You can also see that the boxes look nice and tidy until the tail connectors are attached to the controllers. We will have some more cable management installed before the boxes go up so it will all be nice and tidy!
The five wiring boxes are now complete, or they would be if we hadn't managed to loose two of the 400W power supplies (the big greenish grey boxes). Each box has external connection ports for cat5 (carrying DMX) and a caravan plug so that power can be connected using a regular extension cord. In these pictures you can see the new smaller controllers we have from Ray Wu, a very popular Chinese supplier through Alibaba.com (with the blue labels). So far these are wonderful. 24 Outputs (the much larger green ones in the left picture are only 16!), 24 Volts, and channels are set with dials so you always know exactly what is set and you can change things very easily while the unit is on the network - simply power down and start again.
You can also see that the boxes look nice and tidy until the tail connectors are attached to the controllers. We will have some more cable management installed before the boxes go up so it will all be nice and tidy!
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One of our new arrivals is a set of four wall washers - I had a picture of them in the last post. The video bellow is sideways but that doesn't matter because all I'm really trying to show off here is the great colours on the wall, which would even look great upside down. Tuppet's dad unpacking some lights Today 5 more boxes arrived from China, full of presents for us to unwrap around the fireside. We have got a lot of things in this latest delivery, including about 100m of RGB strip lighting, some 400W power supplies and 4 big wall washers. We also have a range of garden lighting to install - They will be for year round use though. RGB Wall Washer Here is one of the long wall washers. It's about 1m long, and has RGB output which should cover the whole wall pretty effectively. We have four of them, one of which will belong to Brothertuppet during the year. For this reason we also got a couple of RGB remotes and standalone 4 channel controllers. Despite saying 12V on the box we are informed that they are really ok with 24V so we are going to test them... carefully. Brothertuppet was NOT HAPPY that his part of the order was the only part which had any issues so he couldn't play with it tonight. 24V Power supply The power supplies look reasonable considering we were paying significantly less than we would expect to pay here. Don't worry, they do have a cover, we just pulled it off to see the guts. They are not even trying to be waterproof - we are going to keep them protected in a box under the eaves. All in all we are very happy with our first impressions, and look forward to some fun time playing with our new toys. Today the first of our shipments arrived, including a whole bunch of regular LED strings and warm white icicles which will expand the show nicely. In addition we got a couple of samples of RGB strings: The lights came with a controller so we could play with them a bit, which is what you can see in the video. The connectors are waterproof rated and seem pretty good. The bulbs also look fairly waterproof. The only negative comment so far is that some of the colour mixing can cause the bulbs to be more of a mix of colours than a mixed colour, but that definitely depends on the particular colour - yellow definitely doesn't work well, but purple is quite nice.
This week Tuppetsdad placed an order with a factory in China for lots of LEDs. They will be the same as what we ordered last year, but obviously we need a bit more already!
We are getting more icicles to line the upstairs roofline and also some leds to fix the existing stars, make some more, and begin work on tuppet's lighting project for the year - more on that once she comes up with a proper design. In preparation for the Melbourne Mini (hosted by auschristmaslighting.com) a very kind Mr. Wu has sent us some exciting samples from his chinese light distribution store. We are looking forward to having a chance to play with our fun new toys!
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