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I use ray wu with no issues. You can buy a converter to go from one to the other also

Cheers mate

I see on the Facebook x lights group The majority of people that have had pixel fires or melt downs have been caused by regulated rather than resistor pixels. The maths seems to suggest otherwise. Does anyone else have a similar experience?

I have had success with spraying the outsides of boxes with a long lasting surface spray and then leaving a 600ml plastic drink bottle beside the box with the following mixture inside: 1 cup white sugar 1/3 cup of borax 1 cup of hot water Dissolve together and put the lid on and make a few...

Welcome here Johnno!

Welcome here. I might come and look at your display also David

Welcome here. Looking forward to chatting soon

I actually decided to leave my rasberry Pi on a seperate supply and I leave it running.

Thanks mate for spending hundreds of hours doing this. We all appreciate it very much!

My Pi came with a plug for a standard power point. I split the wires coming in from 240V to power the power supplies and it hooked it up to a standard power point.

I got caught out also as the controller defaulted to 100 pixels.

Welcome here. Definitely take a good look at the 101 manual. I read it three times before I started. I’m not familiar with light o Rama but there are lots in this group that can help you get started. Enjoy!

I have waterproof connectors so maybe I will give it a miss

Hey @Chinwonder2 i have exactly the same Santa and he doesn’t work either. Music works but no movement

Might be a dead pixel. Be sure to replace the one before the dead one and test