Porsche
Full time elf
Hay guys, Im looking to build a mega tree over Dec for next years show.
Ive never built one before nor ran a show, so early days.
i have a DC 48 controller, a few different power supplies and a tree frame I built a while go thats about 3.6m high with a base of approx 1.2m.
i was thinking to have 16x100pcs of RGB dumb strings around the tree. each string of 10m (5m up and 5m down) so really 32 strings. but when working out power usge (assuming im doing that right also) it would require massive power supply. which tells me maybe ive gone over board.
I worked out that Ray wu's RGB dumb strings use approx 72watt per 100 pcs, so in my case that would equal about 1152watt of power. which I thought is a pretty big task. the specs on the product say .3watt but have been told that in reality they use about .72watt per LED.
am I adding too many strings to this Tree??
Can someone please advise on a tree this size what would be sufficent and have a good effect.
cheers
phil
Ive never built one before nor ran a show, so early days.
i have a DC 48 controller, a few different power supplies and a tree frame I built a while go thats about 3.6m high with a base of approx 1.2m.
i was thinking to have 16x100pcs of RGB dumb strings around the tree. each string of 10m (5m up and 5m down) so really 32 strings. but when working out power usge (assuming im doing that right also) it would require massive power supply. which tells me maybe ive gone over board.
I worked out that Ray wu's RGB dumb strings use approx 72watt per 100 pcs, so in my case that would equal about 1152watt of power. which I thought is a pretty big task. the specs on the product say .3watt but have been told that in reality they use about .72watt per LED.
am I adding too many strings to this Tree??
Can someone please advise on a tree this size what would be sufficent and have a good effect.
cheers
phil