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Slip Ring - data or PWM9 hrs

Have any of you used a slip ring with pixels ? How did it workout ?
Is PWM a better choice ?

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150ft cut-able spool unused LED rope light5 days

I've had this from a project I never got around to working on, only turned them on to make sure they worked, haven't un-spooled them. It is 150ft of LED rope light in cool white. It is cut-able every 36in and comes with 3 AC adapters and connectors for connecting them to the little power supply bricks.

I am not 100% sure, but I think that these are the lights in questio...

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Should I change from 5v pixels to 12v pixels6 days

I've been out of lighting for several years. Last time I set anything up, it was all 5v pixels. 12v pixels weren't as common at the time. I have 1000 pixels or so, so nothing huge. So I'm wondering if it would be worth switching to 12v pixels to minimize voltage drop.

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ESP32-ETH01 Homemade PCB / WLED controller1 week

Thought I'd share this project I've been working on. I'm moving away from my Arduino based controllers (which are limited to 4 x universes so 4 x 170 pixel outputs) to a WLED based solution. And yes this board is very similar to a commercially available product I know of, though I've never owned one.

The board is deigned in Eagle and milled on my CNC router. The circuit...

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