caniac Posted February 2, 2017 Author Share Posted February 2, 2017 I don't want to buy four HC controllers ($800). Am hoping there are other options or less expensive. Dumb controller would be easier to program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Laff Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 What type lights are you using and what controllers are you trying to use that cost $800.00 for 4 singing trees . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caniac Posted February 3, 2017 Author Share Posted February 3, 2017 was looking at dumb pixels, the controller was a 9 output dumb RGB controller from HC, $199 per controller and would need one per face. this would be for my singing pumpkin faces I have gotten from Boscoyo Studios. Was doing four faces so after much discussion with HC I would need four controllers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDucks Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Do your power budget. You might not need a 350W PSU per controller, unless geography works against you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Laff Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 50 minutes ago, caniac said: was looking at dumb pixels, the controller was a 9 output dumb RGB controller from HC, $199 per controller and would need one per face. this would be for my singing pumpkin faces I have gotten from Boscoyo Studios. Was doing four faces so after much discussion with HC I would need four controllers. If your handy and shop around you could build those boxes for about half the cost . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caniac Posted February 3, 2017 Author Share Posted February 3, 2017 or use my existing LOR controllers and stay old school. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibblejr Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 For ease of use and sequencing I will be keeping my singing faces old school LED until I can get under this RGB stuff. At that point I will consider changing them over. JR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caniac Posted February 3, 2017 Author Share Posted February 3, 2017 that's my thought too, next up is to see if I can squeeze a c6 into a 12mm hole without lube. worst case break out the bacon fat!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibblejr Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 39 minutes ago, caniac said: that's my thought too, next up is to see if I can squeeze a c6 into a 12mm hole without lube. worst case break out the bacon fat!!! I'm actually going to add a couple spins to my singing faces 1) going to add enough outline strings so I can make them appear to shake their groove things 2) two will get some girl accents so they can sing the girl parts as required Shouldnt be very hard to do but may need to add on to the coroplast. Thays a project I will start after the mini. I don't like taking breaks once I start a project 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzAz Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 old school LED 4 singing faces off 1 36 ch DC controller, with 4 channels spare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougd Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 I did 4 20x30 matrix's for my singing faces this past year, I had about 60 different singing faces. My charlie brown gang was my favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibblejr Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 1 hour ago, dougd said: I did 4 20x30 matrix's for my singing faces this past year, I had about 60 different singing faces. My charlie brown gang was my favorite. I would so love to pick your brain on this. First season with RGB nodes this year. Cleveland, TN not to far away LOL. JR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Laff Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 1 hour ago, OzAz said: old school LED 4 singing faces off 1 36 ch DC controller, with 4 channels spare Please explain how you did it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougd Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 22 minutes ago, dibblejr said: I would so love to pick your brain on this. First season with RGB nodes this year. Cleveland, TN not to far away LOL. JR I will dig up some videos. Anytime you want to talk about it just let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibblejr Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 1 minute ago, dougd said: I will dig up some videos. Anytime you want to talk about it just let me know. I know you guys just had your mini, would have liked to attend but I had pneumonia and still recovering from it. Let me know if you have any singing face seq request-, youd just have to convert to RGB. Pretty soon I will learn that. I know there is a conversion tool, I just haven't gotten around to it. Thanks for the offer, will def take you up on it You have some good company up that way. JR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougd Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Just now, dibblejr said: I know you guys just had your mini, would have liked to attend but I had pneumonia and still recovering from it. Let me know if you have any singing face seq request-, youd just have to convert to RGB. Pretty soon I will learn that. I know there is a conversion tool, I just haven't gotten around to it. Thanks for the offer, will def take you up on it You have some good company up that way. JR We will have a mini sometime towards the end of March, We are beginning to plan it right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibblejr Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 5 minutes ago, dougd said: We will have a mini sometime towards the end of March, We are beginning to plan it right now. I thought I seen one posted. Glad I was wrong. I will be driving to the OKC mini. If I am free on your mini weekend I will gladly come if y'all will accept me. Your display is awesome! Don't know what happened to my volume button Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzAz Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 On 2/7/2017 at 2:16 PM, Dennis Laff said: Please explain how you did it ? Using wire frame outline with coloured M5 leds (green for outline, blue/white for eyes, yellow for lips etc) each tree is 8 individual strings (see pic). Connected to a 36 Ch DC dimmer board 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsheehan3 Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Has anyone converted a holidaycoro singing tree from mini-incans/leds to pixels? Can you just "bore" out the hole a bit more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibblejr Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 2 minutes ago, jsheehan3 said: Has anyone converted a holidaycoro singing tree from mini-incans/leds to pixels? Can you just "bore" out the hole a bit more? Its probably been done. I believe the spacing will be a large difference. Probably every 3 holes but I have not done it nor seen it done. I am happy with my mini LED faces. It has been discussed several times in the past 3 -4 months. JR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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