Recent content by aplant92

I'd say at least 3 years now? Potentially older as we had a break between doing Christmas lights recently...

Cheers for the help all - I guess the PSU dying was the likely cause here (hopefully nothing I did 😁)

Ah that's good to know! Thanks for looking into it - I was trying a few more things this morning and now the PSU seems completely dead...wondering if that's perhaps not entirely expected given the way it was behaving beforehand. Seems I'm in the market for a new PSU!

So confirming it's a Meanwell SE-600-5 PSU that we're seeing the problem with

I'm not sure how they're contradictory, perhaps phrased poorly - all PSUs I have are the same, just the one powering the mega tree is exhibiting this behavior. Will confirm exactly what Meanwell PSU they are though just so that all the information is out there (and I suppose maybe some insight...

See above 😁

Worth mentioning this is (AFAIK) a meanwell 5v 350w PSU purchased from trusted sources based on the auschristmaslighting PDF guide, as are all the other working PSUs

Yeah so overloading wise shouldn't be an issue - this behavior is observed with only a few strips connected. I am using one of those bunnings garden stake power things - maybe that's providing some dodgy power? Other power supplies don't seem to have the issue though... Might try it out again...

I suspect maybe a PSU fault, just not sure if there's anything else I should look at before chalking it up to a fault!

So this is the voltage being put out directly from the power source though - not further along. E.g. I've got the multimeter connected to one output from the PSU as I turn on lights connected to the other outputs, and I see the voltage dropping further and further on the multimeter

Hi all, Was spending some time in the front yard today diagnosing why our mega tree looked like it was severely lacking power. We've got multiple injection points, so I didn't think it was a matter of needing more power, so decided to check what voltage I was getting from the PSU itself. When...

Interesting! I'll give that a go - I feel like these strips in general are very touchy!

Hey all, I've already replaced one 5m ws2812b strip this year on account of it 'flicking' random colors when not being sent any data (although it worked perfectly fine when being sent data). I've just gone out to have a look at the lights, and noticed a second strip is now doing the same thing...

Hi all, I stupidly forgot to double check my quote from Ray Wu before finalizing the order, and realized that we had P10 1/4 scan rate panels instead of the usual 1/8. Reading the Wiki and other sources, it seems to suggest the 1/4 rate panels just aren't supported - however, I did see a post...

One song of 5 I should say too (we aren’t just die hard Mariah Carey fans ;))