News

04 Aug

16-bit Grayscale Revolution in Compact Addressable Lighting HD108 2020

HD108 2020 LED Chip: 16-bit Grayscale Revolution in Compact Addressable Lighting In the fast-evolving world of addressable LEDs, the HD108 2020 LED Chip emerges as a game-changer, redefining precision, compactness, and performance. Engineered by New Star LED, this 2020 SMD RGB chip integrates cutting-edge 16-bit grayscale technology, ultra-high refresh rates, and seamless synchronization—making it the ultimate choice for professionals and enthusiasts seeking next-level lighting control.Unrivaled Technical Prowess: Beyond 8-bit Limitations At the core of the HD108 2020 lies its 16-bit grayscale (65536 levels per [...]

By News , , , , , Read more...
29 Jul

DC12V RGBW Pixel LED Chip with two data cable WS2815 RGBW LED

WS2815 RGBW LED Strip: Professional-Grade Addressable Lighting Solution Elevate your lighting projects with the WS2815 RGBW LED Strip—a cutting-edge addressable lighting solution that combines vibrant color dynamics, industrial-grade reliability, and unparalleled flexibility. Designed for both DIY enthusiasts and professional installations, this 12V LED strip redefines what’s possible in dynamic lighting, offering RGBW color control, breakpoint continuous transmission, and long-distance performance that outperforms traditional 5V alternatives like the WS2812B. Unmatched Technical Superiority The WS2815 RGBW LED Strip stands out with a suite of advanced features engineered for precision [...]

By News Read more...
05 Jul

16 Bit LEDs make the world more beautiful

As the human eye can only discern about 10 million different colors, this sounds like a lot. But if you consider that a neutral (single color) gradient can only have 256 different values, you will quickly understand why similar tones in an 8-bit image can cause artifacts. Those artifacts are called posterization. Similarly the 16-bit setting (BPC) would result in 48-bits per pixel (BPP). The available number of pixel values here is mind boggling (2^48). More than 16 million times [...]

By News Read more...
05 Jul

The difference between 8-bit and 16-bit ?

’BIT DEPTH’ AND ‘BIT SIZE’ A ‘bit’ is a computer term for data storage. It can only contain two values, typically 0 or 1. 8-bit simply means the data chunk is 8 bits in total (or 2 to the power of 8, as each bit can be either ‘1’ or ‘0’). This allows for numeric values ranging from 0 to 255. Similarly 16-bit means the data size is 16 bits in total. (or 2 to the power of 16) This allows for [...]

By News Read more...
05 Jul

how to driver HD108 LEDs

Hi everyone, Newstar has a new chip with the same footprint as the APA102/APA107/HD107s. The special thing about it is: it can do 16 bit per channel! It is also superior to the (already pretty great) APA102 in two other ways: it has 27KHz PWM and it undestands 3.0V as logic level “HIGH”, so you could drive it at 5V and have 3.3V logic voltage without any tricks. 16bit is probably a major change to FastLED, but I think it [...]

By News Read more...
28 Feb

RGB vs RGBW LED Strip

RGB vs RGBW LED StripRGB LED strip has been around for a while now and has opened the door to previously unheard-of lighting possibilities, allowing not only a wide range of customisable colours but also the ability to cut and join any length to create totally unique shapes. In response to popular demand though, there’s now a new kid on the block, RGB+W, which adds an extra white chip into the mix. Why might you need this? Read on. What’s [...]

By News Read more...
26 Mar

HD108 2020 LED Display

Customer used HD108 2020 addressable LEDs to make one big transparent led display, looks great! (Newstar is the orginal IC factory, they named NS108, we bought their 108 IC to make LEDs, so named “HD108”)HD108 2020 transparent led display video

By News Read more...
26 Mar

About HD107s, HD108, APA107, APA102 and SK9822

Do you know the difference of HD107s, HD108, APA107, APA102 and SK9822? APA102: 20+ kHz PWM, 8bit 256 grayscale APA107: 9 kHz PWM, 8bit 256 grayscale HD107s: 27kHz PWM (the upgrade of APA107), , 8bit 256 grayscale HD108: 27kHz PWM, 16bit 65536 high grayscale SK9822: 4.7 kHz PWM, 8bit 256 grayscale Newstar study the APA107/HD107S/HD108 based on APA102 technology, so APA107, HD107S and HD108 are same protocol with APA102, same pcb/same controller, can replace APA102 directly. And APA107 is better than SK9822, but almost same cost. HD107S is much better APA102, [...]

By News Read more...
25 Mar

HD108 LED details

HD108 pixel RGB led used Newstar’s 108 IC, so we named “HD108”, Newstar’s model number is Ns108. HD108 LEDs it is each output channel can output 16-bit (65536 Level) High gray-scale adjustable linear current LED chip Brief of HD108  LED HD108 is the fastest 16bit 65536 digital pixel led HD108 -it is a update of HD107S led, PWM is same, but color is more complete. Now in the market only has 3kinds pixel leds with 16-bit (65536 Level) High grayscale, HD108, APA102-65536 and SK9826 HD108 led has PWM [...]

By News Read more...
25 Mar

HD108 LED compare APA102 LEDs

According to Paul Stoffregen’s Articles on December 6, 2017December 7, 2017, we know the APA102 LEDs strips have the problem at 24 MHz, usually after 150 to 250 LEDs. But why?  Here’s his attempt to investigate:One tempting explanation is signal quality problems due to horribly messy unterminated wiring carrying high speed signals, as in this photo! But it turned out to be a more fundamental timing problem.In this test, a Teensy 3.2 runs the FastLED “Cylon” example with this line:LEDS.addLeds<APA102,11,13,RGB,DATA_RATE_MHZ(24)>(leds,NUM_LEDS);NUM_LEDs was set to [...]

By News Read more...