Sean Meighan
General => My Show Setup => Topic started by: bhosted on December 01, 2015, 08:33:38 PM
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Lights are on . Thanks Holidaycoro , love the new V2 Alphapix controller. There are 7100 lights on the front of the house using strips and 1800 on the tree with the singers on the side.
More to come, Carry On.
https://youtu.be/BfY46eItOmk
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Impressive. love some of your morphs you did, tutorial someday?
are they ws2811 strips so 3 nodes a pixel and 30 nodes a meter? or did you go higher in density?
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All of the strips are 30/10 2811 5 meter 12v. I injected power into ever other strip then sent all the injected cables back to the power distribution panel in made. I have one 1250 watt gold rated PS running everything in the front including the controller. They are cut in half for a total of 50 strips 5 meter strips. the size is 21 x 100. Next year I will use 30/30 in the front for higher resolution. I tried to run videos like frosty the snow man using xlights but the 30/10 didn't handle it well.
The biggest problem I had was the wire that I bought off amazon prime. It was 16/2 stranded . I used it for all of the power and then pulled the two strands out using them for data. Sounds easy but the wire was such crap that there was a lot of bleed across the cables causing a lot of interference . I had to rewire. Only buy the UL listed wire. The wire may not have been a problem in just single strands running around the house but there is about 1000 feet of wire in total controlling the matrix. More videos to come.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDT65trqo9M