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Aqua Computers Introduces New RGB LED Controller

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Throughout the last years Aqua Computer, a German-based water cooling manufacturer, got many requests for a LED controller and has invested a lot of time in developing an innovative LED controller. The result of this development is the "farbwerk".

The farbwerk is a RGB LED controller with four independent channels. Due to the high processing performance it is possible to display natural and smooth color transitions. The farbwerk offers 13-bit color resolution of 8192 steps per primary color. Because of the high resolution even color transitions with low brightness settings are almost continuously.



The device can be configured via USB with the aquasuite software and a Bluetooth enabled variant also allows to use a smartphone for example. Besides this four analog sensor ports allow automatic color changes by temperature (-40 °C to +100 °C), voltage (0 to 3.3V) or resistance (100 Ohm to 25kOhm). In this case, an USB connection is only necessary for setup and can be disconnected once the configuration is saved in the farbwerk.

The operation and function set new standards as well there are a number of different ways how each channel can be adjusted. The intuitive interface controls of the aquasuite software allow a precise selection of the color and adjustments for the intensity and brightness. Colors can be set manually or rotated automatically. In addition a brightness curve can be defined to add a pulsating effect.

The communication between the aquasuite and the tools HWiNFO, AIDA and Open Hardware Monitor allows to use many different system values to control the channels. For example, the CPU load, GPU temperature or even current download speed can be used to automatically adjust the colors.

Customers that already own an aquaero 5/6 fan controller will be able to use Aqua Computers aquabus interface to control each single channel (there are three per RGB channel, 12 in total)

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Nice I may buy one just not the SMD strips themselves because they will likely have a crazy markup like most of these SMD LED kits.
 
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