I want to try to keep cost to a minimum because the F48 and 3 differential boards will cost me around $380NZD and I don't want to purchase separate boards to use dumb RGB strips. 2018 I made my own controller using an Arduino with transistor switching boards.
I have 25 boards each with 6 NPN transistors on it (Transistor board.png).
I want to buy a string of pixels without any water proofing on them (PixelNode.png), take out the LED and connect each of the three connection R, G, B to a transistor on my previously made boards (ConnectionIdea.png).
I would then need to tell Xlights that those channels are individual rather than 3 channels making up a pixel. The only main concern I have is that the LED on the board my use a common positive and the chip connects a leg of the LED to negative to turn on (NotIdeal.png), my boards need a positive connection to turn on which will require the nodes board to use a common negative (Ideal.png).
[Edit Jan 2021: The F48 and 4 diff boards cost me $448.24NZD in 2019, so much for being cheap!]
I have 25 boards each with 6 NPN transistors on it (Transistor board.png).
I want to buy a string of pixels without any water proofing on them (PixelNode.png), take out the LED and connect each of the three connection R, G, B to a transistor on my previously made boards (ConnectionIdea.png).
I would then need to tell Xlights that those channels are individual rather than 3 channels making up a pixel. The only main concern I have is that the LED on the board my use a common positive and the chip connects a leg of the LED to negative to turn on (NotIdeal.png), my boards need a positive connection to turn on which will require the nodes board to use a common negative (Ideal.png).
[Edit Jan 2021: The F48 and 4 diff boards cost me $448.24NZD in 2019, so much for being cheap!]
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