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[QUOTE="shirec, post: 88297, member: 26300"] Yea, I like making them so the work is not so bad. If need be I could come up with a pretty fast assembly line and solder station... For people talking about cascading DMX. I did have that idea but the PCB does not support in and out DMX, only parallel. Which is why they are addressed with the device that device that's $20. There's also another issue with in and out cascading DMX and that is the voltage drop. Routing a large enough power cable and data cable as plug and play is not conceivable with 12v. Paralleling and addressing is much more simple and easier to wire. I run a 14 gauge speaker cable as a back bone and split of this with 4 wire security cable. I feel I have made it to much of a permanent installation which is what I am using it for as garden lighting and most would need it to be more plug and play. Another issue is finding the right PCB. Literally, the only one I have now also from Ray WU only supports an in channel for DMX (no out). There is no other PCB that will support an exact 10w LED. This is due to the 3 channels on the LED using varying voltages. This can be fixed with a constant current instead of a constant voltage decoder. Luckily Ray Wu has exactly this. Before this, I was using a constant voltage decoder attached to another PCB from RobG that was a constant current PWM controller linked below. This fitted in the larger 10w square flood lights. Didn't look as nice as the new ones. But worked all the same. I think someone asked about full colour mixing. They are standard 10w RGB leds with each channel supporting the 256 levels of dimming (if there is a different definition of colour mixing please let me know). I will link a video to the lights with a demo rainbow effect. Currently, my garden lights run through sequences on the free program called QLC+ or Qlight. I haven't had to much interest in them yet so I probably won't go out of my way to attempt cascading DMX at the moment. I was thinking about creating a standard kit that comes with say 5 to 10 lights and completely plug and play. Works directly with a controller with no programming required. This would be slightly costly to create even as a demonstration so I just thought I would try these lights first. For the person that linked that dm-100AC probably missed the AC part which I also missed first. Luckily I only bought one as a demo. As most people don't use AC for lighting as far as I am aware this PCB will not work. Also, AC transformers seem to be more costly. It took a lot of research because it doesn't come up with a lot of searches on google or Aliexpress but this is the PCB I use. Only Ray Wu sells this one. There is another vendor but its a slightly larger PCB. The only thing I can really offer is ease of use so someone else doesn't have to order every part and haggle to get better prices. Glue the LEDs with heat paste. solder all the components and the plugs etc. Test the fitting. To someone doorstep in 5 days over 30 days etc. In the end, I just think it's too complicated for most people. I need to come up with a way to make it less complicated or scrap the idea and try come up with some new business idea. Lighting for weddings anyone??? Appreciate everyones feed back and time, it's been fun either way. [URL]https://www.aliexpress.com/item/DM-102-300ma-3-channel-dmx-constant-current-decoder-DC12-24V-input-300ma-3-channel-output/32636590851.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.1cbx3n[/URL] [URL]https://www.tindie.com/products/RobG/10w-rgb-flood-light-kit-dumb-rgb/[/URL] [MEDIA=facebook]id=1874961969497359;type=video[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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