New at this. After this past Christmas season, I decided to start a new hobby and love LED's. I'm upgrading last years modest and old, house-lined 120v dumb C7 LED light system to a 12v smart LED system. I purchased (not shipped yet) some pre-sale Holiday Coro, Pixel RGB Bullet 2811 with 6" spacing (should have got the 4" or 3") 8 sets, some mounting hardware and pigtails, $200 worth. Ouch. Now I have to make a decision on the controller/s. I plan to have only about 4-6 universes/outputs this year but more than likely will add more over the years. I installed xLights and started playing with it, intimidating but fun-ish. I also set-up a FPP. I like the Falcon F16v3 but that's another $200 plus. By December I'm sure the total will be well over $800. Looking at most videos on the net, $800 is nothing. My 1st question is, should I commit to the Falcon ecosystem @ $200 for the F16v3, $120 for the F4v3 or some other like LOR. Looking forward to this new and exciting hobby, but this could get expensive.
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Welcome to ACL and the blinky addiction! I would highly recommend the F4v3. There is plenty of room for expansion in the future with differential expansion and receivers with the F4v3. You wont find a better product or support than DPitts and Falcon! I love my Falcons
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Welcome to ACL Johnny812.
Welcome to the new and exciting hobby - and yes it can get expensive - especially if you get bitten by the bug.
We here in Oz are a wee bit biased to the Falcon family of boards - not all of us, but most. ,
Not many use LOR. Especially the pixi range as they only work on a LOR network.
I concur with UncleDan in his recommendation of the F4V3
Have fun and don't let the Christmas Light bug bite.
Welcome to the new and exciting hobby - and yes it can get expensive - especially if you get bitten by the bug.
We here in Oz are a wee bit biased to the Falcon family of boards - not all of us, but most. ,
Not many use LOR. Especially the pixi range as they only work on a LOR network.
I concur with UncleDan in his recommendation of the F4V3
Have fun and don't let the Christmas Light bug bite.
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Thanks, VideoMan, but that Christmas Light Bug is just a nipping...... and will try to keep it at bay.
I did place an order for an F4v3 Controller, an F4v2 Differential, a 4-String Receiver and an F8-Distro just in case. Thanks, UncleDan!!
Now it's on to layout planning, sequencing and building a prop or two.
ACL ROCKS!!
Thanks again for all the help so far.
I did place an order for an F4v3 Controller, an F4v2 Differential, a 4-String Receiver and an F8-Distro just in case. Thanks, UncleDan!!
Now it's on to layout planning, sequencing and building a prop or two.
ACL ROCKS!!
Thanks again for all the help so far.