How I made my seed pixel mega tree. I chose to use seed pixels because they are cheaper and light weight compared to standard bullet node 5v pixels everyone else is using.
Hi Mark, thanks for the video and information. I'm interested in some details of your junction box. Is this something you made or something you purchased.
Hi Mark, thanks for the video and information. I'm interested in some details of your junction box. Is this something you made or something you purchased.
The junction boxes at the bottom of cheap DETA electrical conduit boxes from Bunnings (a Hardware store in AU/NZ). I used end caps and PG7 glands for the power/data in. The centre has a larger gland with 5 pig tails coming out.
The pig tails are very cheap ones off AliExpress.
I used 4-pin connectors for the lights. Inside each junction box the pig tails data-in/out is connected between strand connectors.
Thanks for the explanation. It really looks cool. Because of your video and review of the seed pixels I'm looking at using them for some new drive thru arches. One issue I have is how to power all the different arches without needing to add multiple controllers.
Alternate nodes does certainly help with powering strings of pixels.
Drive through arches can be modelled as a 2D matrix and alternate nodes selected.
It depends on how many pixels per port you want to use before adding another controller... My entire show ran off one F48v3, 2022 is about 4,300 pixels total. The v3 can handle 16,384 so I have plenty of room to expand!
