Recent content by cam080

I ended up trying a few different strips and narrowed it down to the 2 strips that had the same style of font on them that were giving me issues. I soldered different strips on and they worked first time. Really weird, every other strip I soldered on to the first working section worked fine, but...

Another odd thing I forgot to mention is I have 2 strips that are doing the exact same thing, not lighting up past my join. I'll try a few things mentioned in the thread and see what happens. I joined all that I needed and also to the lengths I needed so it's hard to know exactly what is old...

Yea, already checked for continuity between gnd and 12v all ok, cant check data as i assume it goes into one of the chip pins and im not sure of the pinout. The alignment I couldn't help, as the pads were in slightly different position. Non cut strip definitely goes past the cut point. I can...

They are different strips from different manufacturers, both 2811, and both 12v. I thought I could just join them together and they would be ok, but doesn't seem like it unfortunately. I have soldered the joins. Data in and data out are the correct way around I know xlights is OK, as I can...

Has anyone had any issues joining RGB strip's? I have tried to join what I thought was standard 12v strip to other standard 12v strip, and it doesn't seem to work past where I've joined it. Are there differences between some strips? Both are 12v, 2811, 3 connections (12v, data in/data out...

Hi guys, I really can not find where this is configured in xLights? Can anyone give me some more details on where to configure this? I'm assuming its in the layout tab and I'm looking under the model that I want to setup on the differential receiver but can't seem to find anything. New to...

Can't say I have tried that. I have a few, suppose it is something that's pretty easy to try

I used one of the online calculators for voltage drop and it seemed I could have a string of 200 pixels and power inject at the end (200). So I can go 100 pixels up the tree then 100 pixels down, that way I don't have to do any injecting at the top of the tree. This seems to work but just have...

They are 5v pixels. If the voltage was over 5v and above what it should be wouldn't it effect more than approx 3 pixels out of 2400?

Hi All, I'm in the process of putting together a mega tree. I have set it all up on the ground to test it out just so I know it's working. I found 3 dead pixels out of 2400, which I thought was quite good. They weren't completely dead, just not displaying a certain colour. I went ahead and...

Thanks guys I will look into what you have mentioned and see if i can work it out

Hi all, From what I understand I can use port 1 DMX to feed to a 4 port differential receiver, the other 2 DMX ports can be used but will only drive 1 port each on the differential receiver board. Hopefully I have that correct? How is this programmed in xLights?