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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Getting all strings to work on Mega Tree

« on: December 01, 2020, 02:33:12 PM »

Yes, 8 strings of 100.

50 up / 50 down, so I have a 180 degree tree with 16 strips of "50"

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Boscoyo 24 x 48 - 2" matrix with 100 pixels strands

« on: December 01, 2020, 02:31:30 PM »

Is it possible to break it up in 100s since I am using 100 string pixels?  I want to avoid (if at all possible) cutting and splicing the pixel string to run to a new channel on the controller.

Say 600 & 552?

Just curious if you can individually select the start channel of a string in a model.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Boscoyo 24 x 48 - 2" matrix with 100 pixels strands

« on: December 01, 2020, 09:24:01 AM »

This is my first year doing this.

I think that I will have to split the pixels data connection.  I have a Falcon F16v3 and I'm pretty sure that it will only accept 1024 pixels per channel.

Assistance will be needed in XLights in how to do this.  I will try to figure it out and post a snapshot

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Getting all strings to work on Mega Tree

« on: December 01, 2020, 08:01:12 AM »

I had this issue last night.  I used 100 pixel strings (so 50 up, then 50 down) and everything looked funky on the actual tree but Xlights showed it perfectly fine.

I have 16 strands (800 pixels total)  This says you have 800 pixels

In Xlights this is what I had to set:


                    Type:  Round
                Degrees:  180
               Rotation:  3 (don't know why)
           Spiral Wraps:  0
     Bottom/Top Ratio:  6
            Perspective:  2
              # Strings:  16
            Nodes/String:  100 This says you have 1600 pixels
          Strands/String:  2
       Starting Location:  Bottom Right

See red above how many pixels do you have?

Yes, I do.  I guess I didn't really think about the calculation.  I changed it to 50 and it still worked perfectly.  Thanks for catching that for me!

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Boscoyo 24 x 48 - 2" matrix with 100 pixels strands

« on: November 30, 2020, 01:58:52 PM »

In Xlights, can someone let me know if this is the proper way to model a matrix with (1152 pixels) that is a 24x48 mesh, meaning 24 rows and 48 pixels per row.  (horizontal setup)

Direction:  Horizontal
# Strings:  1
Nodes/String:  1152
Strands/String:  24
Starting Location:  bottom left

I really hope that this is correct.  My 11 year old will be very bummed if he has to yank out pixels.  He did

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Getting all strings to work on Mega Tree

« on: November 30, 2020, 01:51:27 PM »

I had this issue last night.  I used 100 pixel strings (so 50 up, then 50 down) and everything looked funky on the actual tree but Xlights showed it perfectly fine.

I have 16 strands (800 pixels total)

In Xlights this is what I had to set:


                    Type:  Round
                Degrees:  180
               Rotation:  3 (don't know why)
           Spiral Wraps:  0
     Bottom/Top Ratio:  6
            Perspective:  2
              # Strings:  16
            Nodes/String:  100
          Strands/String:  2
       Starting Location:  Bottom Right