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[QUOTE="Whitey-, post: 133785, member: 39146"] Thanks Iain! That is very helpful. I've ended up going 2 inch (or thereabouts, 50mm) spacing pretty much everywhere for simplicity and I'm aiming for 1 inch (or 25mmish) spacing on my tree, as my mounting roll is 1 inch spaced - but we'll see how that goes once I start building! I've ordered now (all my pixels are from Light It Up), and run a few hundred short of my estimate needed, as I knew I was overestimating. I suspect depending on how I do the tree I might need to splice and resolder/heat shrink. I'm not opposed to doing so if the result is how I want, but we'll see how I feel after it's done 😄 . That makes sense, ta. Yeah I've been poking around and come across a few people who go white and paint them, which seems to be maybe the best compromise point. In fact... That looks amazing! I've never painted anything in my life (beyond line marking some things in the yard), so I'm super keen to give that a try. Cheers, I've ordered everything in white and (time permitting 😂) I'll give them a paint! I'm also now running the 'final version' of my list of anyone's curious. Green's ordered, yellow needs to be ordered, and red I need to work out specifically what/where to source. It's already out of date - I ended up buying T splitters, extension cables, pixel pliers and a tester as well from Light It Up, and I'm sure I'll find quite a few more things I haven't considered - but that's the fun of it, right? Over the next week or so (🤞) I'm going to move from my arduino PoC to an actual ESP32/WLED setup and start fiddling around with the programming, power injection points, 5v -> 3.3v stepping, and all the other fun stuff. Funny story, I ended up browsing the local Reject Shop while I was in a phone meeting and found a couple of cheap solar lanterns for $3 each so I grabbed them, brought them home and ripped them apart to see how they work (1.2v circuit with a cute 200mAH battery), thinking maybe I could chuck in a couple of 18650 batteries, step down and run a couple of WS2811s in the lantern and make them orange. We've since bought a bunch of random $2 shop halloween junk I plan to light up and set up in the yard before halloween - so we'll see how that goes. A good chance I think to build out some things on a small scale to see how it all works! [ATTACH type="full"]23882[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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