Recent content by ColonelChristmas

I have been a big fan of the film "A Christmas Story" for a long time. I watch it many times every year and I always see something new in the film. I announced to my wife after Christmas that next year we would have a leg lamp wireframe in the yard. She's not thrilled about it but anyway hot...

I used 2 inch by 1/8 flat steel for the frame and then welded it to a 1 inch steel tube. I am planning on mounting on one of the peaks of the house and I welded up a receiver and have it anchored to the fascia. I have attached a couple of photos to show that I drilled holes in the frame to...

Finished my first RGB running over DMX tonight. It is a 6 foot star using a dumb strips. I is two rows of SMD 5050 controlled by 2 three channel controllers. The dip switches were set to test. The video is not to good but it does look cool and I am happy to be getting the hang of RGB DMX...

All, thanks for all the feedback. I am kind of committed to strips for the star project and another mega tree. I am sitting on 20 strips. Based on the feedback I am ordering a bunch of the connectors and soldering them on. I will need to check into the tubes because with the effort I what...

Re: Cutting and soldering RGB Strips Thanks for comments all. The strip I am using is at this link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007K6SNXS/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I have attached some pics of what I tried to describe last night. The first is my star project frame...

So my goal for next year is to add RGB to my display. I really appreciate all the knowledge on this fourm so I am asking for some help. I have spent the last three evenings trying to cut and sodier your run of the mill 5 meter 5050 SMD waterproof strip lights. I have watched the videos in...