Recent content by cdnbob

If either of you had the PPR LED winking, then you may well have had the same issue as I. The PPR-A is a different beast with a different voltage regulator (as best I can tell), so what any LEDs mean there could be different. I drive my lights using a P12D on my P12S controller. The P12D is...

Hi. Has anyone had issues with PPRs working erratically, possibly due to overheating? I'm getting ready for the upcoming season and my testing has had some troubles, and the culprit seems to be my PPR-Bs when they get warm. It's only 13C today, so I didn't expect overheating from such a small...

Thanks for that. I'll check out the cost of an address writer. There is a second DMX port on my pixel controller, so I could use that, but I'll need to get more wire to cable it up. Using the second port is likely the simpler and quicker option at this time.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not it. They were fine for the week up to Wednesday, running a simple pre-season sequence that I use to confirm that all is well set up. I made no changes to the configurations, so something else is amiss here. Now that it's daylight and drier outside, I'll...

I bought 3 DMX flood lights from Ray Wu this year. They have no external settings for the DMX address. They look well-sealed and I'm concerned to try to open one up. to see inside. They arrived with label reading "1 2 3", "4 5 6", and "1 2 3". So I think I have 2 at DMX addresses 1, 2, and 3...

And now the test pattern is also looking funny. At times I get the red-green-blue but then at other times I see pink, different shades of blue, and other odd colours.

I have 4 strings of technicolor pixels (50 pixels/string) from Ray Wu on a P12S controller. These are split into two strings in series on each of 2 P12S outputs. The second string on each output has been shortened a few pixels so there's less than 100 pixels per output. This is the 3rd year I've...

Okay, David. Thanks. I'll run with that.

Thanks. The input voltage was +5V - expecting 24V. So I traced back and found a wonky connection back up the line. Cut the connector and re-soldered it, and all is well.

I have a P12S driving 5V strips with a 5V power supply. I bought some floods this year that run at 12V and 24V. There will be a 24V power supply to drive the floods (with 24 to 12 buck converters). I want to use the DMX port on the P12S to control the floods. Do I need to have a common ground...

I have 1 PPR-B with a LED that's flashing (green). All my other PPR-Bs have LEDs all solid green. The pixels connected to the PPR with the flashing LED are all dark, so I guess the flashing means a problem. Anyone know what the flashing LED is telling me? Thanks.

The advice on handling the conduit is well taken. As it happened, I was mostly right when installing last year. I laid the conduit on the ground with the strip up. I grasped the upper half of the conduit and raised it up and climbed the ladder a few steps at the same time until I could extend...

I attached the strips to the conduit using zip ties. The top was zipped tightly to prevent slipping, but that zip tie was clear of the strip itself and was over the end cap, so no risk of damage to the strip. The zip ties along the conduit were not too tight to prevent damage to the strip. I...

Thanks for all the input. Much appreciated. Temperature could certainly be an issue. All was fine leading up to Christmas when we had mild weather - above 0C even at night. At Christmas the temps dropped dramatically to near normal for us: -5C in the day and -15C at night. But at first the...

Greetings. I'm looking for some suggestions to avoid strip failure problems that I had last holiday season. Any suggestions about why I had such a bad experience and how to avoid it again would be welcome. Last Christmas (2015) I added a 12 strip mega tree to my display. Advance testing went...