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Well I know exact where I have been, too busy with life to really do any Christmas lights. But with our recent move from Baulkham Hills to the outskirts of Nowra( about 2 hours south ( providing there is no … Continue reading →

Going trough display items, making sure they still work, replace the odd LED where needed etc, I very soon realised I still needed a SSR base controller.  the old control centre had two such controllers, one my first design, a … Continue reading →

This year I am upgrading my control center. Gone is the IBM ThinkCentre, the 192 Channel DC DMX sub-rack, the Grinch Dimmer, the USB DMX adapters and the couple of modified PC power supplies. The new Cabinet contains 3x 350Watt … Continue reading →

Math alert: My spiral trees have 42 pixels. That means 42 x3 =126 LEDs per tree. 2 trees are connect each controller. That means controllers have 252 leds. So if we allow 20mA per LED.  That comes to a total … Continue reading →

I have previously designed and built a 4 channel DC DMX controller. This controller has served well. But I needed to do a quick update for some display items. Firstly I needed to add RJ45s.  They take  up a lot … Continue reading →

I have previously designed and biult a 8 channel RGB strip controller.  This controller has served well.  But sadly the output transistors have gone End of Life. I did two things to rectify this situation, I found a replacement device … Continue reading →

FAST was created by Cory Helmuth as a inexpensive snowfall or meteor tubes. Snowfall tubes are long clear plastic tubes that have a group of LEDs arranged in a linear fashion and the LEDs light in a sequential manner from … Continue reading →

Based on 900mm Tomato Cage frames and 42 LP6803 Pixels, these trees have been a very very long project. The project started almost 6 years ago when I purchased for plant trellis cages from the local nursary, for the garden. … Continue reading →