Although RGB can produce a colour close to white, a dedicated white LED provides a much purer white tone and allows you the option of an extra warm or cool white chip. The extra white chip also provides extra scope for colour mixing with the RGB chips to create a huge range of unique shades.

Can RGB LED Strip make white?

So, if we look closer, an RGB LED actually consists of 3 small LEDs: a red, green and blue one. By mixing these three colours in various ways all colours can be produced, including white. … While an RGB LED Strip can produce any colour, the warm white light that such a strip can create is only an approximation.

How do you make RGB LED white?

If you’re not interested in actually getting it right mathematically, the simplest thing to do is to shine a “known white” reference lamp onto a white piece of paper, and shine your LED right next to it, and adjust the three gains until three different human beings agree that the two spots of light have the same color.