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[QUOTE="B_P_J, post: 74876, member: 22291"] Welcome to ACL good to see more and more Coasties each year, I am from up at Hamlyn Terrace and have had a blast this year (even with the various issues due to the amount of rain we have had) my display is on until the new year if you feel like stopping buy, I am a big fan of Vixen and I am using the J1sys P12s for my whole display (I also have a P2 but not in use), so pretty happy with it, (see here for layout pic - [url=http://i.imgur.com/SdZWFUg.jpg]http://i.imgur.com/SdZWFUg.jpg[/url]) $3000 is a great start to get a really nice looking setup, other things to consider in your budget would be things like Solder, Heatshrink, Butane Gas (unless your iron is electric - but gas is fantastic for field work) - (surprising how much you will use of these) waterproof pigtails, waterproof junction boxes (higher IP rating the better - [url=http://www.dsmt.com/resources/ip-rating-chart/]http://www.dsmt.com/resources/ip-rating-chart/[/url]) brick clips if doing outlines, etc (otherwise Hot Glue and lots of it) and lots of fusing (see AAH for his HEX Fuses - [url=http://www.hansonelectronics.com.au/product/hexfuse/]http://www.hansonelectronics.com.au/product/hexfuse/[/url]) oh and lets not forget all the cable, I ended up running Cat5 to the Strips for Data & Negative and an additional Fig8 for power injection, On the tester side I always use the DA_E131 tester from here: [url=http://www.da-share.com/software/da_e131/]http://www.da-share.com/software/da_e131/[/url] with the lights connected to the P12 or P2 seems to do me fine and might save you a couple of dollars, ;) Great thing is your starting early, so you have a whole 10 months to purchase and start building, word of advice....... start your setup early, I left mine a little too late and spent many hours out there each night (still waiting for the divorce papers, lol) Enough rambling, here at ACL everyone is helpful and can point you in the right direction, with out everybody here I would have been struggling to get all mine sorted, but in the end all the nice words from the people as they are watching your show makes it all worth while, to see the smiles and joy on the kids and adults faces... Love it... proud to admit I have CLAP in a big way.... [/QUOTE]
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