Voltage drop, bad cables - mystery partly solved!

[drlucas]

That is looking better on a first glance...time to go take a quick picture/video.....basic pattern....house turn orange and purple...lets see what happens.

[jnealand]

SSCs are programmed as starting from 1 regardless of the universe.  i.e., 1-4096 in Univ 1 , 1-4096 in univ 2 etc.
Software is programmed by the universe channel count. 1-4096, then 4097 -8192, then 8193.....

At least that is how I understand it and how I do it.  My pixel tree is in unv 2, but the SSCs start with 1 and then increment up by 360 thru all 8 SSCs since I am using flexstrips, but in vixen the pixel tree is programmed from 4097 -....

Sometimes it is just hard to get your arms around this stuff.  I keep a table of start addresses and channel numbers in an excel spreadsheet and I can't even count how many times I had to go back and change my assumptions and recalculate the channel numbers.  Don't start me on DMX universes of 512 each.  LOL  I don't want to even think about it.

[drlucas]

Got it....it makes sense now to me.

Thank you all!

Attached is my purple house! (with a 2 bad nodes in my windows that will get fixed the next dry day!)

[rick surette]

Looks great Ryan, glad you got it working.
You will need to come to my house and get mine going 
Rick

[keitha43]

Got it....it makes sense now to me.

Thank you all!

Attached is my purple house! (with a 2 bad nodes in my windows that will get fixed the next dry day!)

What levels of red, green, and blue are you using to get your purple?

[drlucas]

Does the answer, I dunno work? In xlights, I pick a Bars effect, then pick the color picker and choose the purple that's on the right side (second from the bottom) on the basic colors screen. I did a paste of the effect below if that helps... only used effect1, and just checked that color only...

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