Jumbo Tree Ornaments

[MichiganLights]

dirknerkle,

Are you driving each ornament directly from the Ren48LSD board or through a DCSSR?

[dirknerkle]

dirknerkle,

Are you driving each ornament directly from the Ren48LSD board or through a DCSSR?

Direct from the 48LSD. Since it's only RGB and I'm not using the Ren48 breakout boards, I'm actually wasting one channel (the W one) out of each RJ45 jack, too, and only using 3 of each set of RJ45 channels. So while technically you can get 16 sets of RGB channels out of a 48LSD for 16 jumbo ornaments, I'm just putting one jumbo ornament on each RJ45 jack, so I'll only get 12 ornaments out of the controller. I'm wayyyyyy too lazy to rip the controller apart or build a dozen short cat5 cables to connect to a breakout board...

Instead, and if I get energetic, I may put 6 DIGWDF HeadBlinkers inside a CG1000 box for 48 channels along with a 12v power supply and solder the cat5 wires into the holes where headers would normally go. This would give me a small, wireless (4"x 6") 48-channel LED driver for 16 jumbo ornaments.

[Skunberg]

Direct from the 48LSD. Since it's only RGB and I'm not using the Ren48 breakout boards, I'm actually wasting one channel (the W one) out of each RJ45 jack, too, and only using 3 of each set of RJ45 channels. So while technically you can get 16 sets of RGB channels out of a 48LSD for 16 jumbo ornaments, I'm just putting one jumbo ornament on each RJ45 jack, so I'll only get 12 ornaments out of the controller. I'm wayyyyyy too lazy to rip the controller apart or build a dozen short cat5 cables to connect to a breakout board...

Instead, and if I get energetic, I may put 6 DIGWDF HeadBlinkers inside a CG1000 box for 48 channels along with a 12v power supply and solder the cat5 wires into the holes where headers would normally go. This would give me a small, wireless (4"x 6") 48-channel LED driver for 16 jumbo ornaments.

You could run the cat5 from the 48LSD out to the tree, then the breakout board in a TA200 with outputs to the ornaments in the tree. Save some cat5 runs and get more ornaments. Win-Win and no baby cat5 cables.

Brian

[dirknerkle]

C'mon, Brian! That's too sensible of an idea for me to do that! Why do something that makes good sense when you could do it the hard way?

You going to the Mini?

[Skunberg]

C'mon, Brian! That's too sensible of an idea for me to do that! Why do something that makes good sense when you could do it the hard way?

You going to the Mini?

Yes i am going to the mini, it'll be nice to see you again! And I know you would do it wireless so my comment was for the lurkers. ;-)

Brian