Servo power for led

Technical Electrical
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Can we use the 6v power rail next to the pwm pins to power a 5v ws2812 led strip?

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so 1745 had this set up for Dripping Springs.

we routed the PWM from the RoboRIO into the input of a 6v Servo Power Module (to keep the LED Load off of the RoboRio)

We then used some 221s to splice on a PWM connector to a set of WS2812s and pulled that into the output of the SPM.

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We want to only use about 40 leds, can we use the roborio’s 6v regulator without the SPM?

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I’m not sure what the voltage tolerance is on the WS2812’s. If they’re designed for 5V, I would recommend you use the 5V DIO power instead, or pull 5V off of the VRM.

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