Recent content by koolantz

I knocked up 4 pixel arches out this weekend out of some spare 2812B strip I had. Half a roll of strip per arch (2.5m or 75 Pixels), 2.6m of 20mm conduit and 38 cable ties per arch! Drilled some holes near the ends of the conduit and used builders string to pull the ends together to make a...

I also noted with the memory hold controllers there is a noticeable delay between applying power and when the leds light so cant even run these on a 240 AC controller.

Time base is 1ms/div and 10v/div. I will keep one rope light to play with and pull apart the controller and go to bunnings today to swap the rest.

I have been looking around for cheap low voltage rope light and the Lytworx were the first I have seen at the local shops so I picked 3 up. Bugger! Also got stung with the curtain lights. Had a look at the drive on the CRO and I agree it looks like to much trouble to get working on a DC-48 etc...

I just bought 4 packs of the Big-W 200 LED icicle lights, does anybody know if they can be chopped into smaller sections?, I would like to end up with at least 8 segments total so i half woud be good. Tracing the wiring is making my brain hurt. I will be drving them with 30VDC. Cheers Anthony.

Hi All, This is my first year with computerised christmas lights. I have around 2500 LED lights in using off the shelf supermarket strings. I am using LightShow Pro with Enttec USB DMX Pro. The LED's are controlled by a one of Jesse Lackey's DMX-32 boards...