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I've got a very similar topper, I just drilled and bolted 2 short pieces of angle iron to it, then drilled a hole through all of that with the main pipe in place, for the star on top of the topper I drilled a few more holes to bolt another bracket that sits on top

I'd just go back to basics and try putting an external antenna on your existing wireless device that's in your shed / mancave, if whatever you have at the moment has a TNC / SMA / whatever antenna connector, buy a 2.4/5ghz OMNI outdoor antenna and put the antenna outside and run a cable back to...

I'm currently looking to replace smart receivers with the 8 port baldrick boards, it's a shame Falcon stopped making their 4 port controllers. In my opinion and as others have stated, you can drive more pixels over IP on top of an ethernet cable then what you can with receivers, given that you...

Yep .. I've just been throwing entire 100 count strings in the bin, as soon as one pixel dies I just bin the whole string .. unfortunately ... due to my excellent organisational skills I've got some older strings mixed up with the strings from the bad batch so I'm not sure whats' what.

Yep .. I have a bad batch from 2021, some time about 4-5 months ago I bench tested them all for 12 hours, about 3k pixels, and thought I had found all the bad strings and disposed of them, this season I've already replaced 4 strings that I thought were good and just ended up taking down the high...

Arches are nice but I think of them as a really low density prop these days, they get washed out fairly quickly when you've got other props around them, for a new display I'd look into a singing face and some other type of high dense prop, simple pixel string along your straight lines of the house

I've purchased a few sequences over the years, unfortunately now they're $50 USD upwards and in .AU dollars that's like $75, I personally can't justify spending that amount of money on sequences anymore, now I just scour the xlights google drive and adapt older and or free sequences into my show.

I have a 32 x 150 pixel mega-tree, I use a dedicated Kulp 32 port controller under it, each string of 150 pixels is on it's own controller port, it's simple, it just works. The construction of the mega-tree was a bit easier as well with each strand / string not needing power injection or looping...

Your netmask's are a bit out, if using a mask of 255.255.0.0, 192.168.1.x and 192.168.200.x are in the same network. Maybe try shortening the mask's to 255.255.255.0 Using 255.255.0.0 as your mask is making your 192.168 subnet start and finish at 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.255.255

Today I've worked out a lot of my stuff is just old and has been baked in the sun a bit too much .. My only singing face looks like it's having a major epileptic fit with most movements, the mega tree has at least 20 dead pixels or failing pixels on it, the roof strips outlining the roof are...

Nice find!

I tried the bungee ball things from Bunnings and like other's have said just couldnt get enough tension on them, and then I found half way through the season the elastic inside them had just given up. Big big cable-ties is all I use now

Yes, this sounds really cool, I'd be interested to see what the cost is I'm assuming because of IP / Ethernet, they don't need to be daisy chained and one could effectively just plug them into a power outlet anywhere.

Isn't that kinda similar to the boards Holiday Coro sells?

I would try and find a more common server PSU, I believe the HP 1200w PSU has been eaten up by the *coin miners, I use to install a lot of IBM servers and it was rare to be installing x3850's or x3690's, and it was around 2014-2015 IBM sold it's server business to Lenovo, so they'd be getting...