Using Milight RGBW controller on white led strip

[ricorico94]

Hi,

I'd like to control remotely a white led strip (5050) and I believe the Milight environment could be a good choice. However, I did not find milight controller designed for single color (white) led strip. (I found controllers for white led bulbs, but not white strips).
Do you think I could use the milight RGBW controller connected with the 5050 white led strip ?
The target led strip would be 72W (5meters) 5050 leds, thus with 2 wires. I was thinking I could connect only the + of milight controller to the + of the strip and the W channel of milight controller to the second wire of led strip. Each channel of milight controller can go up to 6A, so I guess it should be ok. And then I could use a RGBW remote from milight to force white color..?
Any mistake in my reasoning and any downside ? Any better alternative ?
(I hesitate using a RGBW, because I want a strip with good brightness -it's not just deco it's mainly to light..- I purchased a RGB strip recently, officially providing 6000lumens, but in reality it lights less than a warn white led strip purchased 1 year ago (and rated 4100 lumens).. That's why I tend to a white instead of a RGBW, since I'm afraid the RGBW won't light as much as the "pure" white led strip. Do you know very bright RGBW (or better RGBWW warm white) strips lighting around 1000lumens/meter ? (or at least above 500 lumens per meter) (not too expensive also)

Note 1 : I read often that milight wifi can only control 4 lights. Any workaround to control more than 4 ? (purchasing extra wifi bridge ?)

Note 2 : I measured my led strips: my RGB (rated 72W and 6000lumens) is actually using 2A when set at max brightness and white color with full 5m. My "old" warm white led strip (rated 4100lumens for 72W) uses 1.5A with only 2meters. Seem far from 72W for 5meters in both cases.. Is it normal..?

fyi: my warm white led strip which lights well: http://www.dx.com/p/190042
my RGB strip which does not light well at all.. http://eud.dx.com/product/hml-waterproo ... -844398504

br,
Ricorico94

[exdirectory]

Hi, i did this last night using a milight 4 zone rgbw controller. It seemed to work by connecting just the + and red on the milight controller to the + and - on a white led strip as a test.

Did you do this and has it been ok long term?

[MadBanana]

This should work ok - in fact you could have four separate white strips on the four separate RGBW outputs and control them independently by sending separate values for each of the four outputs. Would need a bit of scripting in Domoticz, but should be doable.