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Hi Dave
You originally quoted WS2814 which has 3 wires, Red-Pos, white-Ground (-), Green data.
Now you have a WS2805 which has 4 wires. At a guess I would say you connect R, W, G the same as WS2814. I don’t what “BIN” is, you will have to find out.

I might point out that changing this sort of thing mid stream is not benefiting anyone, particularly those trying to help you.
Cheers Bob

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Yeah sorry for the confusion, as I dived deeper into the rabbit hole original plans were upgraded.

Main difference is ws2805 has CCT, so I believe the extra wire is for that. I’ve seen a video and they had both blue and green plugged into the data connection, though it didn’t show the CCT component…guess I’ll experiment Wednesday when the controller arrives.

Thanks to everyone who has replied to my questions

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Hi Dave

What is that??
Cheers Bob

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White lights, ie cool, warm, etc.

FYI, have been told I just put both blue and green into data and it should work. :crossed_fingers:t2:

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Hi Dave
Thanks. If I had any reason to use one of these strips I suppose i would have looked it up. As I don’t think I will be doing that I did not bother.

Probably correct as it looks like they are both data lines. Could get some interesting results. Please let us know the outcome.
Cheers Bob

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DIn and Bin can probably be considered the same - it depends on the strip. You can take advantage of the difference if you are using multiple strips - see
arduino - Is it good to wire WS2813 LED strip DI and BI together?

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Hi Jeff
Interesting link. It would appear that this connection is only made when daisy chaining strips and should be left floating on the first strip. The way that circuit as drawn pretty much explains it all.

That means that Daves information about it being to do with white colour temperature (Warm, cool, etc) is incorrect. and there are a couple of conflicting replies on that link too.I like the idea of “Bin” being a back up the best, and leave the first string floating.
Learn something every day. Thanks again for that.
Cheers Bob