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Episode: 4076
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Title: HPR4076: WLED House Lights!
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4076/hpr4076.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 19:19:32
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4,076 from Monday the 18th of March 2024.
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Today's show is entitled WLED House Lights.
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It is hosted by Operator and is about 35 minutes long.
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It carries an explicit flag.
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The summary is I talk about setting up here around House Lights.
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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Hacker Public Radio with your host Operator.
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I'm going to talk about WLED DIY House Lights.
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I don't understand why I haven't done this one before, I guess because it's a lot and I think it took a bunch of notes and then I never did that episode.
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So WLED is a open source of lights management program.
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You've got big ones like ex lights, we'll do like with music and a couple other ones.
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I never really cut into that space.
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I just wanted easy Christmas lights year round.
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So let's start it back when I kept having to get on the roof every year and I don't want to be on the roof.
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I'm trying not to be on the roof at all.
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So now let's just year round no matter what the holiday is or maybe we're having a party or whatever I can turn the lights on and whatever festive thing I want.
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I don't want to climb up and do the Christmas relights and then pull them back down.
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So I'm trying to get some people to help when there's replacements and swap sounds to be made to be easy.
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But anyways, so what I'll say is the setup is pretty easy, the actual doing of everything.
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You can buy Home Depot has J-channel, a thin J-channel.
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You can buy, it's not cheap but it is a vinyl J-channel and it's very thin.
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The stuff that the guy sells Mr. Lights or whatever you guys name is he has like bigger J-channel and I think it's metal.
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And it comes in different colors or whatever.
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I like the J-channel and Kruger or sorry at Home Depot because it's thinner.
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So I think it comes in white only or I think I bought white and then I forgot that I would have to put stuff on the roof
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because I wanted to put stuff lights on the roof too.
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So I think I bought some spray paint and just spray paint at them.
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And it actually the spray paint is an outdoor heavy-duty spray paint and it has worked for the most part.
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There's been some parts where it's bent because of it cracked because of the plastic getting
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so extremely hot on top of the roof.
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It melted and then when that plastic melts the paint kind of fractures.
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So if you can get dark colors for the roof, the memorialized miniature roof then do that.
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If not, you're going to have to buy some of that metallic, the cool looking paint that looks like a roof,
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like a stucco paint, textured paint.
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So there's that and then the actual pixels.
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And I'm not sure I'm going to do show notes even though it's pretty complicated
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because I have a Google Docs and I'll try and export that and put it on my site too.
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Just in case it's Project 365 is the name of it and looks like I have a...
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Now this is probably three or four years coming.
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So I will share with that, let me make a note head for my note head.
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So I want to share Project 365 Docs and the sheep and put it on my site for backup.
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Let's see.
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Project.
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So the first thing I'll open here is Excel spreadsheet.
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And basically I measured the sides of the house.
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Sorry I'm doing two projects at a time here.
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I'm at the makerspace doing some stuff.
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Yeah.
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I'm still... I have notes about the setup.
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Join the WLED and software SDR.
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No, and this SR Discord.
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Oh sound reactive Discord, sorry.
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So there's a WLED for Discord and there's a sound reactive Discord.
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If you're into the sound reactive stuff, sure.
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It is easy to do once you actually get the part soldered on there.
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I ordered a digital one and I think the firmware I had on there was different
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because I waited like a year or six months.
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I mean I spent a long time setting all this up, but I spent even longer on the sound.
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So all in all, it's not a big commitment.
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If you're a beginner to electronics and you understand basic electronics, it's easy.
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You're soldering a teensy board or whatever they're called.
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And you don't even need to do that.
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You don't even need to solder anything actually.
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I forgot.
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You just buy the little pin outs set for the sink for 10 bucks online.
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And then you crimp the ends and you can be fine with that.
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You can solder them to make them nice and cleaner.
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I have a cleaner connection, but you can just crimp your way to solder town.
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By the way, the little sets that have the use for like Arduino boards,
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the little clampy things.
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There is a tool to crimp those, which had I thought about it.
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I would have obviously known that there is a tool to crimp those.
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So I don't know what that tool is, but I'm going to add it to my list here.
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So they do not forget to get it.
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It's like a crimping tool for those things.
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Crimp tool for Arduino wires.
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And it's kind of a standard, you know, a standard size.
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It's basically a flap that sticks up on two sides before you plug in the pin.
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And you have to smush down those two flaps.
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And then there's two smaller flaps you smush down.
