leaping arches channel setup question

[davetv102]

I am adding 8 leaping arches to my display this year and are wondering what is the best way to set up the channels for my display. My display is on the front and side of my house, so I will have four arches on each side meeting at the corner of the house. I will be locating a 6804 with a output to each pair of arches at the same corner of the house that the arches meet at. Should I just start on one side and go to the corner and then continue on the other side of the house or start at the middle and go out or what. I'm thinking getting this right to begin with will help with the sequencing and model setup in Xlights later but am unsure what will be the best way as I will be sequencing the arches separately sometimes and then each side a mirror of the other at times.

[jnealand]

I have 8 arches but all in a row.  From a sequencing standpoint I start at the channel on the far left and assign all channels for all 8 arches sequentially.  From a wiring standpoint you have multiple choices.

1. Connect all arches at the left end of each arch and home run back to the controller.  I do this with my controller in the middle of my arches and I connect two arches together for each output on my controller (2 x 48 = 96 nodes per output).
2. Too save some wire you can also connect the arches on the left end to the physical right end and in the controllers configure them as reversed.  That make them operate from a controller standpoint as if the lowest number channel is on the left even though you are connecting to them on the right.  I have done this in the past as well.

It all depends on where the best place for controller placement and on how you want to run the wires in the yard.  In either case from a seqencing standpoint you start at the first (lowest) channel and go the the last(highest) channel.