Recent content by Samante

Thanks @ezellner and @SAALTFAM - it's working! :) I changed the pigtail to the controller and the extension cord and it's now working. I'm powering 130 pixels on one channel for the star and 168 on the other channel for the columns, plus powering the pi from the power supply too. I'd love to...

Hi everyone! It's my first year and I've managed to get a *very small* 5V display working. Well, it works inside my house with everything hooked up. Outside the house...not so much! I have two 84 pixel matrixes on my front columns, and I'm using an rpi-28D+. I also have a shooting star prop...

That looks amazing! Well done!

Thank you @SAALTFAM and @welby! Thanks for the offer @SAALTFAM, but I really want to try and get something happening this weekend, so it's off to Bunnings with your recommendation :) I didn't even notice the 2A fuse for the 5V instructions, thank you @welby for bringing this to my attention!

Thank you all for your advice! My mother got an electrician to convert a power cord for me, but then the eye terminals were too big. So I put my big girl undies on and just cut the wires and bought smaller eye terminals and hurrah! There was power (and no magic smoke). Thanks to @uncledan and...

Hi i13! You're right - I've mucked up the controller situation! I was overwhelmed and got distracted by children, clicked the wrong one and now it's on it's way to me. I do have lots of traditional LED strings but I know from talking to you earlier in the year that they're not all suitable to...

Thanks Freeman. I'll ask the sparky about whether we could bump it up to 5.5v. I've realised after reading i13's post that I must have ordered the wrong controller the other night when I was distracted, so I've still got a ways to go before I can even try to make this work.

Hi Freman, Thank you for your reply! The mean well has a clear piece of plastic over the terminals, yes. I was planning on keeping it all together in a clear box inside my garage for this year, and look at getting a proper enclosure for next year. The lights would be a maximum of 5m away from...

Hi everyone, As stated, I am very new at all of this and live in a cyclone prone area of FNQ. I have been reading and watching videos about this for about 10 months. My first foray into pixels this year is going to be small - I have 400 5v lights, a DMX18 from Hanson Electronics and a MeanWell...

Wow! Thank you for sharing. It looks great!

Thank you to everyone sharing on this thread, I would love to do something similar to i13’s display, and I’m not very technically minded.