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[QUOTE="videoman3857, post: 84987, member: 25346"] I am a 1 year old noob. My lights consist of retail light with their own controller, and computer controlled LED strings and RGB dumb pixels. My retail lights are my main feature with a 3 mtr Midi tree using 12 sets of coloured and 12 sets of white sets of lights. These 24 controllers are connected to power boards housed in a "Stackable lock lid storage box" It houses the power boards comfortably, The lid seals over the body well. I have cut a small nick out of the top for the power lead to fit into the box without causing distortion to the lid. I have experienced torrential rain (50mm or there abouts) Opened the lid after the rain and everything was dry as a bone. My one warning to you, is that if you purchase the retail chain-store lights and the "Christmas light bug" bites and you want to connect your lights to computerised controllers (like me) you are in for a shock Most of the in built controllers on these lights use two wires to illuminate the lights and use electronics to flip flop between the two sets of lights on the string. In layman's terms if you have 600 lights on your string of lights and turn your controller to "on" all 600 would light up. If you took the connector and plugged it into a transformer of the same voltage with out the "in Built controller" only 300 would illuminate - every second one would not turn on. The older style lights used 3 wires. One for the positive connection of all the led. The other two wires would connect to the negative of each alternate LED. This was easy to control with a "Standard" computerised controller. The new lights need a different type of controller which was specifically designed and built by some members of this community. [/QUOTE]
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