How long will the battery last?

A 5,000 mAh pack on 3 m of single-color strip: about 4.2 hours. The math for every strip and pack, from the app’s own figures.

The answer

3 m single-color strip on a 5,000 mAh pack: ≈ 4.2 h

The strip’s draw per metre decides it: single color about 0.4 A/m, analog RGB about 0.6 A/m at max, addressable Neopixel about 1 A/m at full white. Three metres of single color draw 3 × 0.4 = 1.2 A, and a 5 Ah pack holds 5 ÷ 1.2 ≈ 4.2 h.

View the mathamps = A/m · metres hours = Ah ÷ amps

The app’s own numbers: white-full is the ceiling, never the plan; a dimmed preset at 40% reads just as bright on a con floor and roughly doubles the night.

The honest plan

Never plan on full white: the dimmer presets are the plan. A 3 m addressable strip can want 3+ amps at full white, so plan the 40% preset, inject power every 2 metres of strip, and keep the data wire short. The lab runs this same math against your exact strip and pack, and the wearable LED guide carries the wiring rules.

📊 The lab’s calculator 💡 The wearable guide

Run it on your strip

Full-white hours = pack Ah ÷ strip amps. The app’s dimmer line: at the 40% preset, plan roughly double the full-white number.