I did so many splices, that I actually spliced a 7 node section into a circle by accident. !!! argh !!
And how many times do I have to put the heat shrink on last (instead of first) before I stop doing that! ... lol
I get so irritated after winding the wires together, only to find I forgot to put on the heat shrink tubing. And if you
get the iron too close (to the heat shrink) ... thats another thing I've learned not to do!
I'm also finding that dealing with Ray takes time and patience. It took a few iterations to get my initial order invoiced ...
and the 25 replacement nodes ... well he came back with an invoice for $3 off the total and charged me for the replacements,
incl. extra shipping. It was actually more money than just doing it online, so I sent him another email to attempt to make it right.
I've only got him on chat once so far, so its mostly one email per day.
I'm sure he'll get it right eventually, but you need time and patience to do all the back and forth to get the invoice right.
I really messed up by not inspecting the nodes really closely when I first got them ... and released the funds too early.
I am finding that the TH2010-x controller is a must for testing these things ... and is actually very cool.