What is the difference between RGB, RGBW and RGB-CCT LED strip lights?

RGB Led Strip Lights are colour changing strips, but there are different types of RGB. The most usuals are normal RGB, RGBW and RGB-CCT. But, what are the differences between those RGBs? Let’s have a look.

RGB models provide a 16M spectrum of colours. It can generate 16M colours and it is possible thanks to combining the three led primary colours. With the controller you can change different settings for the colours, such as saturation, brightness… Achieving the perfect colour for you. RGB Led Strips are made of 4 core wires.

What is the bad point about the RGB strips? The only problem with these strips is that they don’t have a real white colour, the white colour of RGB is not real, is generated with the combination of the 3 separate LED diodes; Red, Green and Blue, achieving a really similar colour as white but not real white.

What about RGBW? The RGBW model has a real White colour, but how? Well, RGBW chips are composed by 4 mini led chips built in one, it has Red, green, blue and an additional chip with white colour, it can be warm white (3000K) , natural white (4000K) or cold white (6000K), depending on the model of strip or the use of the light. Obviously RGBW leds are used when you need a real white colour for specific tasks or only for decoration purposes, it depends. And this model is made with 5 core wires for the different diodes.

And the last one, RGB CCT. These LED strips are the most complete leds, it has the full colour spectrum, the colour changing and also an additional  CCT led chip, CCT means that it has both types of white colour, so you can use the whole white spectrum. From Soft Warm (2700K) to Cold White (6500K or even more). It’s composed of 6 core wires and 5 mini led chips all in one; Red, green, blue, and two white chips for the CCT.