I was soldering 3 pin leads onto my 20x120 flex strips this weekend. got in the groove, 3 1/8" shrink tubing, larger 1/2" clear tubing. wired some up, checked them. perfect.
sat down and wired the pile.
I didnt notice that after 4 strings, the flex strips were wound on the reels backwards.,
After 15 strings, i tested again. 9 didn't work. That is when i noticed i had wired connectors on the out side of the strip.
heads up, look at the little arrow and don't assume that all strings are wound on the reels the same way.
i know, dumb error. and i dont even drink.
trying to get mega-tree completed so i can get back to fixing bugs in nutcracker.
thanks