Am I Connecting the Wires Right on the LED Strip?

If you cut the red and black wires at the same time, you almost certainly blew your cigarette lighter fuse. Your wire cutters created a short circuit between the power wire and the ground wire. Even if you cut them separately, you still may have shorted the power wire if your wire cutters were touching something metal in the car when you made the cut. Check your fuses.

1. Is Fastled.io library suitable for SMD50500 led strip?

No. FastLED is for addressable LEDs (like the WS2812B). Yours are not addressable. You just need to set the colour you want with the PWM outputs of your Arduino. Changing the PWM values is not hard and you do not need a library to do it for you.

2. Want to control 30V LED strip with a microcontroller, any help or ideas?

My favourite way of doing things like this is with the good old ULN2803. It's such a simple chip to use, and you can use it to switch high voltage and current, and even inductive loads.It's available in DIL and SOIC packages

3. How to non-destructively test unknown LED strip?

You can always use a constant current source such as the LM317, 5-10mA setting should do fine then just measure the output voltage. Most DMM's should be able to measure the Vf

4. Is it safe to toggle a led strip powered with 12v ATX PSU line?

This should be fine

5. A question about led strip aquarium lights?

It relies upon plenty on what sort of LED they used. If that's a small tank it may be all you pick. I illiminate 2 5 gallon tanks utilising LED table lamps i offered at a branch shop. It has 18 LEDs in clusters of three around a 4-inch diameter circle. it works super for my 5-gallon tanks, the two one in all that are planted. For moon lights, they oftentimes use blue LEDs particularly of white, so this could surely be to simulate sunlight hours. the only thank you to correctly known for specific whether it is going to artwork is to attempt it

6. question about led strip to home power?

LED strips use 12 V, which means you need a step-down transformer and a DC supply. I suggest showing to an electrician, before use. He/she will easily check and let you know. *it is also possibly designed for the mains, but that is not recommended for a fish tank at that high voltage, directly.

7. Can I wire a red LED strip into my rear tail lights?

Fix the strip of leds were u want them and just run the (-) wire to rear light wiring loom, splice the earth wire and twist em together followed by electrical tape to wrap up. Then run the () wire to the same loom but to a positive feed splice wire twist together then tape her up. When you turn on headlights the leds (should) lol illuminate..... Hope this helps

8. Will more watts/amps burn my LED strip [duplicate]

Will this burn my LED strips if i do not use the whole 60A?No. The LED's wo not take more current unless you also raise the voltage. The Amps per meter stays the same.However, a short circuit will cause a fire.

9. LED strip brightness and its measurement - did I get ripped off?

You are measuring the Illuminance and comparing it to the Luminous Emittance - two very different things.Illuminance is the amount of light that falls on your sensor.Luminous Emittance is the amount of light sent out by the LED. You have to remember that the light emitted from the LED is sent out over a cone of 120, so the closer your sensor is to the LED the more of the light will fall on it, and the less will miss it.At the moment you are measuring a small portion of the actual light - just what shines direct on your sensor, and a small amount reflected by the inner surface of your "box".You would achieve the best measurement if you could ensure that 100% of the emitted light fell on 100% of the surface of your sensor, and the only real way of doing that would be to have a sensor the same dimensions as the point of light in the center of the LED.