brichi Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 10 hours ago, MGoBlue102 said: What Amp power supply do you have in the photo? a lot of those looking ones are 5v, 300-350 watt, 60A. For the amount of panels you are doing you definitely need 2 power supplies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebuechner Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 (edited) 38 minutes ago, caniac said: not sure the amperage but it's a 350w 5volt power supply. It's a 60 amp power supply. By using a Raspberry Pi to drive the panels the panels are not drawing as many amps as they normally would. You should figure 2 amps per panel when they're running to full potential like when using a colorlight card. When I switched my 4x8 P10 panel setup from a Raspberry Pi to a color light card I had to add an extra power supply. Edited April 9, 2018 by Ebuechner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGoBlue102 Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 9 minutes ago, Ebuechner said: It's a 60 amp power supply. By using a Raspberry Pi to drive the panels the panels are not drawing as many amps as they normally would. You should figure 2 amps per panel when they're running to full potential like when using a colorlight card. When I switched my 4x8 P10 panel setup from a Raspberry Pi to a color light card I had to add an extra power supply. Aren't you using the raspberry pi along with the color light receiving unit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brichi Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 1 minute ago, MGoBlue102 said: Aren't you using the raspberry pi along with the color light receiving unit? yes but there are 2 ways of doing it raspberry pi with a hat to plug the panels directly into )up to 36 panels I believe total) or Raspberry Pi without the hat plugged into a colorlight card (up 96-112 panels depending on the version of FPP I believe) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGoBlue102 Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 1 minute ago, brichi said: yes but there are 2 ways of doing it raspberry pi with a hat to plug the panels directly into )up to 36 panels I believe total) or Raspberry Pi without the hat plugged into a colorlight card (up 96-112 panels depending on the version of FPP I believe) Okay got it. That is what I will be running as well. I'm still not that familiar with the color light product either. I see it has 16 outlets on it. Is each outlet responsible for a determined number of panels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brichi Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 you can configure them however you want but as of the lates Falcon software each output can handle 14 panels, I have only gotten 12 to run on each output though but I don't need that many, was just doing it as a test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k6ccc Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 The ColorLight card most of us are using is eight outputs - not 16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGoBlue102 Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 49 minutes ago, k6ccc said: The ColorLight card most of us are using is eight outputs - not 16. Oh ok, I saw the 5A-75B and the 5A-75E model, figured the E model was newer/better. No idea exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgardner518 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 On 12/14/2017 at 12:13 PM, caniac said: that's definitely the easy part, mine is pretty light (I used and aluminum frame). It has a groove in the front for plexi if I want to water proof it as well as one behind it. depending on the wind you should have several options. Do you have a picture or link the the Aluminum you used to make the frame? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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