Recent content by Tim Hutson

I am using my Christmas setup (Five F16V3 controllers) to control three very, very large matrices for a theatrical play in three months. Unlike a normal Christmas show, this will be a live event requiring dozens of sequences to be triggered in real time during the course of the play. Using FPP...

The Colorlight X6 was specified and will be provided by the vendor. It seems to be robust and has a loading capacity of 3.9 million pixels, maximum width: 8192 pixels, maximum height: 4096 pixels. It supports input resolution up to 1920×1200@60Hz As far as what I will do with it; now that all...

This entire project has rapidly morphed from a scaled up xLights/FPP/Falcon Controller controlled led strip matrix, to a full-fledged commercial, 4 meter x 10 meter, P4 video screen fed by a Colorlight X6 LED controller. I have lots of homework to do now but I am hoping somebody can tell me...

Thanks for the BTF suggestion, but for clarification, are they a supplier or a manufacturer? I suspected what you were saying about "a select few places" was the case but I still didn't know how to come up with two more quality bidders. Also, do you have a second suggestion? I need three bids...

I am designing and installing a large LED matrix (i.e., 240x600) in a theater using 60 LED/meter strips to be used with xLights and Falcon controllers. The city will be purchasing the lights directly from the supplier I designate but I am required to get three quotes because of the high cost. I...

Since the four most recent posts came after I made my first post yesterday I assumed they were in response to my post, but I think they were actually in response to posts from a couple of weeks ago since they talk about 5V vs 12V pixels, voltage drop, line loss. etc. (which I fully understand by...

This is my third year with an LED light show. I have a combination of strips and pixels with 15,000 totals pixels/nodes. I am already looking to add some matrices to my show for next year and started looking at Ray Wu's latest pixel offerings since I will be using pixel nodes instead of pixel...

Hi everyone. I am new to modern Christmas light displays. I actually had an awesome outdoor display 40 years ago, way before anybody else, with a lot of electronics I built from scratch and C9 Christmas lights. I was able to create a lot of chase patterns with R, G, B, Y, and W alternating C9...