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1 | Welcome to a comparison of lighting boards available to the do it yourself lighters of the world. | The information in these pages is as accurate as I can make it, that being said please let me know if something is wrong or missing You should be able to click any cell and add a note, if possible id love a link to where you got the correct or changed information |
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3 | Notes for different pages | Pages are listed in the bottom left |
4 | Page 1 Pixel controllers | Draft as of 1-15-14 (should be upto date by 1-24-14) |
5 | If there are any major controllers missing please let me know | Any controller that outputs more than 170 pixels in a single strand may have problems keeping up with true dmx timeing of 25ms, and if one pixel fails it could take out more of your display |
6 | Renard mostly comes in two flavors high-speed @ 460800 and low-speed @ 57600 (to possibly 115200) | |
7 | Page 2 Pixel controller compare price | Draft as of 1-15-14 (should be upto date by 1-24-14) |
8 | While it’s not lost on us that some systems are set up to carry data and power too pixels over a single cat cable (with a converter board at the end), we believe that you can achieve the same thing by placing power (3+/3-) and data (1- / 1+) in a cat cable and using null pixels (~$0.50) every 20 feet to achieve the same thing, and nulls would be more cost effective (but take more time to connect) until about 250' and at 200+' its highly unlikely that a cat cable will carry enough power for the pixels anyway | these parts are not included in the price comparison page, because it is believed that they are almost exactly the same price between any system Software = software (compatibility with an interface not withstanding) Dc power = DC power (12v will need less ejection than 5v) Ethernet switching = Ethernet switching (8ports is only $10 on Newegg) cat5 cabling = cat5 cabling (as noted some systems use cat cable by default for power, but you can likely do that with any 12v system) 2811 8bit <> the closest equivalent 4 wire <> 3 wire Cases <> Cases (most of these controllers don’t come with cases or pigtails) Shipping and handling (likely different to each individual) Try to use same “brand” of parts if more are necessary to get to highest utilization |
9 | It’s worth noting that some systems do better at being small, they don’t scale well, and other systems scale to insane sizes but don’t do well at being small | Cost per pixels (Ray) as of 1-14 WS2811 pixel .34 WS2811 strip 10ic 6.4m WS2811 strip 30ic 6.6m TM1804 pixel .36 TM1809 strip 10ic 10.50m WS2801 pixel .34 WS2801 strip 13.26 MY994x <- dmx based pixel |
10 | Page 3 AC controllers | Still being worked on draft to be done by 2-1-14 |
11 | Renard mostly comes in two flavors high-speed @ 460800 and low-speed @ 57600 (to possibly 115200) | |
12 | Page 4 DC controllers | Still being worked on draft to be done by 2-16-14 |
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