Recent content by thedoctor903

Hi All, Recently I’ve been trying out some of the “seed” style pixels and ended up getting some from both Ray Wu and GFLAI Lighting to compare. I tested both 5V and 12V variants with 5cm spacing and thought I would share my findings in case anyone else is interested. These are the same style of...

Hi Afraser, I'm glad you like my Avicii sequence 😊 Since a couple people have requested it, I've decided to share it. A few things to note: I don't know how well it will map to other displays, as it wasn't sequenced with that in mind. I have cleaned up my layout and I also added a few extra...

Hi Ash, Lots of good advice has already been given, Alan's analysis of my display is pretty much spot on ;) In 2018 I had about 1600 pixels, so 4800 channels roughly. The pixel strip is all 12v 10 pixel/30 led per metre, with 3.4m per arch. I also cannot recommend xLights highly enough, it's...

Unfortunately that exceeds my current soldering abilities without risking damage :( Although, I did manage to swap the capacitors and as expected it made no difference. Thanks for the help anyway. P.S - I didn't mean to hijack this thread, I just thought because OP and I have what appears to be...

Ok, I thought that may be the case. So there's nothing really that can be done as the memory is probably stored somewhere in the IC?

Just two wires which can be seen in the below image and the connections to the in/out wires https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByyR4f81A5P9cG4tREFGSDA2LWc Interesting. The controller in the video was different, do you believe a similar thing could work for this controller? Would something like...

So I tested the controllers this morning and the green one showed a voltage of 0.004v if I'm reading it correctly. The white controller had 0.001 and flickered to 0 every so often. Would it be worth swapping the capacitor?

Ok. I measured both powered off. The white one drops in power and then jumps up again. Eg. may drop to 0.02v then will jump to 0.2 and start going down again before jumping up again. EDIT: After it jumps a few times it stops and then slowly goes down to <0.005 The green one just seems to...

Just measured the capacitor on both while powered. Memory controller (white) - 5.25v No Memory (green) - 5.13v Do you mean after the initial power up and should be powered off for the following tests? If so, I noticed when I measure the voltage while powered off the power is drained while...