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bdkeen 
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 Topic: RGB Flood LightsPosted: 02 Dec 2009 at 1:54pm |
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I checked with Darryl and the DCx16 is positive common.. I actually run them to each light then they are tied tocether inside the light. I used ps/2 cables from computers because it was conviently 6 wire and have the nice small plugs. The got some 20 to 100 foot ps/2 extensions so I can pretty much put them anywhere in the yar if I wanted. |
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brunnesa
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Posted: 02 Dec 2009 at 1:47pm |
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Ok, well i will go with a 5 or 10 amp 12 volt DC power supply then. Any bigger than that and the dimensions of them become too large. I am planning on running 5 fixtures of two PCB's with each DCx16. So do all of the positives coming from each channel on the DCX16 get tied together and then just run one positive to each PCB? The negitives are used to trigger?
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bdkeen
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Posted: 02 Dec 2009 at 1:36pm |
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I have 3 channels per light - the reds, greens, blues and + are y'd together. I don't know what amperage they are drawing but it can't be that high. I used a simple cheap old ac adapter to test the boards as I built them and the DCx16 power supply is from an old computer 4mm tape drive unit.
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brunnesa
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Posted: 02 Dec 2009 at 11:56am |
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So each PCB requires 3 channels? I noticed that you put 2 PCB's inside an enclosure. So did you use 6 channels for that one fixture or did you jumper it? How may amps are you pulling per PCB when all LED's are on? I am looking at power supplys and trying to figure out which one to buy. Thanks. |
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wesalbert
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Posted: 01 Nov 2009 at 12:47am |
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bdkeen
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Posted: 31 Oct 2009 at 7:43pm |
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Poor quality video of a Halloween sequence but I tried to get something with 4 of the flood set out shining at the front of the house - http://www.keenlights.info/projects.asp Halloween test of flood lights
Sorry for a somewhat poor quality video - Colors are washed out in the video and were way more bolder in real life - I'll blame the operator more so than the camera.
This was a quick sequence comprised of almost exclusive use of the waveform to event tool doing very lettle if any in the eadvanced settings. I just wanted something quick and easy that would pulsate the floods with the music.
The sky opened up and it poured about 2 minutes after this video - ended the short one night show early.
I guess I should also mention that the redish flashing you see in the video was'n my lights - Fire truck partrolling while trick-or-treaters on the prowl - but it's a cool effect. Edited by bdkeen - 31 Oct 2009 at 7:48pm |
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bdkeen
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Posted: 31 Oct 2009 at 9:07am |
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Yup - 12v on the dcx16. I used a power supply from an old external 8mm tape drive.
Weather permitting I'll set the lights out tonight while the kids are coming around for trick-or-treat. I did some very quick sequences using the waveform to event tool on the 16 channels - pretty much just the 4 rgb floods and 2 smaller (1 board) uv lights, If I can I'll video some of it I'll post on my website somewhere.
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JonB256
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Posted: 31 Oct 2009 at 8:15am |
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Looking through all the posts, I don't see what voltage you are using for the DCx16. I'm assuming 12vdc??? even without that info, I ordered 10 boards. I won't get them done in time for Christmas, but I do lots of little projects through the year. |
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wesalbert
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Posted: 30 Oct 2009 at 11:59pm |
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I got it working. I was playing with it tonight and seems to work really well. Is much brighter than the floodlight banks I was using last year. Color mixing seems to work well, fades dont really seem to be to much of a problem either.
Will have to get some video from Halloween. I put something together really quick, but I think it will work well. I had 2 kids come by tonight to see what i was doing.
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wesalbert
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Posted: 30 Oct 2009 at 4:17pm |
can you explain this better. I know on the LED board I have - R,G,B and +, the DCx16 has ch1 +,- ch2 +,- ch3 +,-
How is this getting connected? Am I just hooking up one positive and then ch1,2,3 - to the RGB board, or am I making a jumper from ch1 +, ch2 +, ch3 + ??
I'm a bit lost here.
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