Category Archives: Light Controllers

EBAY 10Watt LED Flood Light Retrofit

My 20Watt Roll your own RGB Flood Lights take a lot of effort to build. I purchased some 10Watt LED Spot lights from EBAY.  They are reasonably made and very compact.  I also purchased some LED Constant Driver boards from … Continue reading

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Temperature controlled Fan

I finally finished one of the outdoor Power Supply Boxes.  It contains 2x 350W SMPSs in it and will be situated in the garden.  The cabinet currently has a 12v computer fan to push air out of the box. Like … Continue reading

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DMX Terminations

DMX512 employs RS-485 differential signaling at its physical layer.  DMX512 uses a unidirectional simplex communication protocol. the following is a paraphase from Wiki:  DMX512 is a bus network that works upto 1,200 metres long, provided you don’t have  more than 32 receivers … Continue reading

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RGB Window Outlines

Window outlines are a popular display items. They accentuate the house beautifully. There are two things you’ll discover when installing windows lights – String length might be a problem, and tape won’t hold them. Whether you’re putting lights up inside … Continue reading

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Handling Errors

My controllers use two LEDs to indicate controller status. H1 – DMX Activity flashes to indicate DMX data has been received and processed. H2 – Power / Error is on to indicating Power is ON and there are no errors.  … Continue reading

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More Lantens

Those that have seen my display will know i like Lanterns. I have about 30 of them. Whilst at Bunnings recently I picked up 6 more. These are larger that most and are galvanised. Now to work out how to … Continue reading

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Dual Pixel DMX Bridge

One of the great technology waves to hit Christmas Lighting is Pixels. For me probably the most historic display was my MrPacjkethead in NZ several years ago. I purchased a number of pixel strings add to our display. 4 years … Continue reading

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Candy Canes mk2

I bought some more candy canes from Hot Dollar shop again this year.  They are translucent red with a white strip. This year I want them on the nature strip so they need to be self supporting and self contained. … Continue reading

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Mini Coro Trees

This is a first for me – Using Coro or Flute board to construct display items. If you want check out what can really be done with Coro board, check out http://www.holidaycoro.com/. These guys do heaps of display items. I … Continue reading

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It is up an going

This year is a low key display. I have remove all the pixels. There will be no Beth Star. The Mega tree made it up with only 2 string failures The spinners made it back the Wreath made it out The … Continue reading

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