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And then sometimes once you smush them, they're too flat.
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And they won't actually go in with the piece of plastic.
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There's apparently a crimping tool that will help you with all that.
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So anyways, take your time.
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Baby steps.
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You know, learn the required basics for house wiring,
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you know, ground hot load, common ground measuring ants.
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I don't understand why I've not done this before.
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Hold on.
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W-L-E-D.
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House.
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House.
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I just don't understand house tour.
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And I walk around my house, my divide.
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Wow.
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Okay, I just haven't done this.
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So yeah, you need to understand the basics.
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You know, ground hot, load, line, common ground.
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A-C-D-C measuring ants, voltage, voltmeter.
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Gets you one of them.
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Mr.
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Happy Sockets.
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Mr.
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Power Amp.
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It'll be in my notes.
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Power
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Power Reader thing.
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Oh, it's called a kilowatt.
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K-I-L-A-W-A-T-D.
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Get it, kill it.
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That measures the ants.
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So when you plug it all in, you set it all up,
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and turn it on, you're worried about how many ants
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are going through your pixels.
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We'll kind of get to that.
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I'll try to be quick, but we'll kind of get to that.
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So once you first starting all this out, you're like,
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oh, you know, ants and, you know,
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ants and volts and whatever.
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It's not that it is kind of terrifying
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because you don't want to burn all your stuff
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or burn all your pixels.
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But honestly, it's not that hard to figure out.
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When you get the voltage saying that plus or minus 12 volts
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on the 12 volt pixels,
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and you can, with the fancy adapters,
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you can dial up the voltage.
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So if it's like 12 volts,
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and you want me to give it a little bit of kick,
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not recommended, run a house down, whatever, disclaimer,
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obviously I'm not an electrician,
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but you can put a little bit more ants
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than what's required.
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And this is common.
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I'm not an electrician.
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I don't know anything pertinent on me about electricity,
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but I do know how to measure
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how many voltages coming out of an amp.
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And I'll get on a, you know, six volt,
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you know, just a little crappy five volt power adapter.
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I'll get six volts, eight volts sometimes it depends.
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Like they're all over the place.
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So if you have any measure,
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if you try to actually measure the voltage
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of some of these voltage adapters,
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and I feel like it's the smaller ones
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that have the most egregious voltage ranges.
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So like, you know, it'll be like a six volt adapter,
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but the, you know, little device will only be like three volts
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and it only needs three volts.
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So you plug it in that,
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and then so half the time that the smaller ones
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seem to be like a higher voltage.
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I don't know if that's true.
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And then the 12 volts,
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because what I was looking for was a 12 volt adapter.
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So anything around 12 volts,
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it was always under 12 volts.
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But then once you start getting past the 12 volt mark,
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like higher voltage,
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I think those are more consistent.
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Meaning it's not consistent as a good quality thing,
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but there are, you know, 12 volts, 12 volts,
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there's 12 volts, no.
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But, you know, 30 volts out of 30-fold adapter,
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you're probably going to get 32 volts.
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You'll get a little bit more if anything.
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So that's been my experiences.
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I don't want to go too far on about amps and volts,
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but, you know, it's kind of important.
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Kind of important.
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So I'm actually anxious for a 22 gauge wire,
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is 90.92 amps.
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So, yeah.
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22 gauge wire.
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And that's the same wire I think that the pixel,
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the pixels run off of.
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Series, not parallel, like old Christmas tree lights.
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Talk about ACDC, AC wall.
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Talk about meters, max amps.
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Yeah, 10 amps on the,
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on the WLED pixels.
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I think that's their maximum.
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Uh, or maybe 10 amps max on the, on the wire,
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on the, on the wire that I've got,
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0.92 amps, I guess, you know, whatever.
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So, anyways, I've got screenshots here also in the document.
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567 LEDs has the count.
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So, the way I haven't set up is I have it split to different directions.
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Um, and then, uh, so there's actually two strands of lights coming from the source.
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And, or one, and then it splits off and goes one direction.
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And what else?
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I think I've split off three ways.
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Maybe just two.
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I can't remember.
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Um, so anyways, uh, I've got the spreadsheet showing the blocks
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and I count, count it each section.
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Um, it's a little hard to explain.
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So, I basically have a, an Excel document.
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And first, I started with the visual document.
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So, I measured the, measured the distance on the things and marked it
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with how, how far the roof line is, how far the, you know, bottom of the thing is,
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the left side of the house, the right side of the house, the garage,
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whatever I wanted to wrap.
