Which Pixel Controller is Best?

[Ebuechner]

 Right now I'm waiting for the Falcon V3 to come out so I can see firsthand what everybody is raving about. I have a mix of pixlite and Alphapix running my show but I would like to switch over to just having one brand of controller and use my current controllers as backup or sell some of them. Originally I was using LOR AC controllers but now I've converted over to the Renard plus 32 for the few AC components I still have left.

[markrvp]

Sometimes I think you guys argue out of boredom.  I have a Falcon controller and I recommended it.  But I still stand by my opinion that it would be nice if the items in our hobby were always available so that we end users don't have to carry extra backups of everything (even though I do). 

[bwinter]

While you two are going back and forth I thought I would mention I don't think many people would recommend the AlphaPix.  I own one and I don't think I would ever recommend it.

I've never quite understood this. I've been completely satisfied w my Alphapix-16.  Not
sure what I'm mising, because it did everything I needed and expected.

Moving forward though, I really liked the Pi Hats I ran as well. I think
I would prefer sticking with those in the future, given then price-points vs any controller.

[Phrog30]

I have never owned an alphapix, but do own pixlites, which are basically the same. I would not recommend the pixlite when I could recommend the falcon. I had issues this season where my mini trees were doing weird things. I troubleshoot for an hour or so and ended up replacing the pixlite with a falcon (had as spare). The issues went away. Only thing different was the controller.

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[jem5136]

Thank you everyone for the input. I apologize for not getting back sooner (been a crazy busy few weeks).

I've decided that I will be going with the Falcon controllers, they seem to be the best for my display and from what everyone has said they seem to be very reliable as well.

I'm hoping the V3 board comes out soon so I can order one and start playing around with it lol

[Anthony.Bigda]

While you two are going back and forth I thought I would mention I don't think many people would recommend the AlphaPix.  I own one and I don't think I would ever recommend it.

I'm curious why?  I would always recommend the Falcon over the Alphapix, but the 6 Alphapix controllers I'm using, the 4 my friend Mark B is using, the handful my friend NJ are using, plus the several my friend Fabio uses personally and in professional installations have been rock solid.  Remember, I also have Falcon and Pixlite boards and Falcon are my favorite, but I'll always be fond of how easy the Alphapix is to set up and deploy.

maybe it's because I got the first run of not ready for primetime controllers and I was immediately disappointed with the lack of features that it had. Number one complaint can only change the color order for the whole controller not per output.  only two options for color output RGB or BGR. I tried running 200 pixels off one port and the controller couldn't keep up with fast-moving items. ( I split them in half and it works). Then there's the whole problem that everyone had with random pixels flickering.  and the controller is sensitive to set up, God forbid you set up 512 channels. These are all problems that I didn't have with the PixLite controller that Dave sold just before this. I now refer to it as my BetaPix board.

I run 7 sandevices boards and never had any firmware issues. A lot of the problems people were having this year was the beta version 5 firmware where he was trying to update and tie in some of the falcon features.
But I am planning on picking up a F16 v3 this spring.
I've never had an alphapix and I won't, won't have the hinkspix either. Refuse to do business with holiday Coro.


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