Dumb Flex Strips...

[Jeffl]

Was it two strips to make the spinning star?

[angus40]

I need a 12v parts bom for my board before I can power them

[chrisatpsu]

of the dumb strips being powered 

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waiting on vimeo

[tbone321]

Well, cough up those bucks and upgrade that membership.

[wwwgator]

Was it two strips to make the spinning star?

If you are refering to the one posted; yes 2, actually a little left over.

My star used 27- 1' sections ( 3 per short arm x7 arms + 6 per the long base)
When I was testing the dmx boards at my bench, I wired up all 8 as short arms....possible to lay on roof ( considering at the moment), but I wanted the extra height as this display(s) will be out in the yard.

I sent a vimeo link to one of my co-workers, who since I have corrupted into the world of blinky flashy (muuahhh...evil laugh) and his wife is very anxious to see if I have theirs completed yet.

Yes, it will be in your garage friday am.....

[frankr]

Awesome!  Thanks for the video.  I am thinking these could be my solution to for mini trees going forward 

[angus40]

We got a good buy on these , thanks for the video. Now i really cant wait to power mine up.

my neighbors will know for sure that i have lost it ,setting up christmas display  in march.

[angus40]

Why don't I see a ton of wire going to your star ?

does each segment have it's own channel wires ? that looks great.

If you are willing to share the how to would help me design my own but different as to not copy .

thanks
richard

[wwwgator]

Why don't I see a ton of wire going to your star ?

does each segment have it's own channel wires ? that looks great.

If you are willing to share the how to would help me design my own but different as to not copy .

thanks
richard

Thats the beauty of this....All wiring is internal to the spokes (see picture). Culminates in 108 wires in the 4" center cap and lands on 3 sandwiched  DMX boards in the horizontal tube out the back of the display. The only cabling external is power and a CAT5 carrying the DMX to it.....now that I got the wireless from the co-op.....

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It is a tight fit with all the segment wires coming in but its clean when its all assembled.
feel free if you have any questions  to post or pm ....someone taught me, it's my obligation to pass it on

[angus40]

Thanks alot for sharing the how to . It sure helps to see pics .

nice indeed

Cheers
Richard

[wwwgator]

Second one completed....much cleaner on the revised mounting of boards...
Gtey fiam inserted to prevent contact between solder side of back to back boards. ( 1&2)
The 3 rd board us stacked on top of board 2

[angus40]

looks great , what boards are those ?

[wwwgator]

They are Ray's 27 Channel boards
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As David mentioned earlier, it is very wise to allow for a good burn in period. I had 2 channels on 2 boards fail (out of 15 boards Ive purchased already) due to bad soldering on the output transistors- easily replaced.
DMX addresses set via dip switches- no programmers required.

[Beanbag109]

I bought some of these in January. I alsl got 1.5M (5-30cm strips), with a 24ch IR remote controller for 20$.

I made a 12VDC battery pack with one 9V and two D-cells, put in a switch, and attached them to my son's snare durm for us to use performing with the Bagpipe band we are in durring St. Patricks day. SO cool!

In testing, The LEDs lasted for 10 hours (constand - ON) before I got tired of timing it. Next step it to make a sound activated, Flash with each drum strike.

Dont have tonight to look at all of these 4 pages of posting, but can not wait to play with these.

Mike

[chrisatpsu]

In testing, The LEDs lasted for 10 hours (constand - ON) before I got tired of timing it. Next step it to make a sound activated, Flash with each drum strike.

mercury switch?