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[QUOTE="Jerry-Rigs, post: 47349, member: 22416"] A bit more of my plans... I always have to make the build or buy trade decision. I would dearly love to build everything but time is more valuable to me than money. If someone else has made something good enough for a little more than I can build it, I will often buy. Ray Wu has a really good rep in the community so I wouldn't have a problem buying from him but for large chunks of cash, I would prefer to buy from a US supplier in case there are problems with shipping/damage/etc. I am somewhat likely to buy a bunch or water proof 4 pin connector pigtails from Ray for my dumb RGB LED elements. I want error resistant complete interconnect no matter where I got the elements. I also need matching extension cords. I have 3 Rainbow Floods and several floods and spots still to assemble but I think any new floods will be LOR's 10W RGB Floods. They hit the right price to decide the build or buy question. Of course Seasonal Entertainment and LOR plugs are incompatible, so Mr. Wu looks like a stable enough supplier of connector pigtails I am unlikely to go for LOR CCR's. A little pricey and 3 "bulbs" per pixel if I read it right. I could go to Wu but bear with me through a detour. Considering I have a lot of network gear and raw Cat-5, I like the idea of E1.31 (DMX over LAN) a lot. I am looking real hard the E682. The specs are great. I like the accessory +5v out to power a small ethernet hub and facilitate daisy-chaining. Nice feature. Seasonal Entertainment is running a pre-sale right now and has a good package price on a complete E682 setup: board, enclosure, power supply, 16 strings (choice of 5v, 12v, round, square) for about $800. SanDevices has their package deal too, but I would be getting pixel strings myself, likely from a Chinese supplier (Wu) with my associated perceived risks. <end detour> I'm still sourcing and pricing but I will likely get my pixel gear from SE. I hope 2 E682's and 24+ pixel strings for my tree and windows. Right now, I am sold on 12v so I can worry less about injection. I am thinking about some null pixel extension cords so I can reach more widely separated elements from one controller (another need for a pigtail supplier). I have S3 Advanced and I will be looking at Nutcracker. I've looked at several editors and they are all running together right now. I may end up using multiple editors and then exporting everything to S3 for control. --jr [/QUOTE]
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