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And I labeled the length in there and then I started making an Excel table
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and then I called them different things.
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Like a three, a two, a one is all around the door.
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You know, all everything in D is around the garage.
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Everything in B is the rest of the house, essentially.
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Um, I think maybe I, maybe I named them different based on their, their, uh,
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their range too.
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So, which, which segment there are?
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So, I ended up breaking the house.
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Anyways, let's say I ended up breaking up the house into like three sections.
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Um, and you can look at the diagram.
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I got the math in there.
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The Excel speech that she chose the math and there and how I've calculated
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inches to, um, feet and feet, inches and estimated pixels per inch.
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So, each pixel holds, uh, wow, man.
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Was it a yard?
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Is how long they were or three feet?
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Is how long they were right?
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And you could fit however many pixels per strand.
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I don't remember.
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Anyways, um, and with the J channel, you have to drill the holes yourself.
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So, if you have a drill press, please use it.
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If you don't have a drill press, find somebody that has a drill press.
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I did it by hand, uh, I want to say,
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well, I guess 152, at least 152.
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I don't know how many total pixels I have.
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A thousand.
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So, I've handled a thousand with a septal.
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I use a septal for the J channel holes.
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Um, and it's not a septal.
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What do they call those, um,
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suck and kind of suck drill bit?
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So, it's a big, wide, flat drill bit.
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And it's not like the drill bits to drill a hole with.
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It's, uh, more like a cone shape with a blade on that cone shape,
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so that you don't, um, so it doesn't just dig into the plastic and tear it all up.
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It kind of slides in and then eventually starts to cut more and more.
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It still can make a mess.
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But, uh, if you have a drill press, you could do like three holes at a time,
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slide down, three holes at a time, slide down, three holes.
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Maybe in four or five, if you could set up some kind of jig that would hold
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it on both sides.
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Um, you know, set up a wooden jig that would hold it perfectly straight,
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you know, five, five pieces at a time.
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And, you know, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, we've done.
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So, anyways, that's, uh, the J channel thing again,
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yet the screen shots, how I segmented everything out.
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I set it up to somewhere I could inject more power down the line.
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And there's some notes around the hardware and all that you're not really supposed to feed
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more power into the line.
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I don't keep on that wall, but you know, it's not like, because at first it was like,
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oh, plug it in, go, you know, whatever, and now they're like, okay, you need by-law,
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you probably have to run a whole new power line to the next strand or something, because
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I'm not like the electrician.
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So you start out by most of the video is telling you, yeah, just, you know, throw an extra
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12 volts down the line, you'll be fine.
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Now they're, now they say, run an entire line all the way from the beginning of the power
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all the way down to the end.
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So they're basically running a whole other line for power.
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Or I think at least the positive side of the, whatever.
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The real soldering is a real lead, we'll get that lead free solder.
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Heat gun stretch lights, oh, it's stretch lights, so you got heat gun, you don't have a heat
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gun, you do electronics, please get one.
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It's for the shrink wire, it's for, you know, no use a lighter, it's for a bunch of other
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things.
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You can get heat gun based wire crimps or whatever.
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So basically it's a, it's a heat shrink tube with solder in the middle and you heat it
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up super hot and basically it melts the plastic around and then it melts the, in theory, it
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melts the solder in the middle and once that middle band melts, it fuses the wire together
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and you have a nice, not only do you have a, a nice solder, you have a nice, like seal
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connection thing for the setup.
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So those are pretty good to have inline inject, it's not right, which versus EVA, I'll
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express really the same.
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Yeah, so I'll express EVA for all of these boards, it honestly don't wait a month to
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get your product, if you're not going to save any money unless you buy a bulk or something,
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maybe.
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This adapter is bad, and all of them is on toward the horrible, yes.
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Oh, there's stores, easy stores, basically sir, sir 74, Q and LED and then the guy that
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does, there's one of the, one of the guys that sell this stuff is, it's not, it's not
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Quinn, I think Quinn is one of the guys and I think sir, it's also maybe Quinn, I don't,
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this is old stuff, I would say probably five years old now, so maybe the whole landscape
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has probably changed, but these guys sites are still up.
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Yeah, you've got a moon module, which basically gives you like, this moon module guy gives
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you like everything you need in one board.
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So ESP32WLED, he's got one, two, three power inputs, I think.
