Arranging SS nodes

[t.jo13]

I was planning on getting into RGB next year, but my wife wants to add 2 more colors of icicles this year.(have 3 now) So here is the problem: I can do anything I want with the display as long as my wife gets her icicles. Now adding 2 more colors of good quality lights will cost $250.to 400. enclosed is a diagram of what I would like to do. I know i would have to inject power , and it will be alot of work. but can it be done? Now if it can, would I be able to group all the nodes so they just change to the coors I want or is there a limit? Is the chip 8 bit and 256 color? The colors I would want are white, blue, red and green. the coolwhite icicles would still have to be used

[Slite]

I don't understand why you wouldnt be able to, there are just a couple of things you have to remember when it comes to Smart Strings..

Each "string" must have it's own SSC (Smart String controller). One string can NOT under any circumstances be longer than 128 nodes. The SSC can NOT be longer than (to be on the safe side) 8 feet from the first node on the string. You have to get a cat5 cable to each SSC

Apart from that, since each node is totally independant from any other node and can have it's colour/effect set to anything that you can think of (more or less).

I think it would be a pain in the buttski to sequence though

[rm357]

If you are doing smart strings, it's 24 bit color. You can do any color you want per node... You could program them in string mode (all the same color), but that's boring...

You could make sequencing fancy color effects easier by sticking with a fixed pattern -say 1,3,1,5 then programming it as a 10x?? Matrix remembering that 1,2,5,&6 are the line with the others being the hanging ones...

RM

[bwhite505]

The colors I would want are white, blue, red and green. the coolwhite icicles would still have to be used

You can get cool white from the SS nodes. In fact you can do almost any color in the RGB specturm. 

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Brian

[mkozik1]

The colors I would want are white, blue, red and green. the coolwhite icicles would still have to be used

You can get cool white from the SS nodes. In fact you can do almost any color in the RGB specturm. 

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Brian

Nice link Brian - Certainly bookmarked that one !!

Mark - Georgia

[chrisatpsu]

you can't get all of the colors from that color chart.

[sjb]

Thanks for the link Brian.

Chris, I do not quite understand. Why can you not get all the colors with this, as you can put in up to 255 in each color and when dealing with a light spectrum I believe this works. Does this not give you all colors? I know that when printing you need cmyk but with light I thought that the true primary colors were Yellow, Mageta, Cyan or RGB opposite.

[chrisatpsu]

try putting rgb into your rgb strips...
r 128
g 64
b 0

what color do you get?

[chrisatpsu]

that's just one example that i know of

[sjb]

you get a tan color

[chrisatpsu]

in paint, it's brown, on a smart sting it is not brown

[sjb]

That is interesting, with not having any SS I would have thought this would help.

[chrisatpsu]

it works for most of it, that's one color that it doesn't do that i'm aware of (other than greys) but a lot of it does work.

[mkozik1]

Chris,

Just wondering if you know off the top of your head if the three colors can produce a warm white instead of a cool white.  My wife cannot stand the bright white that most of the LED's put off today and would rather the warm white.

Mark - Georgia

[chrisatpsu]

i just tried rgb  255,255,64     give that a shot, it's a softer white