Smart String Project 2013-2016

[chrisatpsu]

with linking it to a SSC, you could control the precise moment it turns on, or even keep it on, as a brief mini bust of light. (think stars in the sky kind of thing) and even slowly fade them.   I'll experiment with some different led's this year.

Xenon, yes are bright, but not as bright as i thought, and I think i can get some led's that would be comparable

[caretaker]

I have a 800 watt DMX strobe I used in my Halloween show and it uses 2 channels of DMX (Speed, Brightness) but I have seen others that use 3 (or more if they have color filters) what it will come down to is price vs features for the design.

[chrisatpsu]

placed an order for the leds to work on the strobe prototype.

trying for rgbled right now just to start.

[chrisatpsu]

how many lights is a good count for icicle lights? what about meteor lights?

how long should they be?

[caretaker]

Icicles would be 10 to 12 LEDs, Meteor tubes 56 gives you a 4 foot tube at least when I made my FAST tubes that how long my 56 LED tubes where. YMMV

[chrisatpsu]

I ordered some stuff to work on this year's projects.  I wanted to get the order in early so i could beat the Chinese new year.

[chrisatpsu]

While waiting on my items, I've found that a PNP tranistor (instead of two NPN transistors) has simplified my ciruit to control greater current, so this is a plus for the design.

[zwiller]

More P O W E R!   

[smeighan]

i was planning on smart icicle strings for 2013 for snow, meteor, and matrix effects. But after coming back from the Osbourne light show at Disney, I want to go full on curtain strings on my house.

Just worried if the software/hardware we have currently will support multiple universes of pixelnet. Whats the most pixelnet channels running that we currently know about? without issues.

This year i had 24 universe and 12,100  channels.

Etherdongle => (3) 16 port hubs

I had no issues. I think i might exceed the 16K channels limit of 4 hubs so  i have a second etherdongle to run the next 16K channels.

I used xlights to run my show.

[txag2008]

Any chance we get a C7 or C9 smart string??

[Steve Gase]

Any chance we get a C7 or C9 smart string??

ray has covers for the smart strings that make them the size of c9s

[ThaiWay]

how many lights is a good count for icicle lights? ....

When you say icicle lights, I think of my 3 meter long strings of 100-ct M5's on white wire with drops of 5,4,3 and 2 LED's spaced 100mm apart.  But I guess that's not what you're thinking Chris?

...Meteor tubes 56 gives you a 4 foot tube at least when I made my FAST tubes that how long my 56 LED tubes where. YMMV

Jeff, I searched for FAST tubes with no results.  Do you have more details?

[chrisatpsu]

drops of 5,4,3 and 2 LED's spaced 100mm apart.

that's the kind of info I was looking for...     i wont know the span, until i factor in the drops...

of course, if i made them even number of drops, then i can do nutcracker matrix effect with them...

[ThaiWay]

^ you mean like the same number of LED's per drop?  If so, then this would be somewhat like a curtain, but short?  say 12 to 18 inches?  I wish my icicles had even a drop of intelligence.

[bcstuff]

Jeff, I searched for FAST tubes with no results.  Do you have more details?

FAST = Finally Affordable Snowfall Tubes

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