Recent content by merryoncherry

There are several people I know of. They have different styles, strengths, and pricing... so the questions I'd ask are: 1. What song is it (is it just one?) and how long does it run? 2. What elements are being sequenced (what's in your show)? 3. Are you OK with the sequence ending up in a store...

Was thinking more along the lines of DHCP Option 12. The other thought I had is that OP said "modem/router"... I've encountered one of those with a device cap of 4 on it... they want paid more if you have more devices or something. Anyway, static on separate network is best for the real show...

I plugged mine in one at a time and filled in the hostname before plugging in the next one, so I can tell them apart easily. So this one is "baldrickboard1.local", the next is "baldrickboard2.local", etc... I am not sure what happens if you leave it as "baldrickboard" in all of them, whether...

If you just have a matrix with irregular wiring, you need a custom model, but probably not a shadow model. (If you have something 3D like a tree, that's when there may be benefit to using both together... the regular model for the effect target, and a shadow model for the wiring splits.)

And @thewanderingpine points out that I forgot to mention any boards with resettable fuses, like https://wasatchlights.com/products/bong-69-power-distribution-board

I'm not scared of power injection, I'm just lazy and bad at planning, so want everything to be versatile. The controller ports can be used for power injection, and I do that where needed (which is not that many places). Since it's from the same PSU, there aren't any rules to follow about...

If you insist. (The controller board itself is already doing a lot of power distribution.) Those pictured are jboards... https://jboards.ecwid.com/Power-Distro-8-p119524056 But you can get pretty much anything, as the circuit is very simple, all you're looking at is the most convenient...

The K32 can certainly run 11000 lights. I'm just trying to imagine in my head how those 11000 lights are arranged physically, as some people get into trouble there. You could run 200 up the tree and 200 back down, for 64 strands of 200, that'd be 12,800... or if you took a few strands off and...

1. Nice. The 7000ish bullet pixels are 12V? Resistor? (On the assumption that you've tried to "find the best deal out there" but didn't go 5V.) 2. That's a good start. 11,000 sounds possible but more than necessary. A 32-port controller, running 32 strings, makes a lot of sense. If those...

Most of these questions will become simple math once you answer a few other questions... For each of the items above, how many pixels do they have, and what kind of pixels did you get? Are these props assembled? After they're assembled you'll know how many ports they'll take ... add that up...

It would seem that the wiki URLs changed at some point in the last 13 years. https://auschristmaslighting.com/wiki/Bypassing_Multi_Function_Controllers#Total_MFC_Removal (The diagrams don't all load and show suspense, but when I click on them they do open.)

xLights didn't change... Some vendors make multiple submodels, others make stranded submodels (and some do neither or both). So, if you like the multiple submodels, click the stranded submodel and hit "split" to split it.

The reason to do the LoR is so you can make use of the things you already have? Or adding some new things too? If reusing, one of the first experiments to try is to see if they actually respond quickly to being powered on and off... not everything does these days. If you're still interested...

Looks nice. Not a lot of LoR sharing here, though some do elsewhere. Do you already have the LoR?

It can be quite demoralizing if you get a bad batch of pixels. I am sorry to hear that this happened to you. One of the 3 main factories produced terrible pixels in 2022, with some failing in 2022, and the rest in 2023. It's a very widespread gripe in the hobby because so many people had a...