
Originally Posted by
Stormyblade
1" spacing is VERY crowded/tight -- you may want to back off to 3, 4, 5 or even 6" spacing, depending on how far away from the street your house sits. As an example, my house sits about 20 ft from the street and I went with 4" spacing and I definitely don't want to go closer than that.
That controller is not overkill, but it has 16 outputs and, unless you do some creative stuff with your pixel strings, it will be one string per output (you can combine short string runs with another string as long as your total # doesn't go much past 100 pixels). You might find that you are going to want another controller to split your house in half, or you will be doing long runs of wire. Think about where you want your power supplies and controller and decide if you can go with one controller or if you will need multiple controllers and power supplies. Just to give you another reference, I have about 2500 total pixels and have 3 E682 controllers and 6 12V power supplies due to locations. I probably have too many power supplies but I wanted to have more than enough power than not enough.
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