12v Bullets vs Seeds/Pebbles

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mstan87

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Hi all, going to order some more pixels and trying to decide whether I get bullet nodes or seed/pebbles as seeds/pebbles I can get double the amount than the bullets. These are the 2 options

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Thoughts? Pros/Cons. I mainly have all bullets at the moment on my props and mega tree, have had a bad last 2 years with failures.
 
I don't notice any light output colour difference.
New (left), weathered for two seasons (right).
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Those seed poppers are a bit of a main to get used to push compared to bullets and add a couple of mm to the size. Some of my props are really tight on a couple of locations but they all work ok. I used them on singing faces and candy canes.
I'm going with seeds again this year but I am going to focus on matrixes mostly, only had a few failures on my mega tree from wind and bad cable tie locations on my behalf.

Just thought of 2 things to add, I've pretty much thrown out all my bullets from my 2022 show, I got sick of replacing 10 a night and using sckotchlocks like a madman at twilight. I know 2022 was a bad year for bullets but the price and durability is why I am sticking to seeds.

Also you can get seeds in standard lengths now (50,100s and 200s) and if you are able the pixel poppers are about 25% cheaper on Ali Baba, but I haven't bought from the seller there. Ray Wu supplied all mine last year, if you buy the rolls of them for a mega tree or matrix make sure you cut off one and test, some of mine were labelled wrong last year.
 
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Thanks for the replies guys. I decided to test out the seeds and grabbed 2000 of them. Cheers!
 
andrewa said:
I am finding that the seeds can hang out of the poppers resulting in the need to hot glue each of the seeds to the poppers
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There are better ways to mount seed pixels. I've just been modifying a 3wire version to a 4wire version over the last few nights. Printed out a few and they are very snug in coro/strips. Shouldn't need any hot glue to place them tightly. Will be making some up over the next few weeks.
 
Johnnyboy said:
There are better ways to mount seed pixels. I've just been modifying a 3wire version to a 4wire version over the last few nights. Printed out a few and they are very snug in coro/strips. Shouldn't need any hot glue to place them tightly. Will be making some up over the next few weeks.
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My comment is directly related to the poppers in the first post. That is the pack and those are the items I purchased that need hot glue to keep them in place
 
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