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I'm curious -- why something small like a DigQuad and not something beefier like a Falcon/Kulp? (I guess I'm not sure what you mean by "large scale" -- but WLE

I'm curious -- why something small like a DigQuad and not something beefier like a Falcon/Kulp? (I guess I'm not sure what you mean by "large scale" -- but WLED/ESP32 doesn't really tick the large box for me)

jsjohnst 4y ago
> but WLED/ESP32 doesn't really tick the large box for me Sure, you can only run about 2,000 pixels off a single ESP32 running WLED, but there’s no reason you can’t run a bunch of them. I have seven ESP32s driving just shy of 10k pixels myself and I’d personally consider that a large display. I dunno about you, but 3,300 watts of light is definitely not “small scale”.
- whatusername 4y ago
  For a home Christmas light display or something similar - I guess 10k can count as large. (I’m running ~14k, about 1100 of them from WLED). For commercial/art installations - I don’t think that’s “large” though. Something like a f16v4 can run 33k pixels. But maybe you want more points of control remotely distributed?
  - jsjohnst 4y ago
    Ah, I see what you mean, yes, commercial displays could easily be much larger. But more often than not, they are driven from a video signal. I looked into the commercial grade LED matrix panels from China. Price wasn’t bad itself considering how many LEDs, but shipping would’ve been $1500/panel and then you also need to buy all the hardware too (as they aren’t WS28xx or similar compatible).
  - jsjohnst 4y ago
    > I’m running ~14k, about 1100 of them from WLED What are you using for the rest? Another controller or at they static? My ~10k is all individually addressable ws28xx lights (mostly 5V LEDs, but I buck convert immediately before the strips and run back at 24V. I’ve definitely seen way bigger than both of our setups,
    - whatusername 4y ago
      I’ve got a pair of these: https://pixelcontroller.com/store/products/70-f16v4.html https://pixelcontroller.com/store/products/70-f16v4.html on either side of the house - local to where the bulk of the pixels are (2 x megatrees and a matrix). And a couple of recievers out from there to other points.

jsjohnst 4y ago

> but WLED/ESP32 doesn't really tick the large box for me Sure, you can only run about 2,000 pixels off a single ESP32 running WLED, but there’s no reason you can’t run a bunch of them. I have seven ESP32s driving just shy of 10k pixels myself and I’d personally consider that a large display. I dunno about you, but 3,300 watts of light is definitely not “small scale”.

whatusername 4y ago
For a home Christmas light display or something similar - I guess 10k can count as large. (I’m running ~14k, about 1100 of them from WLED). For commercial/art installations - I don’t think that’s “large” though. Something like a f16v4 can run 33k pixels. But maybe you want more points of control remotely distributed?
- jsjohnst 4y ago
  Ah, I see what you mean, yes, commercial displays could easily be much larger. But more often than not, they are driven from a video signal. I looked into the commercial grade LED matrix panels from China. Price wasn’t bad itself considering how many LEDs, but shipping would’ve been $1500/panel and then you also need to buy all the hardware too (as they aren’t WS28xx or similar compatible).
- jsjohnst 4y ago
  > I’m running ~14k, about 1100 of them from WLED What are you using for the rest? Another controller or at they static? My ~10k is all individually addressable ws28xx lights (mostly 5V LEDs, but I buck convert immediately before the strips and run back at 24V. I’ve definitely seen way bigger than both of our setups,
  - whatusername 4y ago
    I’ve got a pair of these: https://pixelcontroller.com/store/products/70-f16v4.html https://pixelcontroller.com/store/products/70-f16v4.html on either side of the house - local to where the bulk of the pixels are (2 x megatrees and a matrix). And a couple of recievers out from there to other points.