prontoheal
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- Dec 30, 2013
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Hi everyone,
For the past 6 years I have been messing around with the idea if starting to computers my Christmas lights. Every year I leave it to later and I end up placing my store bought lights up (which do look good for a basic setup), as I packed away my lights this year I counted about 5000 to 7000 LED's and I thought I could incorporate these with some that I could sync and dance.
I have been reading the forums everyday coming up with a couple of additions to my display to aid in it popping or just looking different.
So with all of this in mind I am thinking of doing the following:
- I am thinking about replacing a 60 meter run of blue BigW LED which I place within my white rocks near my front door and front deck the white rocks is about which you can see about 50 cm of rocks either side of my walkway deck ( this makes a little river effect) - I am thinking with these going with LED strip Blue lights for this
- I am also thinking about making a couple of mini trees I have started thinking about 5 to start with and I am thinking about wrapping the the mini trees with WS2811 DC12V 100 node RGB pixel nodes.
- and finally building 3 or 4 arches using a heap of BIG W LED lights which I have so much in boxes since I have white, blue, multi colours.
So I am thinking about getting approx (only ideas right now
- 10 x DC12v-5m-one-roll-5050-SMD - 30LED/m LED strip (this is for my river)
- 5 x 100 node -DC12V-input ws2811 pixel node RGB
For the controllers I was tempted to go down the E1.31 line (as I like my computer networks since this is my job in real life) and I was thinking about the J1SYS or the Sandevice E681 ( but open for advice on these or others)
For the Software I have been playing around with Vixen3 over the past couple of weeks since I started to come up this plan and I kinda like it very easy to use as well as easy to get lost for hours in.
I know I need transformers and such but I haven't looked at this as yet as I wanted to see if I have bitten to much.
I want to make my display grow every year and also something I want my now 4 year old son to go WOW. and also something that looks tasteful.
Thanks and in advance thanks for the advice
Adam
For the past 6 years I have been messing around with the idea if starting to computers my Christmas lights. Every year I leave it to later and I end up placing my store bought lights up (which do look good for a basic setup), as I packed away my lights this year I counted about 5000 to 7000 LED's and I thought I could incorporate these with some that I could sync and dance.
I have been reading the forums everyday coming up with a couple of additions to my display to aid in it popping or just looking different.
So with all of this in mind I am thinking of doing the following:
- I am thinking about replacing a 60 meter run of blue BigW LED which I place within my white rocks near my front door and front deck the white rocks is about which you can see about 50 cm of rocks either side of my walkway deck ( this makes a little river effect) - I am thinking with these going with LED strip Blue lights for this
- I am also thinking about making a couple of mini trees I have started thinking about 5 to start with and I am thinking about wrapping the the mini trees with WS2811 DC12V 100 node RGB pixel nodes.
- and finally building 3 or 4 arches using a heap of BIG W LED lights which I have so much in boxes since I have white, blue, multi colours.
So I am thinking about getting approx (only ideas right now
- 10 x DC12v-5m-one-roll-5050-SMD - 30LED/m LED strip (this is for my river)
- 5 x 100 node -DC12V-input ws2811 pixel node RGB
For the controllers I was tempted to go down the E1.31 line (as I like my computer networks since this is my job in real life) and I was thinking about the J1SYS or the Sandevice E681 ( but open for advice on these or others)
For the Software I have been playing around with Vixen3 over the past couple of weeks since I started to come up this plan and I kinda like it very easy to use as well as easy to get lost for hours in.
I know I need transformers and such but I haven't looked at this as yet as I wanted to see if I have bitten to much.
I want to make my display grow every year and also something I want my now 4 year old son to go WOW. and also something that looks tasteful.
Thanks and in advance thanks for the advice
Adam