next generation of LEDS, namely HPLEDs and CREE LEDs are much brighter. They can be driven by much greater currents meaning that some can emit over 1000 lumens. At night they can be seen for miles, but more importantly they are visible in bright daylight. Since overheating is destructive, HPLEDs must be mounted on a heat sink to allow for heat dissipation. Both regular and HP LEDs are easy to wire up – however note that LEDs will only light up with correct electrical polarity and that they have a maximum current rating which must not be exceeded. To limit the amount of current through an LED a suitable resistor should be used. Strips lights are fun when it comes to night flights and are fantastic for orientation purposes. Some can be powered/controlled with an LED RGB Driver to cycle between different modes and colours. LEDs of all types can be turned into a strobe by using a suitable controller, strobes have the added bonus of low power consumption. The key to all lighting installations is to think about voltage and current requirements, a voltage regulator/UBEC will usually be necessary to help meet this requirements. Finally it is advisable to power lights from a separate battery to your flight battery.
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