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Wiring Pixels to Falcon F16V3
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[QUOTE="i13, post: 116990, member: 21708"] BAZMick is right. If you're going to run data from the controller without power, you need to make sure that the negative at the controller is at the same potential as the negative at the tree because it is used as a reference for the data. In other words, either connect the negative outputs from the controller to the lights alongside the data or run a wire from the negative output of the controller's power supply to the negative output of the lights' power supply or bus bar. Don't connect the positive between them because the power supplies will fight each other. In reality, you'll need more than one power supply to run that many pixels. This means you'll need multiple bus bars at least for the positives because these shouldn't be connected between multiple power supplies. I'm a little bit unsure how/why you have the data wires in two groups of three labelled "output 1" and "output 2" but I think you're on the right track other than the above point. Strip lights are a valid option. In my experience, they don't like blowing around in the wind so you'd need to mount them on something rigid so that they're not continuously bending throughout the season. [/QUOTE]
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