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[QUOTE="MrX, post: 97364, member: 27776"] Howdy, Last year we moved into a house with a nice street frontage and thought I would get into the Christmas lights thing. Being green at it I just bought a mish mash of lights and hung them up and all was good, until I discovered 8211's existed, as such what I did last year just won't do anymore. I have a technical background, I play with APIs, IoT devices etc, so electrical things, programming, etc are not scary, just new elements to learn. Earlier in the year I purchased some bits to play with to get used to the tech before I took the plunge. Right now I have an E682 controller board, which is cool but I am eyeing off the Falcon. I have my test string of 100 x12mm pixels in a matrix on a bit of cardboard at the moment and am having fun with XLights. I also have a an AllPixel USB board and playing making some hand crafted animations with the Python libraries but cannot seem to get it working with XLights. Those boards may be a bust if I cannot them to integrate into the main system. It seems I have my head partially around the tech now so I have ordered a bunch of stuff from Ray Wu. I still need to work out what I will use as a computer controller, I have a bunch of computing choices so that is no big deal. The main thing that I am still not decided on is power. I wouldn't mind making the light show a feature of the house and making parts of it permanent so to avoid extension cords all over the place I am considering permanent. It seems I can do it myself it is low voltage DC so am tossing up a centralised 48 volt system to help with voltage drop with outlets with back converters at strategic places to go down to 12. It also means that data wires can share the same conduits. Curious to know if this is the done thing or if I am missing something which means this is crazy. I guess there are also some bits and pieces like cable management, enclosures and FM transmitter to consider. All in good time I guess. That's about it from me, this looks to be a fun thing to do. Cheers. [/QUOTE]
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