Recent content by randallr

I think I set all of them to 12.20v with no load. I'll give that a shot today!

I've got a 21k pixel (ws2811 square nodes) matrix with (2) MKII LR boards, in condensed mode. Each string is 500 pixels, zigzag @ 125. Last year I'd have a couple random pixels stay red at the end of a song, but would cleanup when next song began. This year there are more frequent, and in dark...

Finally started getting some videos done. Last year we started the move to a city provided site. Now we've added a 75' 16,200 pixel tree that you can go under, as well as a 28' wide 21k pixel matrix that stands 42' tall. (I had to conform to the motto that "Everything is bigger in Texas". I...

Thanks! Had everyone in the family and some in-laws working several weeks prior to the show to get the ~38k RGB bulbs zip-tied!We used RGB node strings, ziptied each bulb and put in 3/4" white PVC. The tree also has 18/5 sprinkler wire going to the center of the sting (each has 2x100 strings @...

Our 2013 video strangely went viral about 3 weeks ago on Facebook. (andrewschristmas) We couldn't post a new one until our episode of ABC's "The Great Christmas Light Fight" aired earlier this week. This one was our first to try our DJI Phantom Vision+ drone, as well as a panasonic HC-x920...

I had bought some last year, but held off. Decided to use them around my driveway this year. Some had clear wire, and some were black wire ones. Ran great for a week then the clear string side started going crazy. Seemed to start at at a certain point, so I would replace a couple right at that...

Are you sure the moisture is getting in from around the LED? I work on microwave towers and have always fought water getting into equipment through coax cable holes. No amount of silicone etc can stop water coming down vertical cables. Given expansion/contraction, it always gets in. Even worse...

I had a P2, with each output driving 1/2 of 24x50 pixel tree. All of the 100 ct pixel strings went up and down, and I had power injected at the first pixel of every string (which is also the end of the last one) Four 350w power supplies each injected at 3 points. I had one power supply fail...

I'm trying to figure out a way to treat 170 pixel strings as a single RGB channel. (I'm rebuilding 70' tree with 64x170 strings, and 30k more channels seems to kill every software I've used) This way, I can go ahead with pixels instead of dumb RGB, but add only 64 channels (64 universes with...

I've had a similar problem on D2's. I turned LIOP off, and it got better. Seemed to happen most early in a show. Once something triggers it, it doesn't recover. I've thought that it's some noise or interference to the signal. My D2 dmx runs aren't terminated, and have groups of 3-ch controllers...

Finally getting my LOR converted to xLights, and built my 64x165 pixel 360 megatree. When I started testing effects, I thought the seq was dragging. Then I realized that even with the speed at the top, effects like spirals and garlands move in super slow motion. I'm assuming the speed is based...

I got some of their 'tiny pix' controllers. Ended up not needing them this year, but used one to test some WS2811 strings. I took a D2 that I used to test my 3-channel RGB controllers, and tried to test to the tiny pix controller. It would never see the DMX signal from the D2. I could plug it...

FYI- I haven't got the CCR's Aux networks figured out. But I have found my MAJOR shortcoming that led to a week of frustration. I originally had 33 LOR CTB16's, numbered from 1-33. I've taken a few out here and there over the years. I had counted all of the controllers in actually still in use...

Thank You! Looking forward to it.

So do I have to renumber all of my Universes from "2" sequentially, to match up between E.131 column, and the LOR Mapping column. If so, any easier way then editing file with Notepad++?