justified777

I thought I already replied what the issue what before.   I see that I didn't.

My problem was that I didn't tie the ground on the powersupply that powered the LED strip to the ground on the netduino....thus the issues I was having.  Once they were tied together...walla worked like a charm!!!

Okay, so I got it working with the 'uncut' strip.  When I say got it working...didn't change anything I was doing just tried it on the uncut strip and walla, they worked....but....

It seems the values i'm sending should result in uniform colors/combinations and i'm getting totally random colors sporadically throughout....from beginning to end. Any clue?

Good question. So, I connected the negative from the power supply to gnd. Should I actually use the ground from the power supply to go to gnd instead?

Also, these are the waterproof ones, but took the waterproofing off of them.

Thanks guys, and thanks for the code, Juzzer.  I tried that code, and that is what i'm ultimately doing with the other code tries.  These are cut up sections of the LED strip.  I have another 6, full 300 count 5m strips(60 led per 1m) at the office. I'll be trying these later this afternoon(before any cut ups). wish me luck.

oh and they are indeed WS2801..says so right on the chip on the strip