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Chromatrim pixel mounting
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[QUOTE="djgra79, post: 103103, member: 1447"] Having recently picked up my first ever order of Chromatrim from Extreme Lighting Displays (thanks [USER=1217]@Troy ELD[/USER] :) ) I wanted to see what type of nodes work best with it. I originally had in mind to use square nodes, but wanted to see if bullets would also work. Firstly, the wire spacing is something to consider. I want to go with 2 inch node spacing in the chromatrim so I would need spacing of 3 inches between each node (not 3 inch wires...) to allow for some slack between each node. I have some of Ray's PROMOTION! nodes which have just over 3 in spacing: [GALLERY=media, 1066]Bullet 3in by djgra79 posted Jun 24, 2019 at 9:25 PM[/GALLERY] I also have a bunch of square nodes that were bought for my megatree. I'm going to use 5v for my roofline and these are 12v so will not be used, but am just fit testing for now. The spacing on these are 4.5 inches: [GALLERY=media, 1069]Square Node 4-5in by djgra79 posted Jun 24, 2019 at 9:25 PM[/GALLERY] Bullets were thought to stick out more than what square nodes do, but this may depend on the conduit used. In the below examples I am using 25mm conduit and you can see it's actually flush: [GALLERY=media, 1068]Bullet Pushed1 by djgra79 posted Jun 24, 2019 at 9:25 PM[/GALLERY] [GALLERY=media, 1067]Bullet Pushed Profile by djgra79 posted Jun 24, 2019 at 9:25 PM[/GALLERY] Square nodes are a smaller profile, but in my example, the longer wire length between each node becomes a bit combersome, so I'd like to try this again with 3 inch spacing. Something else to note whcih I'll also try is to rotate the square nodes 90deg so that the wires flow left tight right, not up and down. The reason they are this way is the little tabs for securing them actually pushed against the conduit and put stress and slightly mis-aligned the node direction through the front. I'll trim a handfull of these and show the results another day. [GALLERY=media, 1071]Square Node Pushed by djgra79 posted Jun 24, 2019 at 9:25 PM[/GALLERY] [GALLERY=media, 1070]Square Node Profile by djgra79 posted Jun 24, 2019 at 9:25 PM[/GALLERY] If anyone else has feedback or insights as to how they mount pixels with some visual examples, share here :) [/QUOTE]
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