LPD8806 Not Lighting up on one end

[troyco]

Hey Guys,
First time buyer, first time issue.

I recently bought 3 meters of LPD8806 and when I supplied power to the strip one end of the strip seems to fault and not light up. See attached picture.

I have supplied power from both ends and still it seems the same LED's are affected. I am using a 5V 10A switching power supply. I would expect by just supplying the strip with power I should expect that all the lights turn on and default to white?

As this is my first experience with this I didn't want to proceed any further until I know that it is operating as expected.

Thanks

Troy

[adafruit_support_rick]

Don't expect all the LEDs to light up by simply applying power. You should run the strandtest example sketch to test the strand.