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Actually it wasn't much soldering (except for the power injection and connectors). I had Ray Wu make me customized pebble pixels. 10 pixels=>1 meter wire=>10 pixels=>1 meter wire (etc) I created the Peace Stakes in groups of ten so I didn't have so many connections (and less changes of my connections getting wet).

I will be 65 next month (so maybe a senior), and have been playing with 2-way radio for over 50 years. Got my ham license 47 years ago, and a FCC 1st class RadioTelephone license 44 years ago. Been working professionally in communications / electronics for 44 years as well. Part of my job also involves electrical work (both 120/240Volt AC and also high current 48V DC). Also worked as a broadcast engineer (the audio side of it, not RF side) So, yea, I might know a thing or two on the subject of electronics. Like many others here, very happy to share my experience.

Thank you Mr P and thanks for your service. I'll do this

Ethernet is good to 300ft. RS 485 is good to 4000ft.

If your S6 Preview is setup correctly then it should only take 4 or 5 Minutes to convert your S4 Sequences to S6

Thank you for your help.

Start here. http://itsmebob.com/SD.html BobO has the papagayo link for the software. In addition he has created a a Program call Papagayo to LOR. It uses that data created by Papagayo files and turns that into Clipboard files to then post in sequences. I use it all the time. He also has tutorial videos linked to.

Thank you!! Phil has a keen eye for those items and appreciate him and all individuals in this forum has helped me on. After retiring in December 22, Year 23 was a lot of honey-do projects to catch up on and programming and prop prep was the last on the list. This year is much better, still have honey-do projects to work on but I have a LOT more time to devote to programming and prop prep. Very thankful this forum is here to rely on when I do not understand what is happening with programming and props. Did get a 3D printer and printing out some prop pieces (prop mounts, ect) to assist with better display of the props. There are a LOT of items to use with your props in 3D!!! Will need some clarification when I start hooking up the pixie link this year to replace my MP3 Director. So look for me in the forum with some of those Pixie Link questions....LOL Thank you everyone for the suggestions!!! John

Problem solved by Phil's quick look. The one thing I did not check in Preview Design was the resolution when grouping the tree with the star (tree and star have separate ids). It ended up 1 thru 4 mini trees resolution were set to 13 by 75 where mini trees 5 thru 8 were set at 2 by 8 resolution. Changed the last 4 mini trees to 13 x 75, tried copy from 1 thru 4 and paste 5 thru 8, ran a visual from the sequence, everything worked! Something as simple as not changing the resolution can cause problems. The problem came not from a copy and paste issue from Preview Design (use number 4 mini tree to make 4 copies) it was when I grouped each star id to its tree id and did not max out the resolution. Thank you Phil for catching it and everybody else for your suggestions!! Happy Easter, John

I have played around with Stem creation on cloud based sites before but not using a local running program. OpenVINO is a plug in which runs in Audacity entirely on your local machine. Once installed it will breakout any music file in up to four stems. Drums, Bass, Vocals and other instruments. IMO, it does a pretty good job with a minimum of artifacts. So if you have a song where you just can't quite make out some of the details, it might be worth a try. There are three other modules included besides the music splitter, Noise Reduction, Speech transcription and AI music generation. No messing about with logins, demos and the price is right......free. It's fairly easy to install into Audacity and can be found on Github along with instructions. It only works with Audacity v 3.4.2 and higher. https://github.com/intel/openvino-plugins-ai-audacity/releases

With 1 panel at 200w it takes about 11 hours to charge. AC takes a solid hour. I have 2 panels so I should be able to get the solar charge time down to maybe 6 or 7 hours. I have tested with simple devices, mostly USB items. AC items include a lamp, fan, and things like that. This weekend I will be testing out the projector and speakers to see how well it handles. After I get some stats with that, I will start to play around with the controllers for the show and see what it can do. The quality of the generator is great. It's about the size of a small ice cooler and weighs about 30lbs or so. Now the solar panels are awesome. Unfolded they are about 6ft in length. Once you are done, they fold up into this little hard case with a handle. Very nice and makes for some easy storage. If it can run my air fryer for a couple hours, I will be in hog heaven!