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Re: 12VDC Pixelnet Aether
« Reply #15 on: October 24, 2013, »
The Ather II needs 12 VAC as a power source.  Without getting too detailed,  I recall RJ mentioning there was an issue with 12 VDC not being enough voltage to drive one of the colors of the LED.


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Re: 12VDC Pixelnet Aether
« Reply #16 on: October 24, 2013, »
Aether 2 should run fine on DC; the bridge will accept either polarity.  You will need to feed it about 17v DC instead of 12v DC to get around the various voltage drops (bridge, regulator headroom, reference voltage, and blue/white LED forward voltage).
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Re: 12VDC Pixelnet Aether
« Reply #17 on: October 30, 2013, »
yes it will run on DC but not 12 VDC.  The point of my post was to point out that more than 12 VDC was required.