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LOL, yeah, exactly.

This is a pretty cool idea. Is there some way to put guard rails on the Ollama model? How do you prevent Santa from being hijacked by some prankster and Santa start regurgitating some discombobulated nonsense or otherwise vulgar conversation?

Based on the work Kent did I made some progress on my vertical and garage door matrices. My approach was to design a “matrix panel”. Each panel is cut from 4mm Coro and the seed strings are wired from an upstream PCB connection to a downstream PCB connection. The final matrix is constructed...

I designed a small PCB for configuring matrix panels. The PCB connects the strings in a zig zag. So, the connected panels look like one large panel in xLights. The PCB also helps with power distribution and balancing and there is an integrated switch so you can control power to the panel with...

This is an old thread but wanted to add some clarification. 12V resistor pixels that operate at less than 18mA per LED have inaccurate colour at their intended operating voltage of 12V. The resistor values that are typically used with 12V resistor pixels force the ws2811 LED constant current...

Ray sells the GS8208 bullets. I have purchased them from him the past couple years.

I think I determined how the vendors think about the wire gauge issue. They say the wire is 18 gauge and in their mind it is because if you add up the cross sectional area for the individual wires it is about the same as the cross sectional area of 18 AWG. So, the combined wire gauge of the...

Thank you Kent for the update. That looks quite impressive. Well done.

One more question, do you recall which controller was the one that flamed out? Was it the P9828M? The reason I ask is I noticed in your photo that the P9828M pixel is missing the ceramic capacitor. The "features" listed in the link earlier in the thread imply the controller has an internal...

Thank you for the feedback. I am having difficulty finding a datasheet as well. I have been chatting with a fellow that has some of the P9828M pixels. He experienced a pixel fire and I am attempting to help him determine the failure mode. On a related note, I spoke to @merryoncherry recently...

Does anyone have an update of these pixels? I had a conversation with a guy that experienced a pixel fire and was trying to dig up an actual datasheet or website for the P9828M controller.

And the consequence of this is a non linear brightness.

If you still have that pixel and you don't mind dropping it in the mail I would like to have a close look at it.

Hi Kent, I am new to AusChristmas but been lurking around here for a few years and running a show since about 2018. I have been thinking about adding some matrices to my show next year consisting of a couple vertical column matrices on each side of the garage door and a matrix on the door. I...