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[QUOTE="battle79, post: 103408, member: 4745"] Welcome, Their are quite a few members that are scattered around Melbourne. If you looking to see someone's setup, just start looking in the display location section and then message people to see if they are able to help you out. Myself, I am in Chirnside Park if your local to the area. While talking of location, maybe set your own up, even a rough suburb pin is enough to help people when looking at possibilities for buying/selling/helping with physical setup. As far as initial setup, you need only a few items to start playing. 1) A power supply - either 12V or 5V to match the pixels you buy 2) Pixels - Again 5V or 12V - I'll explain difference later. 3) Controller - Plugs into network (router) like a PC would, and outputs pixel data to lights 4) Sequencing software installed on a PC - Either xLights or Vixen3. Other choices exist, but I wouldn't bother myself. 5) Optional - Various pixel pigtails (connectors), weatherproof boxes, cable glands, power injection T's, ETC. Power supply, Pixels, and connectors all can be bought from Ray Wu, Ben Brown, Hanson Electronics, or various other vendors. Stay away from the American vendors as an Australian as you'll pay through the nose for shipping, and they all come from china first anyway. Controllers can be bought from various vendors, but I'd personally suggest a Falcon controller or Advatek. 5V or 12V - 5V is more energy efficient but you will need to power inject every 50 pixels or so. 12V uses more power as it wastes some dropping it back down at each pixel, but you can run 100 or more before having to inject power. To inject power you just run another 12V and Neutral cable from the power supply to the pixels directly to pixel 50. Hope that helps, Rowan [/QUOTE]
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