Mega tree effects overlapping

[gadjetman]

My effects seem to overlap.

Its my first year adding pixels to my display and have them up and running almost perfectly after over two months of constant research building and testing.

Im trying to control a 20' mega tree with 32 strings 50 pixels each and a 3 star topper and base ring with 4  strands of 100 pixels each.

The tree is connected to 2 E682's and the stars and base are connected to 1 pixcon16.

The effects are were added to last years sequences with PE so I'm using the USB RS485 for the LOR stuff and running E1.31 unicast from my laptop to a switch. The controlers connect to the same switch. I thought maybe because of bad network cables, changed them and same result.  At first my channel configurations were'nt correct but after playing with the E682 configuration settings I got the effects to show the same or at least very similar to PE even text shows, but they're always overlapped with another effect.

I'm hoping someone has solved a similar problem or could point me in the right direction.

 

[Dennis Laff]

How many universe are you using

[gadjetman]

I've got the E682's set for 16 Universes and the Pixcon16 for 4  = 20 total, The Pixcon16 connections (topper and base) look OK, I ran out of time to make full use of it this year, there's just something not right with the tree.

Following are my settings

 

PC Set up -  IP Address 192.168.1.69, Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0, no internet, no wireless just direct cat5e cable to network switch.

 

E682-1 Setup - IP Address 192.168.1.70, Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0, Receive mode Inicast E1.31
Output Configuration, Outputs in Use, Output Type, Length Pixels, GroupSize,  Color order,   Start Universe,  StartChannel
    1‐1 to 1‐4                           4                2811                 50                      1                RGB                1                     1

    2‐1 to 2‐4                           4                2811                 50                      1                RGB                3                     1

    3‐1 to 3‐4                           4                2811                 50                      1                RGB                5                     1

    4‐1 to 4‐4                           4                2811                 50                      1                RGB                7                     1

 

E682-2 Setup - IP Address 192.168.1.70, Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0, Receive mode Inicast E1.31
Output Configuration, Outputs in Use, Output Type, Length Pixels, GroupSize,  Color order,   Start Universe,  StartChannel
    1‐1 to 1‐4                           4                2811                 50                      1                RGB               9                      1

    2‐1 to 2‐4                           4                2811                 50                      1                RGB              11                     1

    3‐1 to 3‐4                           4                2811                 50                      1                RGB              13                     1

    4‐1 to 4‐4                           4                2811                 50                      1                RGB              15                     1

 

Pixcon16 Setup - Using Four outputs with 4 - 100 pixel strings, Universe 17 to 20

 

Mega Tree Setup in PE - Tree 360 Wedges, Actual # Strings 32, Nodes per String 50, # Folds in each string 0, Starting location Bottom Right, Channel DMX, Max Channel 512 , Individual Start Channels yes

Universe setup -

Item 1 Universe 1 Channel 1 to 150

Item 2 Universe 1 Channel 151 to 300

Item 3 Universe 2 Channel 1 to 150

Item 4 Universe 2 Channel 151 to 300

Item 5 Universe 3 Channel 1 to 150 and so on to  item 32

[Dennis Laff]

Each e682 you have its own IP address

[Dennis Laff]

I have a 30 string pixel tree running on 1 e682 10 universe three strings of 50 pixels 150 pixels per universe

[gadjetman]

I typed that out wrong. One e682 is 192.168.1.70 and the other is 192.168.1.71.  I used the colormotions design for my tree so 32 idividual strings of technicolor pixels. I used 2 e682s to keep the strings separate. I use a long pole to put them up on hooks on my topper. Initially I tried to use 2 Antec PC power supplies but they kept cutting out on me. I replaced those with a couple of  350 watt meanwell power supplies. I did notice that when all the lights are on my voltage drops to around 9 from 12, maybe this is an issue, the strings fully lite from top to bottom.