Some good information and insight. Appreciate it.
I'm going to give equal spacing a try and see how it lays out.
I've also bought another 10 LED strips because just 10 wasn't enough, so 20 seemed like a good starting trial
Working on a new matrix and trying to decide how much to let my OCD govern placement and the amount of strips that I will use.
Currently it is at 10 strips of 90 LEDs, but at 3.33cm width and 3.33cm height, it doesn't create a very big matrix.
At double (6.66cm), some of the text and effects...
Yeah I had a look at Bunnings yesterday and found them, they are definitely alot thinner and less rigid than the conduit.
I think the conduit bender idea above might be the go.
I struggled to find a readymade solution for the arches. I did look at Bunnings for a kit but couldn't find anything. Extending mine out to more than 4 arches is on the cards, but the bending of the conduit is an absolute pain.
Will definitely see if I can find that garden arches kit
I need to take some further photos but when I first started, I wanted to design a tunnel with 4 x arches approx 500mm apart forming a tunnel for people to walk through.
After looking at a tonne of different arch ideas, and the availability of materials vs cost for a first off trial, I went with...