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Subject: Declining datasheet quality
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A colleague teaching a STEM course asked me for some details on WS2812's.
Digging through the datasheets I've been able to find seems like they
are sold only to hobbyists -- or, at least not to folks who have to
*design* with them!

I can't seem to find any specification of Icc -- at MAX (255.255.255)
intensity and "dark" (0.0.0).

Nor anything giving thermal characteristics of the package beyond
ambient (70C) and max junction temperature (80C) -- I suspect it
wouldn't be hard to melt the things if they dissipate any
appreciable amount of power!

Is this the "typ" trend taken to its logical extreme (where we
don't really care how it MIGHT work in a given environment, beyond
"try it and see"?)