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[QUOTE="AAH, post: 99875, member: 543"] I would say the the F16 V2 and V3 are the most common but there are lots of others out there including the Falcon F48 which allows a centralised control and longer distance to props, the Advatek Pixlite range, the San Devices E68xx boards, Light-O-Rama pixel controllers and many Pi or Beaglebone Black based ones. The size of the display, the physical size of the display and what you want things to look like can affect what controllers you choose. 2811 and it's variants are the normal choice for pixels with 2811, 2812, 2813 and lots of others in the same family. They all do the same thing and the data is essentially the same. The variations govern whether it's a separate pixel chip to the led or integrated into the led, some backup data ability and a few other features. Among the biggest choices are whether to go with 5V or 12V. 5V will always give you 1 led per pixel. 12V strip is 3 leds per pixel and 12V nodes use twice the power (roughly) of 5V ones. The 5V versus trade off is whether you want to look after the power well enough to only have a 0.5V voltage drop compared to the 2-3V that 12V strip can handle up to the 5V drop that 5V nodes can tolerate. The next major choice is which sequencer to use. You could go with Xlights ver 2018.56, ver 2018.55 or even 1 of the older versions. Xlights is the most common sequencer but Vixen 3 is another free choice or Light-O-Rama is also available if you have more money than sense or are unwilling to branch away from the much simpler interface and features of LOR. [/QUOTE]
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