Recent content by BigRedNole

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.

One other thing to mention. My neighbor has one of those store bought mega trees (maybe 8') with just its own programmed sequences. It is made with seed pixels and is extremely bright. I don't think brightness of seed pixels compared to bullet is going to be an issue.

I found it easier just to test in XLights. SInce I am only testing the actual strands, nothing too special needed. It was more to be sure the purchased pixels worked. Next weekend I will start to tackle cutting WS2815 led strip, soldering, sealing, and waterproofing the ends. Once that bit is...

Purely guessing and nothing to compare to, but they are bright enough for my needs. In all honesty, I was planning on doing Projection Mapping last year. Wasted a lot of money on a pro projector that cannot work on my brick house. Had a very depressing decorated house last year and made the...

I received my partial order of seed pixels yesterday from Ray Wu. They were a custom 240 string at 5cm with XConnect. I ordered a total of 12. Its almost 3000 pixels and they would store in a shoebox. That is what got me into looking at restarting pixels on my house. These were bought to make 5...

Thank you for the recommendation. I was going of the spec sheet to keep the pixels at 680 or less for the 40fps. I was simply running the pixel counts on a spreadsheet, drawing lines at obvious breaks. Using more ports is not an issue. I do plan at some point adding controllers, but just not...