BradsXmasLights
WiFi Interactive
Greetings!
I'd like to "re-roof" the house roof outline with RGB pixel strips this year. I'll probably need 35-40m worth, or 7-8 x 5m lengths.
My plan is to then cut the strips to attach the strips on to sections of 20mm conduit cut to the approimate lengths for the roof line. These conduits will also be mounted to my tin roof using beefy magnets, with some sort of daisy chain connections where required. Also from security perspective, I plan to run a simple 'tamper loop' circuit as well, so if it's unepectingly disconnected an alarm can be triggered.
I've yet to puchase any pixel controller, but I'm leaning towards an ECG-PIXAD8.
So my questions:
A) What RGB pixels stripes are people currently recommending? (Not too worried about 5/8/12 bit fading. I suppose technically 8bit fading would be nice, but in reality even 5bit 'rainbow style fading' effects will be enough to amaze everyone???) Only real perference is that it's a true pixel, rather than seperate LEDs.
B) With the ECG-PIXAD8 controller being centrally located, the cable run distance to first pixel issue arrises. How have people gone with this factor? I'm considering building some 'repeater' cables using single RGB pixel LEDs every few meters. Or would I be better off pumping DMX out and using multiple smaller DMX to pixel bridges?
I'd like to "re-roof" the house roof outline with RGB pixel strips this year. I'll probably need 35-40m worth, or 7-8 x 5m lengths.
My plan is to then cut the strips to attach the strips on to sections of 20mm conduit cut to the approimate lengths for the roof line. These conduits will also be mounted to my tin roof using beefy magnets, with some sort of daisy chain connections where required. Also from security perspective, I plan to run a simple 'tamper loop' circuit as well, so if it's unepectingly disconnected an alarm can be triggered.
I've yet to puchase any pixel controller, but I'm leaning towards an ECG-PIXAD8.
So my questions:
A) What RGB pixels stripes are people currently recommending? (Not too worried about 5/8/12 bit fading. I suppose technically 8bit fading would be nice, but in reality even 5bit 'rainbow style fading' effects will be enough to amaze everyone???) Only real perference is that it's a true pixel, rather than seperate LEDs.
B) With the ECG-PIXAD8 controller being centrally located, the cable run distance to first pixel issue arrises. How have people gone with this factor? I'm considering building some 'repeater' cables using single RGB pixel LEDs every few meters. Or would I be better off pumping DMX out and using multiple smaller DMX to pixel bridges?