Custom Bullet String Length

[Coop]

Looking to retrofit 20+ pumpkin blow molds from C7 bulbs to bullet pixels (2 pixels per pumpkin) connected to a pixie controller.

I will be soldering 3 pin 12V male ends to each pixel group. Never tried this so looking for a little advice. Is this as easy as soldering the ends and configuring custom string in sequence editor or is there more to it?

Would each custom string be String 1 (S1) Pixel 1 (P1) and Pixel 2 (P2) then S2 P1 & P2, S3 P1 & P2 and so on or are the pixel nodes numbered on each string 1-50 and thus would have to = S1 P1 & P2,  S2 P3 & P4, S3 P5 & P6 etc?

Any advice/assistance would be greatly appreciated. One other question does anyone know for certain the pin outs on the plugs 12v, D, Gnd?

LOR documentation states the striped wire is ground so if looking at the plug with the 2 pins on top would Top Left = power, Top Right = Ground and bottom pin = data?

 

Thanks in advance

Edited August 24 by Coop

[TheDucks]

IMHO 2 bullets won't cut it.

I replace a C7 (and socket) with a 3" piece of PVC  with 4 ribbon segments  (3 led per segment) on the 4  sides of the PVC (Mine are actually dumb RGB, but you can use SMART the same way)

The only advantage of these is you can color change (I mostly use a flicker yellow -orange ). The disadvantage is total wire length if the Pumpkins are spaced too far apart .

[k6ccc]

I'm going to agree with The Ducks - two bullet pixels is no where near enough.  I'm going to give you two examples from my display.  First off is my Holiday Coro Candy Canes.  These have a three RGB module inside an area that is about four by five inches and the light source is about three inches from the coro that the audience sees.  It's BARELY bright enough.  You can see what the Holiday Coro Candy Canes look like here:  https://www.holidaycoro.com/RGB-Coro-Cane-Cane-for-Pixels-p/260.htm

The second example is my column lights.  These are fairly typical lights that are on top of brick columns.  I gutted the light fixtures inside and instead there is three meters of 60 RGB LEDs / meter dumb strip wrapped around a piece of two inch diameter ABS pipe - a total of 180 RGB LEDs.  The top photo linked below shows what the inside looks like, and the bottom shows the two columns lit up (yes, the photo was taken with the camera strobe on - hence the reason you can see the brick and grass).

http://www.newburghlights.org/photos/Column_light_top-2.jpg

http://www.newburghlights.org/Landscaping.html

Edited August 24 by k6ccc

[TheDucks]

Here is what I did for 'Pa Pumpkin' (~12")  (I have a smaller 'Ma Pumpkin') How i add lights differs to what fits and how the original was oriented

(These originally were AC and were on boxes (so they could see over the dash)  in the front seat of my F350, with a bunch of Kids (path markers) in the Back seat)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IYdh9XcL7N3m1arSx2H6gQqvP6MnKRp_/view?usp=drive_link

 

I also have a Dragon skull the I Smarted : (I abandoned the simple Battery LEDS)

I placed 3 Bullets in the Mouth, 2 The Nostrils, 2 Eyes

  https://drive.google.com/file/d/15zcYmXAR3B2vqhYox3_RNU8t0iIyohOp/view?usp=drive_link

[Box on Rails]

I have The same hard plastic pumpkins and I used 10 pixels per pumpkin.

 

One thing to remember is that pixels use 3 circuit's each. so in your example above it would be Pixel 1 has 3 circuits. circuit 1 red, circuit 2 green, circuit 3 Blue. Pixel 2 circuit 4 red, circuit 5 Green. circuit 6 Blue.  and so on. Three circuit per pixels. 

I see you're using S5. I would suggest upgrading to S6 but not until January. What controller are you using for the pixels?

[Coop]

 

The Ducks/k6ccc: Did a test and you are both correct 2 bullets are not enough so I'm going with 5 for smaller to medium pumpkins and will add more as needed for the larger ones.

 

I'm using LOR 6.3.0 (just updated profile). I will be using Pixie16 and Pixie 8 controllers (I do halloween and christmas shows so share hardware between the shows).

Thanks for the advice everyone!