Sean Meighan
General => Lights => Topic started by: bravado67 on April 06, 2016, 05:46:14 PM
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I have assembled 8 ChromaFlakes with Square RGB nodes. I have two pixels left on each string. Should I leave them on there and cover or cut them off? Seems if I wanted to I could continue one prop to another since it only uses 48 pixels. I assume the two left over pixels will not turn on during the show since they are not included in the layout.
Ron
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I cut mine off so that I would have a couple of spares in case a single node went out somewhere. I put 3 pin waterproof connectors on both ends and run 2 snowflakes connected together per output using a single port off on an F16v1. I only had 4 flakes last year so that was 2 ports, now I'm going to 8 so will need 4 ports. Each hangs beneath an arch. Had 6 arches and put the 4 snowflakes on the middle 4, now going to 8 arches. My arches use landscape edging and also use 48 nodes each which was a nice number if I wanted to use a 6 or 8 node grouping, but I did not use the grouping. Xlight is so great for both the arches and the snowflakes. I also keep one spare 48 node string ready to go for backup. May put all the arches and the flakes on an F8 this year and repurpose the F16v1.
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Cut them off for spare replacements.