Recent content by BigRedNole

Obviously, you are not doing anything this year unless you are spending a ton at this point. Therefore, my recommendation is to sit back, educate yourself, test Xlights without spending a penny. There is so much help out here, you won't go wrong either way. However, with LOR you are stuck with them.

Thanks. I am probably going to put two anchors in the brick: to and bottom. Screw an eye bolt into those. Then run a rope cable through the conduit and use on off those tightening hooks to make it more tight

I have a spinner that is about 48" in diameter (~1.2m). It is going over a garage door on brick maybe 10 feet up. What is the best way to secure it? I was thinking to mount it to 1/2" emt, mounting screw and hold on brick, mount the conduit to that

I sent that to them already. Once I encountered it, I ignored the issue the first time until I ran into the pattern a second time. Looked to see if there was any more I could get out of the pixels distance, how the seed pixels went in, or anything. It is just a small delta in how far the holes...

I am fairly certain I know the answer already, but my OCD is kind of taking over my thinking here. I have a spinner with 840 seed pixel holes. On the prop, there are I think 16 sections where the holes extend beyond the 4" spacing for the pixels. One way to overcome this is to splice pixels 16...

By no means am I advocating for this controller, but I powered it on for the first time today. I can only compare it to my old Falcon 16v3 that is problematic. Setup was easy and fairly straightforward. I avoided hiccups I had as a newbie with the Falcon. Both are similar and no negative to...

Welcome Alien Life Form (US thing from the 80s).

Thank you. I am back into my learning curve in Xlights now. I set the F16v3 and sequences about 5 years ago and never did anything else. I am basically starting over again this year. I am glad that the issues on the F16v3 went away on the factory reset. Now learning about DDP and trying plan out...

I wanted to give a thanks to @AAH, @Kent, and @merryoncherry. All of this helped solve the issue. It took resetting the F16v3 to factory defaults and starting the board from scratch. Port 1 is finally working again. Using DDP made it much easier to create the props in Xlights. Still a few little...

I set the F16v3 up long ago and went through that old setup video again. Setting up the Universes, there are 96 in total starting at Channel 1 to Channel 510 (170 pixels). This is most definitely the reason for the issue, but I haven't tracked down how to resolve it yet. When I went to test node...

@merryoncherry Thank you for the information. I went through this test as described. I spot checked and narrowed down to where there was a node failure. It occurs at Node 171 on all of my strings. I have 12 strings of 240 pixels each. In all cases, Node 1-170 is perfectly fine. Once I hit Node...

First off, I am not sure if this is the correct place to post this issue. I am hoping it is. I am just starting to design my layout in Xlights. The first prop I am testing is a 480 pixel mini tree from Pixel Paradise. I am using a Falcon F16v3 to run the project. Below are the things I have done...

Thanks. I thought about that too. Enter the number of pixels I want on the string logged in to the Falcon, see where it stop, and put a piece of tape there to show where I need to cut. That will make it easier. Work smarter, not harder.\ I ordered a set of aligator clips. I have extra port...

I am just starting to design for this year. I will be using mostly seed pixels. They are lighter, easier to store, and are definitely bright enough. So, I started to piece together my first mini tree. 20 pixels per strand, 24 strands, and a 50 pixel star. I ran into several issues to start and...

I actually viewed your webpage or at least I think it is yours on using seed pixels. It was part of the reason I chose to look back into it. Just the ease of storing is the biggest benefit.