Recent content by Cootamike

I'm designing some new little pixel trees and i have been watching some videos on youtube. There are a few people who add capacitors where they do power injection on pixel strips. I understand the theory as most of the time the LEDs would be flashing in short bursts so it would even out the...

mmmm, the 5v ones are actually cheaper.... It does make me rethink the number of pixels per string though, the voltage drop from 5v would be a bit more harsh than 12v Rain isn't much of an issue around here in December, they say their IP68 rated but that is taken with a heavy dose of salt...

In terms of wind loading and strength, what I'm looking at is a tilt-down radio tower from somewhere like this place: http://www.nbsantennas.com.au/masts_products.html They need guying but nothing too heavy duty and they are designed to hold a heavy antenna in serious wind. The base is...

I'm already planning next years display and my major addition will be a mega tree. My question is on size, i'm toying with a few designs anywhere between 4m and 9m tall. My current thought is for a 360 degree tree 9m from ground to top ring with the option of a star on top next year. 16 x 8m...

It seems there are a few people on here losing their sequencing virginity this year. I'm also in this basket although it nearly happened last year but a storm and a sudden hospital stay stopped it. My better two sequences are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Mo5zlBqnU...

SUCCESS! I had the "swap pixels" and "swap channels" options ass about. Thanks everyone

I'll go through my patching and have a look but i think it's going to be a filter problem maybe, the fist switch happens at channel 150 (after 50 pixels) so it isn't going to be a universe thing. Also, there isn't any shift in what gets lit up, i.e. when i light up one of the elements in white...

I'm using Vixen 3.2.1 and have a series of WS2811 pixels in different strips (8 strips, 280 pixels in total in one string). I have the first strip plus the third and fourth strips with the red and blue ass about, the rest are fine. I thought it may be an element setup issue as the swap...

Welcome to the forum. Im also in my first year of serious lights and I'm already committed to 1700 channels :) the CLAP takes hold pretty quickly, embrace it.

That was it.... I jumped the gun in patching before the colour settings. rookie mistake.

Mmmmm, That is how I have it set up. One thing I have noticed when looking at setup guides is that most of the guides refer to the E1.31 output interface by J1SYS but the version of Vixen i'm using has an E1.31 interface built in and they differ in one way, the built in one lacks the "assume...

It definately seems to be a config snafu in Vixen, I have since tested the P2 using David Duffy's tool and it all works really well. The issue seems to be that the combined RGB values for each pixel is being applied to the channel instead of the group, for example, pixel 1's value (regardless...

Well i finally got my P2 and hooked it up to a 50 pixel string and fired it up, the test pattern worked great. I started up Vixen 3.0.10, told it i had an E1.31 interface, Universe 1, Start 1, Size 150 and a unicast IP. Once i applied that the last two thirds of the string lit up white. I went...