DMX2-24 with Lexi Lighting acrylic led lights

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shaunosxmaslights

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Hi,

I have the following acrylic led lights which I would ideally like to be able to incorporate in to xlights without the risk of "blowing up" any of the these lights:

https://www.lexilighting.com.au/col...ta-stop-here-sign-w-metal-floor-sticker-h85cm
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https://www.lexilighting.com.au/col...t/products/acrylic-santa-sleigh-with-reindeer
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https://www.lexilighting.com.au/collections/acrylic-led-light/products/acrylic-dachshund-dog-h36cm
https://www.lexilighting.com.au/col...roducts/acrylic-sitting-cute-reindeer-h40cm-1
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I'm hoping someone with more electrical knowledge may be able to tell me whether or not, a bunch of these aforementioned Lexi Lighting led lights can be controlled together with a DMX2-24, rather than the individual plugs that they come with (i.e. how they are currently setup)?
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Looking at the plugs there, 31V and being a multifunction controller, I'd hazard a guess and say yes - that seems like it'd work.
Is it a two-pin connector to the lights?
 
I'm going to say no. The 2-24 is designed for 2 wire bidirectional strings that run on AC low voltage. The power supplies you picture output 31v DC. The dash/dotted symbol after the voltage. For AC you would look for ~ after the voltage
You may want a 2811DC-15 or 30 for these.
 
Skymaster said:
Looking at the plugs there, 31V and being a multifunction controller, I'd hazard a guess and say yes - that seems like it'd work.
Is it a two-pin connector to the lights?
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Yeah, they're using a 2 pin style connector very similar to Ray Wu's but they seem to have a slightly different barrel depth.
 
It could also be as NEL mentions above, they are DC strings. They will work on a DMX2-24, but you'll be burning a channel - ie. they will light with either channel 1 or 2, but not both - and you can only control the entire string on/off, not half at a time.
A DC dimmer would also have the same limitation.
 
Notenoughlights said:
I'm going to say no. The 2-24 is designed for 2 wire bidirectional strings that run on AC low voltage. The power supplies you picture output 31v DC. The dash/dotted symbol after the voltage. For AC you would look for ~ after the voltage
You may want a 2811DC-15 or 30 for these.
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Yeah, I think you're on the money. I've uploaded a couple of additional images of the other power supplies and they each have a solid and dashed line (i.e. DC) after the output voltage vs the ~ which is included after the AC input voltage.

I may have to toss up whether it's worth incorporating these into a light sequence with a 2811DC-30 or leave them as static lights and put the dollarbucks towards a baldrick controller for 12V pixels next year?
 
Notenoughlights said:
What does the button on the MFC/PSU do, flashing or static mode and that's it? Does it have 8 functions etc?
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For the "Santa Stop Here" sign and a couple of the reindeer lights, it's either steady on, or timer. But I've also got a couple of these Lexi Lighting Wifi Tuya App-Control adaptor which have the 8 function button and looks like this:
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These are said to "Works on Most Lights 31-33V 8.4W or Less".
 
shaunosxmaslights said:
For the "Santa Stop Here" sign and a couple of the reindeer lights, it's either steady on, or timer. But I've also got a couple of these Lexi Lighting Wifi Tuya App-Control adaptor which have the 8 function button and looks like this:


These are said to "Works on Most Lights 31-33V 8.4W or Less".
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Yeah the voltage and wattage are the only things that matter, I've got probably 250-350 of those adapters in a huge bin, I just pull something rated for the light set out, so long as the wattage is higher or equal to the light string it will run fine.. i.e a 3.6w adapter on a string of lights rated for a 15W adapter will work.. just be very dim, and the adapter will hate your guts and probably not last very long.

That adapter in the photo, if it outputs DC and has 8 functions, probably has the weird addressable leds that send pulses down the power line to change their colours, similar to Twinkly light sets but done in a far less fashionable way.
 
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