An-Penta-Mini · getting started

One strip, done right.

The Mini is the easiest board in the line to set up — one supply, one strip, a few minutes of firmware. Here's the whole thing. Got a bigger board? See the Plus or Deca guide.

By Quindor · QuinLED / Intermit.Tech · Updated June 2026

The An-Penta-MiniYour controller and a USB-C cable for the first flash.
A 12–48V supplyOne DC supply matched to your strip, sized for up to 10A total.
An analog stripWhite, dual-white (WW+CW), RGB or RGBCCT at your chosen voltage.
A small screwdriverFor the terminals — that's the only tool you need.

How it all connects

One supply into Power IN; up to five strips on the fused outputs — like a separate white strip per bookcase shelf, each dimmed on its own.

PSU 12–48V DC − + POWER IN An-Penta-Mini ESP32-C3 · ~20 kHz 2 FUSES · PROTECT ALL 5 OUTPUTS L1 · 5AL2 · 5AL3 · 3AL4 · 3AL5 · 3A USB-C five shelves · five outputs · dim each on its own
1

Choose a channel layout

The Mini has five channels: two medium-power (up to 5A, great for white) and three lower-power (up to 3A, great for RGB). Pick the layout that fits your strip:

• 5× white — five separate white zones or temperatures.
• RGB + 2× white — a colour accent plus warm and cool white.
• 1× RGB+CCT — one strip with red, green, blue, warm white and cool white.

Match your strip to the channels: put your warm and cool whites on the two 5A channels, and RGB on the 3A channels.
2

Wire the power and your strip

Feed one 12–48V supply into Power IN + / –, matched to your strip's voltage. Then wire the strip: each positive output is fused, and the channel switches the negative. The terminals are labelled, so it's hard to get wrong.

Check polarity before powering on, and keep your total current under 10A (and within 5A on a single medium channel, 3A on a low-power channel).
3

Flash ESPHome or WLED

For Home Assistant, ESPHome exposes proper white, colour-temperature and RGB light entities — native brightness, CCT and transitions, all over a local API. QuinLED publishes a ready-made An-Penta-Mini ESPHome config — here are the real pins for a tunable-white run on the two 5A channels:

ESPHome · An-Penta-Mini · tunable white
# An-Penta-Mini pins: L1=3 L2=0 L3=1 L4=4 L5=5 · full 12-bit
output:
  - { platform: ledc, pin: GPIO3, frequency: 20000 Hz, id: ww }   # L1 · 5A
  - { platform: ledc, pin: GPIO0, frequency: 20000 Hz, id: cw }   # L2 · 5A

light:
  - platform: cwww
    name: "Shelf white"
    cold_white: cw
    warm_white: ww
    cold_white_color_temperature: 6500 K
    warm_white_color_temperature: 2200 K

Prefer WLED? Flash v0.15-b3 or newer (that's where the higher bit depth lives), set the outputs to PWM RGB+CCT or a multi-white mode, and leave the clock on its flicker-free default. The simplest way to flash or update WLED is QuinLED's web installer at install.quinled.info — it loads the latest An-Penta-ready build straight from your browser.

First flash is over USB-C from the ESPHome or WLED web installer; everything after is over Wi-Fi.
4

Add it to Home Assistant and make it yours

Home Assistant auto-discovers the device; Adopt the ESPHome node (or add the WLED integration) and your light appears locally — no cloud. Set your warm/cool temperatures to match the strip, then save a scene or two — a soft "evening" preset, a bright "tidy up" one — and trigger them from a button or a schedule. The dimming has been smooth, deep and flicker-free at ~20 kHz the whole time.

The Mini has a button input — wire a switch to it and map it to on/off or brightness, right in your config.
Keep going

Stuck on something?

The Mini FAQ covers compact-install questions — hiding the board, single-zone power sizing, dual-white wiring and whether you need Ethernet. Full technical docs are on quinled.info.

Read the FAQ An-Penta-Mini on quinled.info Ask in the Discord