Personally not a fan of monetizing a display. A donation box is the best in my opinion even if for charity. We no longer accept any donations of any kind which has upset a few people.
Welcome to ACL! Also from the Central Coast California. My display will be coming down over the next couple weeks. Feel free to reach out if you want to take a look at the madness before it comes down. I also have a ton of stuff of I need to gid rid of..
General rule is 2:1 on height vs base. 5m tree the base will be ~2.5m. Like everything in this hobby people have different preferences and opinions. I prefer a small topper and use the 2:1 on my tree. No right or wrong, build the tree how you want
I'm in California as well and know the Sacramento summer. I have left stuff up year round for years with no issues. The lenses and bases have fallen off C9 Pixabulbs after 4-5 seasons, lights still work. The insulation/jacketing on the wire on pixel strings will start to fade and eventually...
The only way I see it happening is like I said. The green line is data out from string one to two on the left. The yellow line is data out from string two to string three on the right. This will require F-Amps, null pixels, Cat 5 for data etc. It should be doable.
I started running into the same issues. Why I have a controller approximately every 20-30 feet and utilize receivers to keep data runs as short as possible to the prop. One controller in the middle of the display and couple receivers would make life much easier if only using one controller...
What is the problem exactly? This is how I configure everything. You'll need to create a start channel for each model. Simply click on the model and on start channel enter the uni:channel. For example port 1 would be #1:1 edit- port 7 on Mega tree up and down both universe 7, mega1d needs...
If you have an electric winch I see no reason not to use it as long as you pay close attention when bringing it up. Personally, I have a few and chose to go buy a worm gear hex drive winch at local tractor supply. I bring it up slow with my Makita impact in a minute or so. My bigger concern...
Sounds to me like you need to find a new vendor. I only have 40k pixels or so but some are going years 6,7,8 with pixels failures I can count on one hand each year
Welcome to ACL! Looks like a great first year display. Not great on the sequencing myself.. have you mapped sequences? Drop by the chat room if you have any questions
Welcome to ACL! The best place to start is the ACL 101 https://auschristmaslighting.com/threads/auschristmaslighting-101-manual.1889/ There will be mini's around AUS next year, great place to learn and meet fellow hobbyists. Someone is usually in the chat room if you have questions. Drop by...
A little late... but welcome to ACL. Never seen a member join in the same County as me! I'm only about 20 minutes away. Feel free to hit me up if you need anything.
As CargoLights mentioned no such thing as too much power injection. Personally I use a pi and FPP. Either FPP or xSchedule will work fine. xSchedule might be an easier option if you want to keep things simple. If you have questions you can always jump into chat. Somebody is usually lurking...