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[QUOTE="Notenoughlights, post: 125926, member: 25585"] For reference, I have about 150-200 of the little transformers you talk of (not bluetooth however) and only draw around 1500W with all of those running. To connect these, I use multiple dedicated circuits, but still end up having about 8 multiboards daisychained together, some may see this as unsafe, though the total loading of the entire "daisychain" is less than 200W well under the rating of the power boards. If you chose to go down the animated/musical sequence route: The transformers you have will not be suitable for controlling the lights with a sequence, as switching them on and off rapidly can destroy them and they have a very delayed on/off time, they won't like being dimmed should you chose to control the mains side, it would be advised to get a dedicated power supply and run them through a control board for example, one of the DC2811 2 channel controller boards that [USER=543]@AAH[/USER] sells on his website. With 60,000 LEDS on the roof running from a dedicated 30V power supply only drawing about 250W with all of them on. Bunnings/Kmart LED strings are very low power, each string is about 3.6W up to 15W when you dive into the 2000 LED strings. If you are concerned that a lot of Christmas lights may overload circuits in your house, try splitting them up to run from different circuits, this will eliminate overloading initially until you really get into the hobby, and if you are still unsure there, contact an electrician who will be able to sort something out for you. Pixels are where the power draw goes up significantly as they can draw about 70W (@12v) at full brightness with only 100 lit leds. [/QUOTE]
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