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[QUOTE="burto51, post: 104323, member: 24836"] Hello JKay83, Well hope you know what you are letting yourself in for; its probably too late to do a lot this year with controllers etc. It takes a lot of time to build models, sequence sort out power supply's. But you can get a bit of a display together for this year and then if you wish expand next year. for the windows you could get either some strip say WS2811 led 12 volt at say 30 led per metre at the end of each strip you would have a connector, don't forget that they only allow current in one direction, there are arrows near the black IC on the strip,if you reverse them no lights or WS2811 12v nodes on a string there are 100 nodes per string at 100mm spacings. you could zip tie the strip to some conduit most use 20mm conduit; zip tie across the copper pads not the IC or led; if you use the string lights you can zip tie anywhere to "control" the lights you can get Pixel testers which will produce a number of patterns to power the light use say a 360watt 12 volt power supply. you may need a number of power supplies You also may need to inject voltage along the line to combat the voltage drop, however if each "string" is 100 or less you could be right. You will have to sort how you are going to mount them to the windows, working on the roof is fraught with danger. To compliment the windows, you could try bending some conduit to form arches and place these in the garden/lawn Hope this gives you some ideas, if you need help ask. There are no stupid questions just a very steep learning curve. Burto51 [/QUOTE]
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