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Yeah, I think that's how that works or no, that's for the, whatever, anyways, that's
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all kind of most of the hardware.
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It's ESP32U program with Arduino and you can do it online, it's like WLED.tools and
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then you load your browser and say you want access to the serial port done, you press the
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button, you tell follow directions and it pushes sound reactive, you can even push from
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there too, so it's great, you know, just recommend backing up your configs and stuff fairly
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often, notes troubleshooting, there's a bunch of troubleshooting stuff, videos, fixing
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the firmware installed WLED, it's installed at WLED.nv, sound reactive WLED, I'll put this
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up as an actual show because it has been a couple of years and if this sits in a reserve
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queue, it's probably not going to be super useful for much longer, but WLED's been rocking
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forever on a discord and I'm always acting stuff, so I've got a buy list here, so I got
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my fancy 12 volt, 17 volt, 200 watt adapter, it's just like no cover or no spare bones,
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it's just sitting hanging out there, I do have it up in the garage, but it's protected
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by a press board MFT, MFT stuff, press board is awful, don't ever buy it, the MDF stuff,
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go for the MDF, don't get it wet still, but at least it's not a press board for Cry6.
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So yeah, the wires are called WS, that's a whisky Sierra 2811 pixels, those are the
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guys I use, I don't, the strips made me nervous, they're probably easily replaced, more
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easily replaceable, if you do it right, so you could set it up just for where your
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J-channel was just hot plug, so you could just, you know, unclip, because I have mine screwed
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in with a screwdriver, and that is, you don't want to be like unscrewing screws on top
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of your, if you want to have a clip system, where you can clip the J-channel in there, I
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would, at all cost, I would try to make it that way and make it modular and do it right
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the first time, I did not do it right the first time, so now if I have a pixel go out,
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I have to, you know, patch where that hole is, what I would like to do, patch meaning
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cut both ends, then, well, first you have to figure out the right pixel and if you mess
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up, because if the pixel is out and you swap that pixel, it's not that pixel, it's probably
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the pixel before it, so the pixel that was on is still working, but when then pushing
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that signal down the line, it can't, so the second one is out, so you have to determine
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which pixel is the one that's actually failing, is it the one that's out, or is it the one
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before it, and if you want to be safe, you can try and check each individual pixel, but
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it's like, I guess there's not really any way to check it, I guess the voltage or amps
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on the other end, whatever, but I digress, they can be annoying to troubleshoot, it would
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be nice to have it modular, where you just swap it out, the problem is, is your house
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is not perfectly, you know, three feet, three feet in every calculation, so that model
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won't really work, you're always going to have to just patch, I guess, got a kilowatt
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here, so how many amputers that way you're not pushing too much, I was so nervous about
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blowing stuff up, I had the maximum brightness calculator set, and it was like super low,
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and I kept having problems with lights flickering and going crazy, so if the lights are flickering
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are going crazy, it's in this order, your problem, not enough voltage, and then I would
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say a short somewhere, then I would say the software itself, and then I would say too
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much voltage, like too much voltage looks, and I've unfortunately done it, too much voltage
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looks more like a surge in power, obviously when it's doing the effects, it'll just look
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like it's a power surge, whereas if it's not enough power, it'll still look weird, and
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things will still flickering or whatever, but it'll look obviously dim, your lights will
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be darker at night, or whatever, so if the lights are going crazy and they're not working
