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    Fix pixel voltage drop with multi-wire cable -- which wires to "double up"?

    I've got strings of 100 pixel 12v 2801s, each attached to a SD E682 with a 10' extension cable from Ray Wu. All is good. This year I needed to add another 10' extension to each string and now, at 20', the pixels flicker when more than about 70 are set to white. Measured voltage drop is about...
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    Anyone have a xLights/Nutcracker development platform working **Solved**

    I've been watching the developer tutorial videos Sean made last summer, downloaded the xLights software from GitHub, installed CodeBlocks, MinGW, wxWidgets 3.0.0, and followed directions in the Windows Readme to create the DLLs, setup CodeBlocks, etc. <snip> Problem found. Was downloading...
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    Playlist limit? Random order playback ?

    I want to play effects in random order. Since I’m not using music, my idea is to make a Playlist of one or two effects and check the “Random order” box in the Schedule Playlist window. A XSEQ file for a 10 second sequence w/4096 channels is about 800Kb. 100 Playlists would be 80Mb, 1000 would...
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    How do I lengthen (add time to) an existing sequence? *Solved, expounded*

    Okay, I think I understand what’s happening. Sean has always told us in his tutorials that the XSEQ file is expendable. It can be recreated from the XML file. Well, yes and no. The XML file has everything needed to run the effects, sequences and the show. It cannot, however, create a...
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    How do I lengthen (add time to) an existing sequence? *Solved, expounded*

    Being a first time user of Nutcracker this Christmas, after getting all of the hardware working, I created a new animation sequence of 210 seconds (no music), inserted 25 rows, created start times and programmed my effects. Everything worked perfectly. Now I want to add more effects to the...
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