Gday everyone, new to this whole Christmas lights thing. Finally getting away from the Bunnings led’s and looking at going the pixel route.

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Welcome to ACL. The 2 wire 2 channel leds that Bunnings and Big W etc are selling these days are evil. They work fine but you need something like my DMX2-18 to control them and they just don't have quite the same effect as pixels. I still use the same style leds and even added more this year. My display is pretty eclectic because I still light the tradition icicle and fairy light look although I have a few thousand pixels mixed in.
 
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Don't throw the Bunnings leds away yet. As AAH says, his DMX2-18 boards are an excellent way to use them in a computer-controlled show.
 
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Goliath said:
Don't throw the Bunnings leds away yet. As AAH says, his DMX2-18 boards are an excellent way to use them in a computer-controlled show.
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If changing to a pixel display my 2811DC2-30 is also capable of driving the 2 wire 2 channel leds at a lower cost per channel than dmx.
 
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Dekboy73 said:
Don’t the 2 wire led’s run on about 32v ?
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They do run on 30-32V for "most". The 2811DC2-30 uses 5V WS2811 logic to control the 2 wire 2 channel output. As more people are transitioning to pixels and pixel controllers I made up the 2811DC2-30 so that the 2 wire strings could be implemented pretty easily into pixel displays. There's essentially no smarts on the boards compared to DMX control so the cost per channel works out lower.
 
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