wreaths using rgb?

[taybrynn]

I"m wondering if anyone has done RGB wreaths and approx. what the minimum amount of rgb lights for a small wreath would be.  I've got some wreaths that just go around the house coach lights and maybe put a 100ct of minis on each one previously.  Whats the minimum # of SS nodes or modules you would recommend on each of those.  I know I could probably do DSC with these if I wanted to.

[zwiller]

In my testing for minis I think 32 nodes have similar brightness as a 100ct strand of minis.  But of course YMMV. 

[mms]

I bought a small wreath (16" or so) from the thrift store for like $3 last year.  I used 30-32 nodes left over from doing window frames.  I would have liked a little more node density, but it still looked decent.

[jeffcoast]

I have a 4 foot wreath I wrapped 2 flexstrips around, I didn't have any pixel nodes, so made use of what I ordered.

[tbone321]

How did you wrap the flex strips around it?

[Mickpat]

I used 20 rectangle LEDs for my wreaths. Turned out pretty well.  Here is a quick video.  You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

[taybrynn]

I was thinking about 20 rect. modules per small wreath, since they are so much brighter than minis and have 3 LED(s) each.

[tbone321]

Is brighter really the way you want to go.  A few bright lights will probably wash out the wreath. 

[taybrynn]

Well thats a great question.  I'm going to be putting in RGB on all my rooflines (instead of 3 color C9(s)) and I'm afraid if I stayed with my current mini light wreaths, they will look dim or off colored in comparison.  TO be honest the entire RGB thing has me uneasy still.

[zwiller]

What do you mean when you say you are uneasy about RGB?   What sold me was the color saturation.  I did not like the way the incans looked with using RGB, incan white looks orangey compared to RGB or cool white.  In fact, I am ditching incans and hope to go all rgb this year. 

[keitha43]

The only thing I don't like is I never can get a purple or orange that looks as good as a true purple or orange led for halloween.

[taybrynn]

Just uneasy about mixing rgb and minis ... Tempted to move to rgb quicker

[drlucas]

The only thing I don't like is I never can get a purple or orange that looks as good as a true purple or orange led for halloween.

Even if you run xlights test mode with mixed colors and put it on slow? There isn't anything that looks good?

I use this to figure out the realm of possibility for color. Then brute force figure out the color.

[keitha43]

I tried colorfinder a couple of years ago but couldn't duplicate the exact colors of the purple and orange led strings.

[mms]

I found a good orange using:  FF3000 which I think is (255, 48, 0).

I have a few different purples on my "light color recipe" spreadsheet, but I don't have them memorized.  I can send in another post/thread as this one seems to have gotten off topic.

The colorfinder tool is very helpful, it just takes some patience.