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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Wiring up a Spinner

« on: July 17, 2016, 02:50:27 AM »

Yeah,

My spinner is working.  I went with using a data line coming back from the end of each arm with power going into each arm from the center.  In my model I have defined it as a 10 are spinner with 17 LEDS per arm and number of strings as 1 with a total LED count of 170.

Is there any way to make my spinner actually spin.  So far I have been able to use the standard effect but can not seem to create a spinning effect.

Any ideas?

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Wiring up a Spinner

« on: July 15, 2016, 06:54:45 AM »

Thank you all for your advise. 

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Wiring up a Spinner

« on: July 15, 2016, 12:33:43 AM »

Hi,
I have just made a 10 arm spinner.
I need some advise on the best way to wire up my pixels so I can use the spinner model in XLights.
The total number of pixels will be 160, giving me 16 pixels per arm.
I am planning to use one continuous string of pixels, extending the wire between the tips of the arms where necessary and injecting power if needed.
Any advise would be appreciated.

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Nutcracker Effects / Re: Flame effect on candles

« on: December 12, 2014, 05:46:31 PM »

Thank you for the suggestions.  I have tried both but nothing changes.  I have also noticed that the first candle body is doing the correct effect of green and red bars and the correct flame effect on the wick, but the other 3 candles are doing something different, however under Nutcracker I applied this effect to all candles.
I am stumped as to why this is happening.  My cable lengths to each candle are the same (under 3 metres) so power drop shouldn't be an issue.  I am using SanDevice E682 pixel controller with a 30amp power supply and only using a total of 8 outputs of the controller.

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Nutcracker Effects / Flame effect on candles

« on: December 12, 2014, 04:22:02 AM »

Hi,

I've just added 4 six foot candles to my display.  Each candle has 16 nodes in the body and 4 nodes in the wick.  A string length of 20 nodes is used for each candle.

In nutcracker I have set up my models as 4 candle bodies and 4 wicks.  This should allow me to run a continue flame effect on the wicks and vary the effects on the bodies.

Below is my definition.

CandleBody1    16 nodes   Channels    1   to   48
Wick1              4 nodes     Channels   49   to   60
CandleBody2    16 nodes   Channels   61   to   108
Wick2              4 nodes     Channels   109   to   120
CandleBody3    16 nodes   Channels   121   to   168
Wick3              4 nodes     Channels   169   to   180
CandleBody4    16 nodes   Channels   181   to   228
Wick4              4 nodes     Channels   229   to   240

The effect I am running on the wicks is flame effect with yellow white and red.  The first candle wick works perfectly and only flickers using red, yellow and white.  However all the other wicks are showing a pink and purple effect.  I can not understand why when I have applied the same effect across all the wicks.

Any suggestions?

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Nutcracker Models / Re: Preview Tab

« on: December 09, 2014, 01:25:45 AM »

Thank you all.

The problem is now solved.  I had created an animation sequence. 

Thank you for your feedback.

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Nutcracker Models / Preview Tab

« on: December 08, 2014, 10:24:15 PM »

Hi,

Just started playing around with Xlights/Nutcracker and have come across my first hurdle. 
I have set up a megatree with 4800 channels, 4 candy canes each using 48 channels and 4 candles with separate models for the wicks.  The candles use 60 channels for each candle body and 12 channels for each wick.

Under nutcracker I have created 5 rows of timing each being 10 second intervals.  This should be a total of 50 seconds.

The issue I have is when I save and go back to the preview tab,  Every thing appears as it would but only plays for 10 seconds.

What am I missing?