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and whatever, just turn up the voltage, turn up the power, turn up the amps, turn up everything
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gradually, obviously, until it improves, and if it does not improve, then you've done
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too much voltage, or something else is going on, so you know, could be anything, quad hands
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is basically like a metal plate with magnets on it, I've had this one for a long time,
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it gets sticky on the bottom, so you have to kind of keep that, I keep that plate oil
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actually kind of sort of, it's a very slick plate, but it's sticky, so you know, they
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didn't do like a high, they did a high gloss surface, but it's not a high anti sticky
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surface, so what would actually you'd want is, you know, something like, what do you call
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that stuff, Teflon, or not bottom of each side, so that way it would always, whatever,
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but it would all be super slippery, so you have to find a compromise between whatever,
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they sent me new stickers, I think, when they had some kind of class action lawsuit,
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because of the bottom would scratch it or something, or the skis weren't right or something,
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did you get nice, was this, not wire connectors, yeah, so these are called three way six port
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connectors, connectors, quick connect, so as you're doing the patching again, cut it, you
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know, start your two, strip your six wires, so clip your three wires, and then, you know,
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strip the six, and then you pop each end in here, and you clamp it, and then you're done,
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and you can have, be done with that, and be happy with that, or that's just a medium
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for you to test, and then now you can solder it together, so either way you want to have
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these, you want to order some of these, because it's Chris, this, this true story, Christmas
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morning, the lights are out, and I can't, you know, I've did all this work, it was like
|
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my second year with the lights, I think, third year, and I'm like, man, I did all this
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work, you have to put up here, and maybe Halloween, I had messed with it before, probably,
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because that's kind of when I start, I have to check it before Halloween, and then if
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it needs work, hopefully, I can get my nephew in, and help me fix it, but if not, you
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know, I tied it, so I do work to get it fixed, and then Halloween comes and goes, and
|
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Christmas comes, and I'm trying to use it, and it's not working, so it's kind of annoying,
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so Christmas morning, I'm out there, is hands are frozen, and I can't feel them, trying
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to fix it, and I did the, that was with the quick, kind of stuff, and like, you don't want
|
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to be doing that, if you want the patch to be as easily, you know, as quick as possible
|
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to get fixed, and, you know, maybe if you're bored, it makes you nervous, come back out
|
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another day, and it's nice outside, and that's difficult, yeah, the wire, these are adapters
|
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that I use inside, these 15 DC power connectors, they say that they're not great, you know,
|
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12 volt, it's not 12 volt, it's not 12 volt, quick connect 12 volt adapters, so it's
|
||||
like a male, female, and barrel connector, and then the two pack, at least, at least
|
||||
a two pack, now, if you're new to Arduino and electronics, and you don't know how to
|
||||
triple check the power, before you double check the power connections, like every time
|
||||
you go to plug it in, you know how to plug it in, but guess what, you have the orientation
|
||||
flipped upside down, and you plug into power port, into some data port, done, they do
|
||||
not make this stuff any improve, despite how you get proof it is, that makes sense, digital
|
||||
the digital microphones for the sound reactive, it's pretty idiot proof, you plug it in,
|
||||
you set it up, and when you change to one of the effects for sound reactive, and it's
|
||||
not doing anything, chances are something is broken, they have like troubleshooting guides
|
||||
and they have troubleshooting Arduino apps you can run that will show like the gain
|
||||
and level, I guarantee you, if it's not working, you didn't connect it properly, because
|
||||
I think out of the gate has like auto gain turned on, so you don't even have to adjust
|
||||
anything, like it will automatically all just work, you know, some of the effects wouldn't
|
||||
be great for troubleshooting, but in general, you turn the music off, and you know, your
|
||||
lights stay on, or they don't do anything, and you turn the music on, and they start
|
||||
doing stuff, it's working in some capacity, and then that's when you get into having
|
||||
a troubleshoot, and I did get some signal, but the signal I had was very low, and that's
|
||||
when it started driving me insane, and I finally gave up, and then came back to it a year
|
||||
