Recent content by uncledan

I use C9's one house outline. Takes a manlift to install, close to 10m on some. C9's seem to be good for 3+ seasons here in California, then the bulbs start falling off. Going to start popping off every C9 bulb and putting some silicone on them. Everything works, just the fact the base of C9...

Great Idea! Here's a few of mine Enclosure #1 (Powers most of the front yard) Falcon F16v3 Falcon F16v3 with two differential expansion boards (3) Meanwell RSP3000-12 running in parallel (1) Meanwell RSP3000-12 (5) Meanwell RSP320-12 (removed because no need for them in there) (1) Meanwell...

Pixels die @JerryBeery, get used to repairing them. No reason to have the display dark. Close to 50k nodes from @benbrown with Scottled with one bad pixel this year. Some are 10+ years old. Pretty sure all DIYLEDExpress pixels came from him

If I want problems, I ask for help. Nobody but me touches my display during set up with the exception of my son with large P5 matrix. The only slaves I use are my FPP

Multiple Klein Multimeters here and highly recommend. Getting one with DC clamp ammeter to test current draw on strings, etc is nice when testing things. My go to is my CL2000, its old but still going strong. Clamp Ammeter rated for 400a DC has come in handy here

Mini trees for me, just for overall effect with 62 of them mostly. As far as a coro prop I would say Rosa Wreath from GE

I don't have a Baldrick17 but it appears to have a 30a rating for each bank of 4 ports with each rated at 7.5a. Bare minimum I would use one power supply for each bank of 4 ports. Ports 1-4, 5-8 etc each have one psu Personally, I wouldn't build my tree that way but should work

To power my tree at 100% intensity white, yes. Even then it's a little undersized. I try to build things for 100% intensity white. 32x150 as you have planned I would use more than three 350w power supplies. You can try 4 power supplies, one for each bank of four outputs of Baldrick17 and...

If that's what you want to optimize, then I would recommend F16 with expansion board. I run an F16 with two expansions on my 48x110 tree with 12v nodes with no power injection. Can run at 100% intensity white, I don't. Doesn't get much simpler, plug and play and every year. Not that it...

I will agree with @AAH, Salisbury East got my vote as well. Good luck to all!

Glad you got it working. I've said the first pixel is most likely dead twice

Bumping an old thread. Just want to say thanks to @ryanschristmaslights and all the admins that put in all the time to keep ACL alive. If you aren't a "Generous Elf" I suggest you become one if ACL has helped you with your blinky journey. You can find it under "Account Details" and "Financial...

Bad first pixel as I stated previously is my guess

I'm guessing a bad first pixel. First place I would start anyways. From what I read don't see you doing anything wrong. Sounds to me like getting power to first pixel but no data or bad pixel. Not sure if 5v or 12v but no reason to inject most 12v with 150 pixels, just lower the intensity...

Seems like more and more issues with pixels from all vendors lately. I replace a few each year and my display isn't small, all of mine were purchased pre Covid 2020