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Wiring Pixels to Falcon F16V3
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[QUOTE="HertzSwift, post: 116978, member: 30596"] Thank you for detailed response i13. For this year, I'm just going to focus on the mega tree, and maybe either pixels or dummy RGB for the house outline (gutters, roof pitch, windows etc) I'm still going to continue to use my other motifs, so I don't think I'll run into any output shortages with the F16V3. I has planning on using 12VDC compared to 5VDC becasue it takes less amperage to drive the same amount of pixels at a higher voltage, and amperage limits plays a big part/limitation in the planning. The sequence I use, you probably haven't heard of it, it's the" Silicone Chip Digital Lighting Sequencer" it's very archaic, but it has suited my needs, I will obviously need to move onto "xlights" with the pixels. I'm thinking I'll probably need to run both programs to run this years setup, the Silicone Chip Digital Lighting Sequencer to run the dummy RGB and motifys and xlights to run the pixels. Now to get both of them to run a sequence at the same time, another challenge to overcome. You mention running 108 pixels per output ( 2 x 54 strings), wouldn't 108 x 0.055 = 5.94 amps per channel, that would be likely to blow fuses? Even if I ran 90 pixels per output, 90 x 0.055 = 4.95 amps, if you then equate, 4.95 x 16 outputs, that's 79.2amps, the F16V3 is only rated to 64 amps. So perhaps power injection would be the way to go? Are my calculations correct? I've read that pixels are very bright when at 100%, should the power supply system be designed to work at the 100% limit? 0.050amps is the maximum draw of a pixel when working at 100%? Say if you were to power the pixels at 30%, would you design a power supply system to just work to that limit? Yes i have read the forum post about regulated and resistor pixels, my conclusion is that the difference is pretty minimal between the two! [/QUOTE]
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