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So i understand the need for injection. Where to place the injections and how to size the wire to carry the load. The oart im still a little confused...

Last season, I had several wind induced failures of the PVC tension fit of the front door garland. It was not hard to put back, but I wanted...

If you want, I can write the test sketch. Send me what you are using. Likely, you just lost a relay. You could easily reconfigure the sketch to use a...

Yep! I had a couple that were 4 as well. Fun days....

Run a basic relay test. Make sure you are talking properly to all your relays. Take your existing sketch, rename it relay55test, take out everything...

You used to be able to by sequencers that were in a box with outlets on the back, I don't see them anymore. Here's the whole circuit board though,...

LOL this was exactly what I was doing as well, salvaged and wired them into duplex receptacles for the simple strings. Mine had a sequence of 4 IIRC.

I USE 16/2 running at 12 and 24v

What I advise people doing pixels for the first time is, just don't do permanent stuff just yet. My yard currently has 12V power injection running...

Rust/corrosion is something I have run into this year . Many socketed parts are having issues across a range of controllers . lcd displays a big one...

Perhaps wiznet not seated properly, and thermal expansion is wreaking havoc.

I'm not sure, I was leaning in that direction. It's not happening every day, just twice so far this season.

I do have the two bytes in the serial controller in Vixen. I had them in there when it was working. Haven't changed a thing and suddenly not working.

Gotcha. So the only concern beyond that is the distance that 14/2 is running and the voltage drop. What kind of wire do you typically use for power...

Correct. A 14 AWG wire can handle about 15A * 0.8 = 12A so that would be a good wire size for your setup. FYI: I prefer a model with more...

So increase the injection frequency or increase the injection wire size

That means you cannot support 200 pixels on a single 16 AWG wire. You need to drop the current through the feed wire to 8A or less.

Thank you. The outline is paint. I *could* drill a pixel hole outline wirh a 12mm bit, but yes, that is very time consuming.

Wiznet module failure?

https://wallyslights.com/collections/12v-pixels/products/12v-ws2811-xconnect-resistor-bullet-pixel It This is the pixel. Its rated for .6w so...

UPDATE: I uninstalled 3.10.1 from the show PC and re-installed 3.9.5 so it matches the main PC and now the preview works. The preview was...

My advice: Yes do not try to get this working for this season, but do not stop working on the issue either. It takes a long time to get all of these...

This is nice but some critical information needed to calculate loss is missing. What is the max per pixel current your pixels use? I typically use...

Win10 for me.

Happy birthday! Did you ever find those xbee adapters you were looking for?

Very well done.

What version of Windows are you guys experiencing the crash with?