Interesting Tbone.
I thought RJ worked thru all those issues back when he came up with the concept. I do know however, that the Pixels are now brighter and pulling more current so the old numbers may be off a bit.
Currently I am just testing in my shop with some good 25 foot lenths of either cat5e or cat6 but when I split it in two everything seems to be working alright. I have both SSC's running less than 40 pixels.
as far as cabling, my plan is to use cat6 but use the watherproof connectors on the element and have the RJ45's all in a protected encloure. Since this one element needs 3 SSC's, I am thinking of using a 4 port passive hub for this element and have it supplied by its own power supply. That will leave my SmartHub for elements that have less pixels but more of them.
We will see how it all turns out here soon!
Ultimately I will have either 2 or 4 Fasteddy candles (22 pixels each), my merry Christmas sign (which is turning out pretty cool), 4 fasteddy candy canes, and some acrylic globes or coroplast shapes with 3 or 4 pixles a piece for my trees. I am also building 5 RGB arches using HDPE 2 inch pipe. They are turning out pretty cool too.
When I get them closer to complete I will post some pictures!
Mike
(Wow, no that I count them up, it will be a lot of pixels and a whole lot more channels)