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Those look like https://boscoyostudio.com/products/chromaglow-presents-medium and they'd be glowing. But all the other options are used too, shining lights on stuff, putting pixels on the outside, all been done.

It's early in the season, plenty of time to get samples of the lights you want to use and try them. You will quickly learn that a few volts of drop is fine (no need to "minimize", just keep at "acceptable" levels as defined by your pixels and tastes) and that the 12V pixels and strips do not in...

We've been social media stalking :-) ( View: https://youtu.be/TPlGUny1two ) and it seems like the matrix, outlines, spinners, etc., will cross over nicely. There are a handful of snowflake, stocking, candy cane, and present cutouts though, you could quick-swap those for cats, hats, ghosts...

Welcome. Not sure what props you have, but most things play at Halloween... I guess candy canes, presents, snowflakes etc. look a bit funny and tombs, bats, spiders are more common, but any matrix, house outline, trees, arches, controllers, spinners, MHs, etc., are easily reused. Halloween...

There are a lot of distributors for a tangled web of China suppliers fronted mostly by Ray Wu, Paul Zhang, and ScottLED. Most of the pixels sold have been solid, with a few notorious "bad batch" years. Short answer, for playing around right now I would go scottledusa, as you would get small...

Yeah, strips or seed pixels in HDPE or PEX is popular for arches, mine are much smaller than 2" (and PEX) because they were brighter, and strip because seeds weren't available yet when I made them. Try it on a small amount of the pipe before you get a whole spool.

So I assume each panel has 100 pixels, you and you are doing a zigzag on each panel? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10 20,19,18,17,16,15,14,13,12,11 ... 100,99,98,97,96,95,94,93,92,91 And I assume that you want to be able to disassemble at the boundaries, and all the same. So this means for the...

Agree... you can also use seed pixels (like B4IGO says), or something intermediate, like the gumdrops that go in the same tree strip, are much lighter, and use 1/3 of the power as a traditional resistor bullet. If you go bullets, these also come in the resistor variety or ones that use 1/3 of...

You can add a controller you don't own yet. But it doesn't matter until much later if things are connected to controllers or not. Also, the 5 strands is red because 36 doesn't divide by 5. Try 35?

It's really easy. Just use the visualizer and drop the tree and the star on the same controller port, tree first. (There's lots of videos, but ... just easier to show in a screen shot.) But let's go back to the tree for a second... there are strings, strands, and pixel nodes. How many...

Absolutely. Like your family can share cars of different makes and models, they all drive on the same road... and if you already know how to drive one car it is pretty easy to learn how to drive a different one.

+1, got rid of all smart receivers in favor of 8- or 16-port controllers and it made my life better. Still have some dumb receiver boxes that were customized for the power and port needs of specific props. Those receivers are very easy to use, compatible across all controllers (though Hinks /...

2 out of how many, if it is one string it possibly is junk and you should ask about the warranty, often 2 years...

People seem to be enjoying my show again this year. Light wands (2000) have all been given out as of the day before yesterday. Candy cane stocks should be fully depleted today or tomorrow. So I guess the quantities were about right. Weather may have kept the crowds down by 20% overall, but...

I have always wanted to do this song. (And, pay no attention to the tune to saying "your radio station goes here")