Recent content by merryoncherry

Haisstronica marine grade (🙄) solder seals and a butane hand torch, whether it is temporary or permanent. (Note that I live in a relatively cool, dark place.) This has never been the source of any significant number of failures. In the few cases where I soldered and heat shrunk, the...

The vendor of the pixels on the left advertised that his pixels had the thickest wire you could find anywhere, so I sent him this photo. Then he said it was the thickest wire you could possibly put on a 4- wire pixel, so I showed him that the pigtail wire to the first pixel was thicker than the...

Bwahaha - no. We joke about it being CWG (Chinese wire gauge). You will not find anything bigger than 20, a lot of it is 22-24, but you might find seed pixels with as little as 26-27AWG. They do not tell the truth, and nobody does anything about it except laugh. The good pixels will suffer 1...

Wow, I have to keep an eye out for that ... the only pixel I can get delivered right now for ~$.17 is plain resistor pixels from ScottLED (USA).

Analysis paralysis, one of my favorite games. There are so many dimensions one can look at: voltage tolerance, brightness, color reproduction (gamma, RGB vs RGBW WW A UV etc), reliability, efficiency, form factor and other mechanical considerations, price, availability, connectors, protocol...

That is entirely true. Other than Ali / manufacturer direct as others have mentioned, the only place for US-based stock seems to be YPS. https://yourpixelstore.com/product/new-yps-duo-pixel-12v/ I run a few thousand of the duos. There are reasons 8208 haven't really taken off, despite...

One option is change the effect to "per preview" instead of "default". You can also rotate the model data but that has its own hazards.

They're 3-wire, not 4-wire? (Maybe xLights needs the usual upload to controller and rerender.)

Light up every 20th one green and every tenth one red or something, that will help you see how many meters/pixels pretty quickly and you won't have to manually count them, except the last few if you care to be that accurate.

I used it once a couple years ago. It was helpful, but the pixels have to show up in the video. I assume in this case half of them are on the back of the tree...

Are they counted or not counted?

I would just take note of which controller ports, and how many pixels per string, and which branch they follow. Then, since this is 2D, make a polyline that follows the branches (on background image) and assign that many pixels. You can assign the counts per polyline segment if it ends up off...

Those are zip tie or (other fastener holes) to keep it from falling out if you remove the tension?

How much free space do you have now?

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