Recent content by BrianZ

Hello and welcome. I'm also new here, but i did just that. I connected PSU 1 with the neutral, live, and ground to the same on PSU 2 and PSU 2 out to the single plug-in cable. But make sure you put a ground wire (V-) between the both supplies. I got the idea from Ni Family Lights who is...

This was so nice and I like how you used stationary Halloween props that light up to the chorus vocals. Very nice. I'm new at this and I will say, no show is too small. A show is a show. And this put a smile on my face, which is the whole point of this hobby.

And is that the script the above person is referring to?

Is there an easier way to schedule a shutdown of the pi in Fpp 7.2?

I remember about two years ago, there was a company or person that sold pre-drilled PVC pipes with pixel node cutouts. It’s was very nice because the pixels fit perfectly and the other side of the PVC had a slightly larger hole so you can fit your fingers in or a tool to insert the nodes...

They do. I’ll have to test again later and report back.

Hey Indi, exactly what you said in your first paragraph, is what’s happening. But I haven’t run the tools. I’ll work on that and report back. I put the icicle group on the top of the other models, on the bottom and same. Just some of the lights turn on, on all the strings. Individually, they all...

Hello all. I’m having issues with my icicle group lighting all the pixels. Individually, all the icicles works fine. But when I put them in a group, some of the nodes Don’t come turn on, on each of the strings. All the strings are correctly networked in the falcon controller and like I said...

I’m actually going to add a differential expansion board onto the F4. I’d also like to connect to PSU’s together to be powered by one cable to the outlet. The 2nd is connected to the first with only the neutral and ground, correct?

Agreed. But the voltage drops a lot by starting from port 2 with a 30ft extension or is this the same if I chain them together anyway? I’m trying to minimize the cabling. But what I may do, is run all the lights from two ports and run one PI cable with 2 PI points. Sounds good?

Yeah, I’m definitely doing this!! Because I’ll have other props and my main F4 controller will almost be used up by the 750 icicle lights. My question is, can I run all lights from one port with PI at 50% brightness? The reason why I ask is, the controller will be at one end of the roof, in the...

Understood. So, I shouldn’t run that many pixels off of one port then, correct?

Darn, true. But I actually ran 450 at 50% color wash with no injection and they did great. I tested the very end and it dropped to about 10v. But the colors were fine.

I ran steady white at 50% with 450 12v pixels coming out of one port and I had to PI. Then I color washed them and no PI was needed. I just don’t know how all those pixels held with no issues on one port. Could I run more pixels from that same port with PI? And I mis-read that .112. Yeah….lol.

I tested 450 pixels on port 1 at 50% brightness with no PI and it did very well. But how is this when port 1 has a 5 amp fuse?