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Thanks, Barnabybear. Based on what you described and my own experimenting, I think that the Renard controllers are so limited that they would only...

Hi, it looks like: U1 is a PM2014 mains Voltage LED current limiter / driver. http://www.power-micro.com/bookpic/201832992822124.pdf The resistors...

I know I have a link saved on my PC that lists vendors and software stuff, including a couple places you can purchase sequences. I'll have to log on...

Next time that happens try to thoroughly clean the board around the offending triac and optocoupler and then thoroughly dry the board. I'd tend to...

Thanks Shawn.

Thanks Phil, I guess that must have been it, it just seems weird though, since it worked before. I did measure it after I pulled it, it was...

Hard to say. If the triac was stuck on and changing the resistor fixed it, my suspicion would be that there was some surface contamination (dirt or...

Here is how I have mine setup. Thanks, Shawn

Possibly, but I'm skeptical. Most regulators that I've come across have 3 pins, rather than 5. I'd bet that it's an op-amp or comparator, possibly...

I'd bet the 5 pin ic is a voltage regulator :)

Ok I will define what i see as 1 cluster which is tied to 1 of the 4 mosfets. There is 10 columns of 7 leds . If looking at the columns from left...

OK, 35.5 VAC is presumably an rms value from a DVM, corresponding to a peak voltage of 50V and a p-p voltage of 100V. Without further understanding...

35.3 Vac at each rectifier .

I haven't been able to find any data on that 5-pin IC on the internet...the closest that I came across was in a family of parts with completely...

I was hoping to bypass the AC and control them with DC directly.

Hi Here is a cluster shot .

Thanks Phil I believe that I phrased the rectifiers incorrectly . Being that there are 2 rectifiers and 4 led arrays , that 1 rectifier was for...

By the way, why do you want to apply 36V to the guts of the device? Is it just tinkering, or do you have some plan behind not using the 110VAC power...

At the risk of being pedantic, the DB207S is a full-wave bridge rectifier, not a half-wave. What puzzles me is the 36V that you observed. Absent...

Hi, can you do a close up of the various clumps of components?

Here is a pic of where i believe adding DC to test .

I did not use Micropy .I used the Arduino RBDlib - code from the supplier of the board and a simple web server . I applied 110V AC and measured...

Just out of curiosity, were you programming that wemos pro mini in entirely in micropython? As to what would happen if you applied 36 vdc, I have...

I have 4 of them setup as a 8x64. I did fix it though. I had to figure out what numbers to use in the strings,nodes/string,etc. I would like to see...

Some more progress with this controller and using a esp web server but still limited range . I conclude it is not up to the task of AC leds . So I...

I have 2 of the 8x32's setup as a 8x64 matrix. I am out of town so can't look at my xlights setup. I will confirm when I get home, but mine scrolls...

They might be spam... But still nice words are always appreciated. LoL

Yeah, one way or another......:(