DMX512 RGBW LED using international standards DMX512 protocol products, is max485 module inside the dmx512 IC and with 4 colors in 1 RGBW 5050 led to be the light source,so, it is different from other DMX led strips. It is 5 wires DMX RGBW led strips, the transfer rate and transfer distance is better than 4 wires DMX led strip on the market. It can connect to the DMX console without decoder and with more colors programmable for DMX digital led strips. one and multi point damage does not affect other parts of the strips and continue work. So no matter what or how many IC broken,the led strip will work normally.