Recent content by mjroennebeck

Hello all. I was wondering what everyone used to bend their pipes or tubes for their displays? I was thinking about buying something like this. Please let me know if this would work for bending a frame for an arch ECT...

Question for everyone. Did any of you upgrade your house circuit breakers to a higher amperage before you did your show? I'll be running power wires from my garage outlets and the outlets on the outside of my house. They are 20 amp circuit breakers and I'm upgrading them to 60 amp circuit...

Does anyone know who I can reach out to. To get a custom sequence created for me?

Hello. This is my first year doing pixel light shows. Im currently purchasing all the small accessories I might need for my enclosures and the lights or props. I'm starting to notice how expensive all these 3d printed items cost. So I wanted to ask some questions about 3d printers. 1. Is it...

I have a few mean well and some Chinese versions

Ok I got my cat cable and all my power supplies. You all helped out a lot. The next question is... How the heck do I power my power supplies? Do I need to make a power cable that runs from an outlet to the +- and ground symbols on the power supply?

OMG I feel like this should be this difficult for me but it is. I'm trying to find Cat 5e stranded on Amazon. None of their cables say stranded. I have found ones that say outdoor, standard or nothing really. Here are some pictures. Please let me know which one I need to get

Where do you all get your cat cable from. I'm realizing how expensive this hobby is and all these little things add up

Ok last question on this. Do I need to get shielded or unshielded

So I've decided to go with Cat 6. The only thing I'm super confused on is what type do I get? Cat 6 or Cat 6A? What is the difference between Plenum, riser, stranded or solid and what one do I need for my lights?

Hello, first thank you to everyone that has been giving this noob advice. I have a thousand more questions but I'll start with this and some background. I have a 20ft mega tree that will have well over 10000 bullet lights, a 8x16 seed pixel garage matrix that has over 20,000 lights, a 4x6 seed...

I for sure need power injection and the control board just won't give enough to make my show be crisp and pop.plus the circuit boards are very easy to use. I've noticed lot of people are scared of power injection and I'm not sure why.

So as I've mentioned before, I am very new to Christmas light shows. This is my first year. I have over 20 years of electrician experience but this stuff is Greek to me. I am going to be doing power injection. I want to put the power injection boards into my control board enclosures. I'm...

Thanks for the help. So will my K32 be able to run a mega tree at 11000 lights or will I have to drop it down to around 8000

So I went through everything and got you the answers to your questions. 1. If I use every single property I have, I'll need roughly 36,000 pixels... 23000 bullets and 13,000 seed pixels. I currently have 7000ish bullets and 3,000ish seed pixels. So I'm trying to find the best deal out there to...