Recent content by Goliath

5 wires, 4 stars - would one be a common and the others 4 the individual stars?

I'm starting to accumulate a sizable pile of dead inflatables. I've done a fair bit of googling re replacements, but there seems to be a wide variety of similar fans, which may or may not do the job. Some of the bigger inflatables might be 1.2A with seemingly compatible fans drawing only half...

Great idea. When I first started playing with pixels, I was told to not hotswap them, as the voltage spike when plugging them in could fry the chips. I reckon I lost a few in the first years by not following that advice. I would be very inclined to put a switch on these, with a power on led...

Is that RGB/W setting right? Isn't that 4 channels, not 3?

I know nothing about xlights - I use a pixlite16LR and Vixen. To my mind output1 should be universe 1/2, start channel 1, output2 universe 3/4 start channel 1 etc etc

Try flicking the "Pixels can be split across Universes" button in Advatek assistant, or in the Enttec stuff set your universes to 510 channels.

Describe your network setup - I'm assuming router <-> switch <-> laptop + <-> Pixlite1 + <-> Pixlite2 How is the working one set up? Manual IP address or set by DHCP? Dang it! My formatting won't stay! Switch connects to laptop and both Pixlites.

Oh! Incandescents ........ *sigh* Only in America ...... *sigh* :)

One of the first things I did when I started down this trail, was to get a Sparky to put a dedicated circuit in with switches in two places at the front of the house. There's a second circuit available too, with the powerpoint in the switchbox. If the rain somehow shorts my lights, Her...

That tranny is AC, not DC.

The Ray Wu connectors aren't perfect fits, but they are pretty close, the threads seem a bit different. I use them when I have to, but prefer to get the right ones form AAH.

Humour us. Take a closeup of the label.

As Wayne says, make sure the right adapter is selected, press search, and it should pop up. If not, make sure the darn thing is plugged into the network, and turned on, check network cables are ok. A cheap network tester is pretty handy to have. Last year, mid season, my network connection...

I checked a couple of those "white" strips from last year, and the darn things do work now that the Pixlite is on the fast setting. Pleased I was too frugal to just trash them! Must review the email I sent the vendor last year .........

I've left things pretty darn late this year. A good bit of stuff needed rebuild, or at least re-pixeling. The led strips along the gutter were looking pretty sad at the end of last year, with an annoying number of pixels not working on one channel or another. I've been pretty sour on strip...