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Originally Posted by
Imagine
Ahhhhh wow!!!!
Steampunking the lights - likey likey.
Off to investigate getting some boards now.....no batteries, no external wiring/power supplies....brilliant
A couple of things you need to be aware of Wayne:
1. The wireless DMX boards operate in the ISM band - 2.4Ghz which may have to compete with other devices (wifi, bluetooth, yada yada etc). Your mileage may vary. I've seen my gigAbar flick off & on a couple of times since the hotel installed a Sonos network, but no major issues to report.
2. Although they don't require much in the way of operating current (50 millamps at worst more than likely), careful you don't overload any circuits you find power for them on and that the rail is steady.
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Originally Posted by
Imagine
Ahhhhh wow!!!!
Steampunking the lights - likey likey.
Off to investigate getting some boards now.....no batteries, no external wiring/power supplies....brilliant
Its much easier than i thought. just fond the CA8 (assuming it has one) board and it will have a spare 5 volt supply. Job done.
I spent ages trying to fit 12 volt - 5 volt converters, until i bought a multimeter.
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Originally Posted by
Imagine
I have a set of acrylic LOVE letters. Now don't get me wrong, in the right setting these look fantastic (see video below). BUT....they work in S2L mode and my OCD doesn't like it one little bit. I want to do clever things with them rather than have them randomly flashing during the main event.
Assuming that they're standard RGB LED strips this this little box will do the job. This is designed for strip lights with a Common anode (i.e. where the negative connection is switched and the positive connections are all wired together and presented on one wire) which is most of the strip lights out there, but other boxes exist for common cathode type connections. I'd think the box I linked to should do the job for most LED strips, it's rated at 8A per channel (giving a total of 288w at 12v!)
Julian
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That's a very useful bit of kit you found there Julian
Cheers
Rich
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It most certainly is.....that's the second slow boat from China on it's way to me this week
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Originally Posted by
DJ Jules
I'm sure I bought mine from a UK seller, I paid a little bit more (£17/unit?),
I prefer to buy from the UK and pay a bit more.
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Dinosaur
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OK - so the first of the slow boats from China turned up today
However, after spending hours this evening with a soldering iron and an ADJ MegaTriPar.....I'm feeling defeated
I've got the transceiver thingy wired into the USB interface no problem (power light's on and it's getting a steady 5v....brilliant).
I've got the receiver wired into the TriPar (again, steady 5v supply and lights are on)
But alas....although the lights are on it would appear that no-one's home
As you'd expect from something from China - there's no instructions. Never mind - seems simple enough thinks I....but I'm confused now.
As you can see from the photo below, there's four connectors on the board (from left to right they're +5v, RXD, TXD and GND). Simple enough, +5v is the power from the board, TX and RX are for the aeriel (which has it's own connector anyway), and GND is ground. Wired the +5 and the GND up...power to the board...brilliant
However, one is assuming that the Molex wires are for the XLR pin outs. So...I wired 1 to pin 1, 2 to pin 2......... does it work? Nope
I've taken it all to bits again now and put things back to how they should be for tonight (everything works with cables) and will try again in the morning.
Need some sleep now, but if anyone has any ideas or advice (Justin?), it'd be more than welcome.
If it helps, the boards are these ones Linky
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