Best 12v Lights to use with F16V3

Hi, I am planning on making a Mega Tree and a series of arches down my driveway, after tips on what type of lights to order from RayWu?

these are the ones I get https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32896949591.html

50 led version https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32968306780.html

I believe strip is the best for arches if your using the tube style, megatree's I think work best with square nodes

Strip - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/568458133.html?spm=2114.12010612.8148356.9.5d132c7cuqZPWb
Square Nodes - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000904243259.html?spm=2114.12010612.8148356.67.3768678aLpKDWJ

With the nodes, at least try and get 18AWG wire, the 20AWG one's are rather light

Main sellers of 'Ray Wu', 'Paul Zhang' and 'Scott LED'. There is a few more but these are the one people who've been in this hobby know are trust worthy.

As to @tooms comment; 18AWG is best. The lower the number is, the thicker the wire is.

There is also advice about not using strip for it's structural integrity and not being easy to repair.

'Bullet' nodes is most common and easy to repair.


And I see you've got one comment @chadburrows , Welcome to ACL!
The 101 manual will help you and it includes some seller links at the back: https://auschristmaslighting.com/threads/auschristmaslighting-101-manual.1889/

Also congratulations for an anniversary of 5 years, even though this is your first thread post .
I'm presuming now; You've joined ACL in 2015 to grab a 101 manual and have now come back. Coming back is a sign that it's your destiny to do this hobby!!

Thanks heaps for all your help everyone, this site and forum is amazing already! Will let you know what I order and post some results!

I went the WS2818 12v version from Ray WU. So far no dramas using a F16V3 and a Advatek MKII.

Is it better to order 2.5m lengths of strip for arches or if you are ordering custom, or specify a length with no pixels for the break between two arches?

Depends on the size of arches you want but my display uses 2.5m strip for arches, inside 2.6m of tubing so that the conduit feet attachments on the ends do not block the last LEDs. I got them ordered with the pigtails already connected from Ray from memory

Might be a little late in the year to get custom orders. Easy enough to add pigtails yourself if you order 5m rolls and cut to length. The break between arches will be a male and female pigtail on each end that can connect if I understand you correctly. Makes installation, storage and repairs much easier if each arch is independent.