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[QUOTE="Tory Street Lights (NZ), post: 100891, member: 116"] Hi Mark, Nice to hear from yet another "Kiwi", thankyou for your nice comments about the setup, it maybe a bit cumbersome, but it works for me. The "Old Renard" controllers do exactly what they are intended to do reliably, which is more than the ESPixel stick Radios did for me this year, hence my planning to purchase a Falcon F16v3 to do the work for me next year. I am afraid I am not up with the play with your construction of dumb RGB strings and controllers, the "Aussie" guy's that offered advice are far better informed than I so I will leave it to them to guide you. I modify any regular LED strings that I get from suppliers like Bunnings/Mitre 10/Warehouse/Kmart and add an extra current limiting resistor in each set of 10 Led's, a 470 Ohm resistor does the trick, and where necessary I rearrange the sets of LED's so that they are all lit when a DC powersupply is connected to the start of the string. I then add a bridge rectifier to the start of the string so that it will operate without flicker from a 24 Volt AC supply. The current batch of Icicles from Bunnings have a pulsewidth multi-effect controller on their ends, I have modified several thousand of those LED's by cutting and reversing their wiring every 10 LED's (2 x drops) so that they all light up when powered from a DC supply, I then dunked them all in clear Lacquer to seal the back of them to help reduce water ingress and make them last longer! This modifying takes a lot of time but in my mind is well worthwhile as there is no half wave flicker, if only the Chinese manufacturers were not trying to cut their wire costs!! Cheers, Terry [/QUOTE]
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