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Thanks! I tried all of these - the solution seems to have been a bad pixel somewhere in the first icicle. I'll just have 1 fewer icicles than planned. Thank you!!

I received my first shipment of lights and am having issues with one of the strings. Hoping someone can sanity check to make sure I'm not doing anything obviously stupid. The string of lights is this one: (WS2811 icicles from ray wu)...

This is really helpful, thank you! Esp the waterproof connector info. If you're curious, this is my current plan, tried to keep it small for year 1. Went with the F4V3: https://auschristmaslighting.com/threads/request-for-review-before-first-order.11674/ I did decide to go with 12V. Hoping I...

All - thank you again for the help! For anyone who is interested (as well as for my own history keeping), here's what I ended up going with. I decided to go 12V but experiment a bit with some different protocols based on what I learned in this thread: 12V WS2812B strip...

Neat! I'm in Malden, MA...which relatively speaking in this forum is just up the road. I'm just starting out, but I'll be excited to see your display this year.

Wow, that seems like a crazy difference in power use. I'll definitely look into that. On a quick search, the main downside I can see is that there seem to be fewer options, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Also, the GS8208 strips don't seem to have the same power difference, at least in...

Great to hear :) That said, I'm already rethinking whether I need something larger...mostly because I realized that my indoor tree is right next to this window, so it would be easy to wire it up with pixels and combine the displays. I can already see how this hobby rapidly becomes addictive...

Actually, nevermind - it worked eventually. *shrug*

Hi, all - I'm brand new to this and I've already found these forums really helpful, and I'm hoping that someone might be willing to review my plans before I start ordering parts. I've got (what I think are) pretty modest plans for Year 1. Right now, I've got my basic layout mocked up in...

Hi AAH - I have what may be a stupid question. I tried to post a thread in the 101 Display Basics with my draft plan, but got an error saying that the content I want to post is not allowed. Any idea why? The post has a couple embedded images/diagrams from imgur and some weblinks, but nothing out...

Hey everyone! I've wanted to do an animated Christmas display for years now, and I've decided this is finally the year I'm going to make it happen. I'm thinking I'll start small for this first year, but we'll see how ambitious I get between now and Dec. Also - I want to give a huge thank you to...