I ended up cutting some short 1cm pieces of some 15mm PVC pipe I had. Then pushed it inside the air seeder hose at each end. This presses against the pigtail tightly and keeps the pixel strip tight and against the inside of the arch of the air seeder tube. No hot spots, looks really good.
I only soldered a pigtail on one end of each pixel strip. Maybe I should solder a female pigtail on the other end and use that hold it tight in position?
I'm thinking next year of ordering the Pixel Strip Anchors...
Thank you for posting this, I have the air seeder hose and pixel strip but I had been struggling on how to build them.
How did you anchor the pixel strip inside each arch so it doesn't move?
Cheers,
Michael
Thanks for your reply. I still need to tidy up the cabling.
I've been looking at some vents with a cowl on the outside to keep the weather out.
For extending the pigtails to the locations where I want to put the pixels, would something like this do? "3 CORE .75mm 24/0.20 BLACK FLEX" or should I...
Hi,
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this;
I'm only a beginner in this, and starting small compared to some of the pixel counts I've been seeing.
From my calculations I think I need a third PSU, and will probably get one anyway to do some power injection.
This is my setup;
E682...
Hello !
I have been meaning to join this forum for over a year, we bought a new house start of 2017 and wanted to use Pixel LED's for the 2017 Christmas lights.
A busy year passed by and I didn't get around to it.
So just before NYE I ordered a SanDevices E682 Kit, and
One string of...