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[QUOTE="AAH, post: 97544, member: 543"] Welcome Darren I'd go with a Pi running Falcon Player to control things as they are so cheap and they free up your PC to do sequencing while the show is running. Mounting stuff to conduit makes for easy setup and tear down.Just make sure that you have room to be able to store the lengths (preferably with lights still on) when you pull things down. The cost of 350-400W power supplies isn't too much different to the 200W ones so it's pretty logical to go with 350-400W ones. WS2811/WS2812 or the compatible 3 wire chips is the most common and cost effective choice for pixels. Strips are great for long straight runs but are fragile if not looked after. They need to be attached to conduit or similar and not cable tied too tight. 5V pixel nodes are more energy efficient than 12V. For strip it's a trade off of the 1 led per pixel for 5V vs 3 leds per pixel for 12V. It is just a resolution choice really. 13.5mm pigtails is the weapon of choice for connections. 40m of lights at an assumed 5cm spacing (3cm is common for strips and about 7 max for "10cm" nodes) works out around 800 pixels. This can be done with 1 output of most controllers but the 40+ Amp load would need power injection. For that many pixels you have a choice of running of a Pixlite 16, Falcon F16 or 1 of the Pi based boards like my rPi-28D. A Pi, rPi-28D, 5V 400W power supply, some pigtails and a bunch of pixels is just about all that you need. The requirements are well within what you could build and install in weeks. [/QUOTE]
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