Recent content by merryoncherry

Let's take off the table anything you could do with expensive load sharing PSUs. Then yes, 2 is the limit for attatching to the Baldrick 8. As circled. In rounded-off numbers, an LRS-350-12 puts out 30A and the board takes 4x7.5=30A. Nicely balanced. 7.5A will run a lot of pixels. And 7.5A...

What kind of pixels and what voltage? 1. Splitting a board into multiple smaller PSUs is pretty common. The number is limited by the comtroller board, which will have terminals for groups of (generally) 4 or 8. The small PSUs are popular because they're cheap, but you can use whatever. Use...

Agree. If it happened to you, it's a thing. A pixel that flakes out after a while, or after the voltage drops due to the other pixels being lit, takes out the part of the string that follows. It happens, different details for some kinds of pixels than others. One recommendation... if you...

Well, it is not "xlights" or the PSU if everything else is working. I will start with things that are less likely to help but easier to check. (Generally, not sure how thorough you mean by "working", if that means "lighting up" or exactly right in a complex case.) And apologies if you already...

This is true. It will change color, flash, twinkle, show up/down movement, do stripes and swirls, but no, it won't do images very well.

You can certainly make a tree of 6x50. Hesitate to call it mega at 300 nodes total. You might not even need PI depending on the pixels. 12V bullets, for example, you just plug both ends of the string into power and you're good. A lot of 5V seeds would need PI, so you would do that each time...

You should not need to inject power (though you can put it at both ends if you like). The "backbone" across the top ensures that the current path to the lights is short, so you don't have too much thin seed wire in the string and the voltage won't sag as badly as it does with, say, 100...

Generally agree with CPA. In the USA it is not easy to get the PVC foam board, all the US vendors are cutting coro, which is much lighter, easier to work with, and performs well overall. I do have a few PVC stars (imported from Ink Creations and distributed by Your Pixel Store). They're much...

I would say they work like mini trees, column matrix, pixel pole, mega tree... all of those things flatten out to a matrix that is tall and skinny, so the same effects are suitable.

There are a lot of things you could do that would work. I'd probably put a pigtail on the end of each letter and use the 3-core 5' xConnect that costs $2/ea. This would allow flexibility in disassembly and powering, but also I have piles of those things sitting here already and wouldn't have...

Is it a tree model? First thought is the same thing you;'d do with a 360 degree tree or a matrix. Have been doing this with the tree out front that has a net wrapped around, same shape.

It has a lot to do with how you want them to look. If the message is important, on solid color that matches the sequence (like I do w/ tune to - pick one color out of the sequence for TUNE TO and another for the 97.3). Whole house group + candy canes mapping also works well in purchased sequences.

I mean, no escaping that they take up space. But I stack them in the attic (where there is not much vertical clearance), and do "coatrack" style in the shed where there is 2.5-3m of vertical. One section single layer for big stuff, one section double. Just zip tie to horizontal pipe and slide...

1. Hand-me-down AV Receiver. (Since I have them under the porch, I have speaker wire running under the porch, thru the sill, and AVR in the basement where there is no weather.) 2. Fosi Audio BT20A, which is small enough to tuck in an enclosure and field deploy (the garden speakers and sub use...

Cool! How are you controlling the canes? I use regular patio speakers, tucked under the porch (that is not essential): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00096ZRJ4 The other thing I have is something like this, but I'm sure the model I have was cheaper: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09P4BJ9SV