100 FPS - Is it worth it?

merryoncherry

merryoncherry

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Well, it's finally done. The show runs at 100 FPS (pay no mind to the P5 panel). Please enjoy this glimpse into my questionable life choices.


At some point, I will write about the adventure in some detail on my site.
 
what fps is the video? I can't honestly tell the difference (I game at 75 fps so maybe I'm not the best judge)
 
Very cool, but no idea if 100fps makes a difference in person. You tell us, worth the jump from 40?

Must have been a huge show overhaul from a wiring/controllers/networking point of view. I shudder to think how much work that would be.
 
Johnnyboy said:
Very cool, but no idea if 100fps makes a difference in person. You tell us, worth the jump from 40?

Must have been a huge show overhaul from a wiring/controllers/networking point of view. I shudder to think how much work that would be.
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As long as you stay under about 300px per port, you can do it pretty straightforward. Anyone not doing power injection is likely at that limit anyway.
 
Skymaster said:
As long as you stay under about 300px per port, you can do it pretty straightforward. Anyone not doing power injection is likely at that limit anyway.
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Maybe i'm thinking how hard it would be for me.

I run almost every channel at around 600 pixels.

quite a few new controllers etc.
 
Yeah if you're port packing or using things like smart receivers chained then absolutely it'll be harder to split up.
 
Skymaster said:
As long as you stay under about 300px per port, you can do it pretty straightforward. Anyone not doing power injection is likely at that limit anyway.
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That. Everything is near to a controller, and I use the controller ports for power, and if you are doing that you may as well send data too... so, I might have split a dozen ports to get below 300 (spooky tree, fan arches, radio, come to mind) and this was easy because I used standard 50- and 100-node strings and most of the xConnectors are still there on the back. Pushed a couple of Hinks controllers toward simpler applications where there were no 300s. Also, I had already gotten rid of all my smart receivers in 2023/2024 to make my setup much easier and more flexible.

If you have a lot of 600s, you can still do 50FPS, which is 10 more than 40.
 
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