Hi dmoore,
Well, to get wall-washes (like I want), I envision the lights being out in the yard, pointing back at the walls (and / or other landscape elements). [Of course, since I don't have floods mounted on my soffits, that part is sort of moot.]
And, of course, other options exist. But no wireless and no built-in controller sort of defeats the whole purpose. The Aether will provide all these things in one - that's part of why it's so attractive.
And my thought was that, depending on how it's designed, a 12-volt AC power solution *might* be a very simple modification (perhaps being as simple as removing the 120v transformer, replacing it with a couple of jumpers & installing a different power cord - though it might be much worse than that, depending...).
But if it's easy, and others would be interested in that option, wouldn't it make sense to provide it?
--Dave
Well it is a little more difficult than that to make them work on 12volts DC. One thing users have to understand is that many people will all want different stuff and they will of course think their idea is more needed then the others. This is not a bad thing but it is a point everyone has to come to understand. We can not design stuff to do everything as this would make them exspenive, complicated, and take for ever to get working.
To make it a little more inclusive and show it is not just here but everywhere and since the mighty minis were brought up, There is a number of post on the mighty mini talking about how it should have been 12 volt. Other felt it needed constant current drive for better led life, others asked about built in power supply, others think it should have included a controller in it, others have talked about adding frosted filters to make the color blend better. These are all public post you can find easily enough.
My point is that no matter what you design there will be users that think it should have " insert here" option.
As far as the Aether, the beta boards I am waiting on do indeed have a dc input for 12v on it and marked for such. It is totally untested and may not function correctly for all I know so this is the reason I have not mentioned it. The reason I added it was for the reason the OP stated. I want to use them as landscape lighting and 12v dc is common for this. I also am working on the code that makes them stand alone where one is a master and the others slaves so they can do color changes and patterns on there own with no input to them.
RJ
