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Offline chrisatpsu

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Re: Newbie starting with RGB DMX boards
« Reply #30 on: January 12, 2013, »
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Yeah i consider the lights that i got at the big box stores as dumb strings.  Can i cut off the plug and use those on these boards?

To help you with the terminology so that people don't get confused...

dumb strings are usually referred to low voltage dc powered strings, 12v on this site (but other sites have used 5v)

as for controllers, you can pretty much break them down into 3 catagories...

AC controllers (here, the Express, and SSR4 are examples)

Smart String Controllers (uses strings that run on 12v, and have a chip in each node to control the colors of that particular node)

Dumb String Controllers (uses strings that run on 12v and does not have any chip in each node so that the entire string changes colors as it's controlled by the Dumb String Controller.
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