Hi, I have joined this group, in the hope I can get a little project off and running. Its for a village cricket club and the plan is to simply keep the social members upto date with scores around the county. Had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I have purchased 12 P5 Led Modules, the plan being to have thes in a single row of modules, 12 across and simply scroll the scores across. I am so, so new to this. I believe I can handle the coding, but my issue is getting the modules to work from the start. I believe I am going to need a power supply and controller, but it has also been suggested to me, that perhaps a Rasberry Pi to p5 Module breakout box. The project will be driven by a raspberry pi 5. None of this makes any sense to me at the moment and as such I look forward to chatting to the members and see if I can get this done. Its just a bit of fun, but would be nice to succeed for the club. Looking forwards to chatting with Everyone and go easy on the sport side of things. Not a cricket fan or rugby. I hail originally from Liverpool. Only one sport for me, Good Day to you all.
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I'd look at a colour light card to handle the P5 panels then use a Pi with FPP to connect them.
For power supplies, I'd recommend 5v meanwell - https://buildalightshow.com/20-power-supplies that's what I run on my P5 panels.
Are these indoor or outdoor panels?
For power supplies, I'd recommend 5v meanwell - https://buildalightshow.com/20-power-supplies that's what I run on my P5 panels.
Are these indoor or outdoor panels?
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Thank you Dom so much, thats a great start. They are outdoor panels but will be used indoor, sorry but I was not the person responsible for purchasing these modules. I am assumming I will require more than one power supply to power all 12 modules, I will look to order these so I can at least start to see the problems in front of me. I will get on to this and hopefully get things going, much appreciated. On the controller as this will be a single row of 12 Modules daisy chained to each other will one colourlight card suffice or will I require two, I found this one which may do the job, https://www.colorlight-led.com/colorlight-5a-75e/
Cheers
Paul
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Paul
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Can you post some pictures of the panels, I run 30 P5s with 3 power supplies.
It's unlikely that you would need more than 1 5V 320W power supply. The Meanwell 5V 320W is actually a 300W as it's limited to 60A.
You would have to check the actual panels that were purchased but it's unlikely that they would be more than about 15-20W per panel at 100% white. Even if they were at the maximum of 20W per panel you could still run 15. I would actually suspect that the panels are more in the region of 10W per panel and it's not likely that you're ever going to be running the panels at 100% white as being outdoor rated panels they are typically brighter than indoor and with the entire matrix lit up it would be somewhat like having car led driving lights on.
You would have to check the actual panels that were purchased but it's unlikely that they would be more than about 15-20W per panel at 100% white. Even if they were at the maximum of 20W per panel you could still run 15. I would actually suspect that the panels are more in the region of 10W per panel and it's not likely that you're ever going to be running the panels at 100% white as being outdoor rated panels they are typically brighter than indoor and with the entire matrix lit up it would be somewhat like having car led driving lights on.
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Those should work with a colour light, although finding the individual settings for them might be a PITA