Recent content by Nightryder

Im interested to see if anyone has experience in running lights across a public sidewalk and how they did it? I have a medium sized service maple across a sidewalk that I think may be neat to put some spheres in at some point. Problem is the area that the tree is planted in is surrounded by...

Now that I know I can drop the voltage on the PS52 Im not too worried about it, actually seems pretty stable over time. My grandfather was into Ham radio. When he passed the family were going to throw out his equipment so I grabbed the power supplies, thought they might come in handy someday.

Cracked open the ps52 and found a trimming pot, looks like I have fine adjustment of voltage down to 8v :) Thanks for the tips!

I thought the same, one is a cheap radio shack unit. I cracked it open and didnt find any trim control. The other is a kenwood ps52, there is no external trim and i havent cracked it open to check yet. Its a very expensive unit so i trust the internal circuitry more. I may try cracking it open...

Yeah, it's kind of strange because both say they are 12v power supplies but really output around 14. Do the falcon controllers tolerate 14v? I may just set it up with a pull down resistor to get closer to 12 for the lights, not expecting to be powering more than 100 pixels at once.

I'm thinking about getting into the hobby this year and would like to get a controller and some lights to play with. I have a couple of 12v supplies for ham radio (non adjustable) that output ~14VDC, in the interest of saving money I'm wondering if the 12v pixels will tolerate the higher voltage...