current stance on the node smart string setup

[taybrynn]

I put my flex strips in clear vinyl tubing and cut it into 3-4 pieces to make fishing it through a snap.  Then I zip tie that tubing
onto the $1.25 electricial conduit and have the lights inside the tubing facing down.  THey are plenty bright and the light diffuses
off the tubing nicely and they are mostly protected.  The zip ties then use the tubing to crimp on instead of crushing the flex strip.
So far, working perfecting.  Have one stuck pixel on one of the strips ... its always green, but seems to sequence through with
programming fine.  Ordered the tubing online cause it was so much cheaper and got around 100' for $30-35 or so.

[injury]

Ordered the tubing online cause it was so much cheaper and got around 100' for $30-35 or so.

Smart move. I was at ACE looking at clear tubing to fish nodes through for water protection and ran the numbers and decided it was too costly.

[dpitts]

What are you using for your falling icicles?
Please post a link.

I have many pixel strings of the 2nd generation and have had no problems.  The 128's work great, all are sealed and have not leaked in many days of rain.  I have pulled on them with no problems.  Out of the hundreds of pixels I have found only one bad one.  Its still out there on the middle portion of the sidewalk.  Here is a link to my videos, a couple of them talk about this stuff.  Oh and I have also walked all over them, some are on the ground.

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[cBell]

Ordered the tubing online cause it was so much cheaper and got around 100' for $30-35 or so.

Where did you get your tubing from?

[taybrynn]

Got the tubing here:

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[TheBanker]

Dpitts I got them from a group buy on lone star holidays forum.  The guys name is Scott and there is a thread I'll try and find and link here.


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[sielbear]

Here is how I attached my Smart String controllers to the Eaves...

I just used the mini light clips and kept the SSCs out of the weather and nicely tucked under the eaves for weather protection...  Seems to be working ok.  Only 2 more nights of show and 2011 is in the books...

Let me know if you've got any questions and I'll answer as best I can.

[Steve Gase]

Took down my display today.

Its confirmed that I have a combination of IP67 and IP68 strings.
I still need to triage all of the problems with SSCs, and strings, and figure out if I had any IP68 problems at all.

In a causal handling, I saw oxidation inside of some pixels.

Gonna have some fun bring these strings into some sort of usefulness.

Here is just a single string... 2 fires with broken wires. (hey, that rhymes...   )

[chrisatpsu]

Here is just a single string... 2 fires with broken wires. (hey, that rhymes...   )

sounds like a country song...

[keitha43]

I actually watched 1 node start smoking then catch fire until the wires melted in half and it didn't blow the hub fuse. the other I didn't see did blow the fuse but too late.

[rick surette]

I would love to hear more good and bad experiences this season. I want to change over to SS but burnt nodes scare me. I wonder what insurance companies would say if a house burnt down because of these.

[maffeirw]

I had about 600 nodes along my roofline and around my windows all taped to 3/4" pvc to maintain the spacing.  I had about 5 nodes fail after rainstorms with 2 that didn't recover when dry.  Of course those 2 were at the peak of my roof.  I cut the data line in both sides of each of the failed nodes and jumped over them with a piece of wire and with the exception of a little gap they looked and worked fine until my last show yesterday.

[jess_her]

I think everyone can agree Steve puts on a       "Smoken   Hot   Show"
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[TheBanker]

Here is how I attached my Smart String controllers to the Eaves...

I just used the mini light clips and kept the SSCs out of the weather and nicely tucked under the eaves for weather protection...  Seems to be working ok.  Only 2 more nights of show and 2011 is in the books...

Let me know if you've got any questions and I'll answer as best I can.

How did you mount the rest of the string?  It looks like you need a little wood work there.