Expanding RGB for next year,

[BarryLights]

I have been using LOR for years and added RGB last year and this year. Now that 2016 is over, I am planning to do a major change in my display and expand the use of RGB in my display. I am building a pixel matrix that will be 50 pixels wide and 36 rows. I have several questions and I am looking for any guidance that anyone can offer. I now that an easy approach would be to drive each row of 50 with an RGB channel but this would require 36 channels. I know that a PIXCON16 would do 16 channels per controller.

The controller states that it can drive 150 pixels a channel so if I could do that, I would use 12 channels and 12 controller  (3 rows per channel). My questions are:

1.       Can I drive 150 pixels from each controller channel?

2.       Would I have to convert to DMX to do so?

3.       How would this be programmed in the LOR environment. I have used Superstar for my star fish and arches to date (I have an aquatic them as I live in Florida) . I have seen comments that 150 pixels can be programmed in Superstar but how would this work in a matrix?

4.       Is there a better way to program this in place of Superstar?

My goal is to display pictures and other effects on the matrix.

Any help would be appreciated.

[brichi]

following

 

5. which RGB strips to use? I am wondering if i can use regular CCD (3 leds per pixel) or use strips that you control each and every led

[mpageler]

With your statement 1 channel per rows or 36 channels for entire matrix, this indicates  you don't realize the difference between dumb and smart rgb.  For a matrix, you want to control each of  the 1650 pixel..50x36 individually, not as an entire row with 1 channel. 

From the top search bar, do a thread title search by "matrix".  This will keep you busy reading for a while on everything involved with building a matrix..frames, lights, layout, etc. So do some research and come back with followup questions.

 

BTW, youy know how much such a matric would  cost?  A bunch

 

 

[brichi]

i meant *CCR, not CCD

[BarryLights]

Appreciate the response. My statement was misleading, Where I was going with this is a string of 150 smart pixels which would give me three rows. This would make three rows of 50 pixels and I could make this one channel on a Pixie16. I would then do this 11 more times and use 12 channels of the controller to program 12 strings getting the 26 rows. I have done a lot of research on building the matrix and I have a cost for the matrix itself that is within the budget I want to spend. It comes down to how many channels that will be and how many controllers/channels. Appreciate you mentioning the message boards, I will do some research on that and see what comes up. On to 2017....