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My display is not at my home. I do mine on the lawn of Town Hall. There are no structures I can put my stuff in, so I bought a small garden shed like...

So it looks like it can work after all. I'm ok with using red, green and blue only for this year. I'll experiment with the PWM port on the Arduino...

3 would be fantastic!

you can replace the fuse by wiring in an incandescent light bulb, if there still a short, the light gets bright, it's likely there was a voltage...

I have been through that with the cable company. If you don't know what you are talking about then they will really take advantage of you. Glad...

Ya one “Get a smaller tree!” And here I was impressed with my 120 pixel x 35 strip 180 tree. That’s a lot of everything! :)

Nothing damaged thank goodness and everything is back up and running fine! Some things you just can't plan for. I tell you though, the call...

This was my dilemma. If you don't bridge the fuse, how can you diagnose an issue downstream without power? I made sure to disconnect everything else...

I concur. This year many people have stepped up to the plate and gone above the norm to help people with various aspects of their show, taking them...

Thanks Perrcait. I’ll try that when I get home! Ken Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I bridged plenty of fuses, makes troubleshooting downstream a lot easier , see what smokes, replace

If this were Xlights, I'd say that you had conflicting/overlapping channels or universes on two of the strands. The rightmost strand at the "rear"...

These are what we call "2-wire" strings over on the ACL forum. I did a quick write up on them on da-Share a few years ago. I made a controller...

I found that if you use the alternating pattern you can do it. You can set the settings to as many colors you want and set change interval to 0.

Sorry to see you go.

Hi Plasmadrive ive had a lot of help from people on this and other site and i would like to say thank you to you and anyone really that has help...

Never. EVER. bridge a fuse! They are popping for a reason!!

You could control those with relays, but your choices would be limited. 100% red, 100% green, 100% blue or combos of those. If you want to manually...

Those are dumb RGB strings. Relays will limit you to 7 colors and will only be full on. You want to use DC SSRs and drive them with a PWM signal....

Not confusing at all , I haven't checked that yet . I kept thinking I had a patching problem so you may be on to something! I'll check it tonight.

Thank you for your replies. These are my lights that I want to control ...

His show is not at his house but in a public park.

- I had an electrician friend help me run a separate 60 amp breaker box from my main panel to the garage so I could have extra circuits for my show. ...

How many are you looking for? I just came across one of those this morning in a box of GECE globes. I should have at least 2 or 3 of them I can send...

You might not have much space but those roof/house lines are awesome!

My Pi, FM transmitter, network switch, and 1 controller are sitting inside with several wires going under the garage door, much like several others...

Best option is jump onto the xlights zoom and get someone there to walk through everything and help you test it. Sent from my iPhone using...