Jumbo Tree Ornaments

**MichiganLights** · 04-01-2013, 07:50 PM

dirknerkle,

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

**dirknerkle** · 04-01-2013, 09:18 PM

Originally Posted by MichiganLights

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** · 04-01-2013, 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by dirknerkle

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** · 04-01-2013, 10:17 PM

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** · 04-01-2013, 10:24 PM

Originally Posted by 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?

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

**johnpdo** · 09-11-2013, 10:50 PM

Working on my Jumbo Ornaments for the trees at the bottom of my drive (1000 feet away). I am also using a 48LSD, RenW and am going to power it with 2 of my 6 volt golf cart deep cycle batteries. I am in the build process, but so excited to show off that it's working! Here's some pics and a very short video on my workbench. IMG_20130910_212420_520.jpg
Sorry about the weird spacing on this post. Not sure why it's all spaced out. Must be me that's spacy. Also, I can't seem to see the video, so trying to do a youtube upload.http://youtu.be/yfgh4PA6QlI

**r.weissbach** · 03-19-2014, 11:18 AM

How do you cut them so perfect?

**johnpdo** · 03-22-2014, 10:28 PM

I can only speak for mine, but I did it with a LOT of straight razors. I downloaded geometric designs from somewhere I googled, and then printed them off. Cut them up and traced them on the coroplast with a pencil. Cut with the razor and glued, glued, glued.......and glued. It was my favorite part of my show this year. I had them at the end of my drive 1000' away running of a 12 volt deep cycle battery. It would last about 2 days, then I would charge it and go again.