'Dumb' RGB Lights Controller Advice

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Brettus

Brettus
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Hi,

Have decided on 'Dumb' RGB lighting for my mini trees. These are the lights

http://www.aliexpress.com/fm-store/701799/209889132-522236867/IP68-DC12V-input-12mm-through-hole-LED-channel-letter-RGB-color-100pcs-a-string.html

After advise from David and eddy, I am going to need a max of 6amps to run each of these lights. I intend to run 9 sets of these lights, but am needing a controller/s capable of running them. After looking through the ACL Manual on all the different types of controllers available, i cant see anyone controller capable of controlling all the lights off one board. I have found this one thou

http://www.aliexpress.com/fm-store/701799/209915969-378113147/Easy-DMX-LED-controller-dmx-decoder-driver.html

If i run one of these for each tree will this be ok??? and how do I link them to the one universe as it has no output do i just daisy chain them together???
 
These will work ok for your application or else use the AVD 48 channel DC controller which will give you the outputs and the current capacity needed.
 
ɟɐsʇǝppʎ said:
These will work ok for your application or else use the AVD 48 channel DC controller which will give you the outputs and the current capacity needed.
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Really??? If i want to run 9 of them thats combined total of 54amps, according to the manual its 20amps bank, 40 amps at most.
 
I ran 14 x 5m strips of RGB strip of an AVD 48 last year no problems
 
Brettus is using 100 counts dumb strings, not 5m strips though.

Using one 3 channel controller in the base of each tree is one solution.

You'd need to split the 8 tree load up into at least two DC boards. (DC24 for example)
 
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