Skipping Channels

[babybear]

Ok now starting to setup my models for next season. As I assign channels to each I know how they are going to be plugged into which receiver boards. Does it hurt by skipping a 1000 channels between  receiver boards/3 to 4 models? My show will use 23314 total channels. In my set up screen I will set it to 63 universes  32256 channels.
With the large gaps will this slow things down or should I tighten things up. 

[keithsw1111]

Its not really necessary if you go with #universe:1 as your start channel numbering scheme. You can reorder all your outputs later and xlights will work out your start channels. Using chaining where models are physically wired together.

[babybear]

See last year I had added a small model  in the middle of all my other models. and with out the holes I had to re number everything Including the controller. I did not plan ahead well enough. Now this year with the auto populate of the controller this might be easier. Thinking of how easy just add a model, channels and string assignment,  Just wanting to know if this hurts anything.

[keithsw1111]

If you don't use absolute start channels then you don't need to do the renumbering. XLights will do it for you.