later, and I think I soldered a new one on there, or maybe I tried to, I can't even remember,
|
||||
anyways, oh, here's the heat shrink tubing kit connectors, heat shrink tubing kit,
|
||||
that's what they call it, the sleep tube wrap cable wire kit, so heat shrink tubing kit,
|
||||
which doesn't say anything about the solder in the middle, but it's actually pretty cool,
|
||||
it's an art form, and you got to do it right, you're basically melting the plastic, and
|
||||
if you're sitting under a fire smoke detector, like my shop is for whatever dumb reason,
|
||||
it will set that off pretty quickly, nice wire strippers, your little pack of whatever
|
||||
they call that, housing, male female pin connectors, 40 pin, 2.54 millimeter, it's what they
|
||||
call it, 2.54 millimeters, all your darn doing stuff, here's the J channel, drill press,
|
||||
software to find, the software is WLED, I use all the sound reactives, some backup config,
|
||||
backup your config, backup your presets, no, the one music sign and two music sign indicate
|
||||
if it is volume or FFT driven, so FFT is one of the sound reactive functions features,
|
||||
the single note sign means that it's a volume based sound reactive play to the kit,
|
||||
so that could make sense, if you know you want to do volume based stuff, and I'm pretty
|
||||
sure FFT is full blown EQ equalizer, it's not beat detection, I don't think it's not
|
||||
beat detection, possibly, maybe it's got beat detection built into it, it works, it works
|
||||
pretty good, there's instances where you know it gets, it's not perfect, you know, but
|
||||
it reminds me of back in the days when you had like beat detection software with God tractor
|
||||
and it was kind of sort of there, but it didn't work, now it's all just like, yeah, I do
|
||||
have been there, something who knows, yeah, sound reactive, mics, notes, options, FM,
|
||||
FM transmitter, so you can get a, yeah, you know, you can get a, a legal track, AM transmitter
|
||||
or whatever, or a legal FM transmitter, or you can get the illegal ones that will, the
|
||||
whole neighborhood will hear your radio station, that are like, you know, you get the FCC
|
||||
fans driving down here, driving down the street, I don't see, yeah, here's some amps, that's
|
||||
about amp, 0.47 after inject, a little higher brightness, still ever so slightly dim at the
|
||||
end, 0.37 on before inject power, 0.31 off, 0.24 off, 9.6 mid up the left side, it says
|
||||
voltage dropping from 12 to 9 volts, let's put a V in there, because 9.6 watt feet, 9.6 feet
|
||||
up the, I guess it's voltage, anyways, that's my notes for Wled, use drill dress, it's
|
||||
fun, the wife is responsible for the colors and setting it and plugging it in, so she
|
||||
knows what adapters to plug in and what to do, sorry, got stuff going on here, how to test
|
||||
this, we, she knows, I train her how to plug it in, an unplugged, back to her how to, you
|
||||
know, if there's a surge or something which unfortunately does happen, that's why you
|
||||
have two, at least two, because once we're back up, you want to have a hot spare of everything,
|
||||
hot spare of the pixels, I would buy double the amount of pixels you need, because chances
|
||||
are you're going to want to, you know, replace everything at some point, essentially, so if
|
||||
the whole thing, let's say the whole kit, I see five years, you never have to order another
|
||||
thing, well guess what, in five years you're not going to be able to order any of the pixels
|
||||
you're talking about, and if you do, they're going to be 20 years old, whatever, so that's
|
||||
it, just buy double everything, you know, maybe you buy a sample just to get it started,
|
||||
so you buy whatever in, you know, a small strip of, of WLED, just so you can make sure
|
||||
it works and you figured it out, not too big of a deal for you, but if you're, kind of
|
||||
throw the chairchannel, you're going to call by the house, like monkey for, I think it
|
||||
took me 10 days on enough, that's from like, having no idea, you know, just watching
|
||||
YouTube videos to practical stuff, so, you know, the engineering, the development, the
|
||||
understanding, the development of the spreadsheet, the development of the segmentation, so from
|
||||
actually physically doing stuff all the way to whatever, it's about 10 days on and off,
|
||||
I did weekends, so like a weekday, so I would try to do, if I worked on it, I'd try
|
||||
to work on a minimum of like, you know, commit myself like four hours to work, because you
|
||||
start to get all the crap out, and you know, if you only have a short time to work on it,
|
||||
there's no point in working on it, go do something else that doesn't require, you know, 40
|
||||
minutes to set up before you start actually working on project, so project management
|
||||
is that this is about, so anyways, take your time, baby steps, if something's wrong,
|
||||
start from the beginning, ask WLED, take a picture, they'll laugh at you, but they're
|
||||
helpful, they're very helpful, the other guy, I want to mention that is in a lot of the
|
||||
links for the videos, I'm going to chat news, I'm going to discord, like Mr. Lights, Mr.
|
||||
White, don't remember his name, I don't see him, he's not in my team, but he's in the
|
||||
video links, WLED house, if you just type WLED house, he's like the top for all that stuff,
|
||||
or at least he was, you know, when I was doing it, let's see, the hook up, he's actually
|
||||
good, kind of a ball, you know what I'm going to do, the other guy is Dr. ZZS, Dr. ZZS, Dr.
|
||||
ZZS, his videos are pretty good, he goes through everything, the set up, his house,
|
||||
the stuff he sells, J Channel, or whatever, that's pretty much it, I will put a link to
|
||||
the stuff, if anybody has any questions, feel free to reach out, if you have any suggestions
|
||||
on, if you have any suggestions on good quality, I sickle lights without building your own,
|
||||
please let me know, my step, other roast them, likes them, prefers them, and I like them,
|
||||
but I don't want to have to do the strip, wire, LED thing, that doesn't sound like fun to me at all.
|
||||
So anyways, if anybody has any suggestions on that, let me know, and take it easy, record a show.
|
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