Just got my shipment from Ray including my first time working with Pebble pixels. I can't speak to how well they work from a reliability perspective, but I did want to pass on a few things to the rest of you who might be like me, considering pebble pixels/popper usage.
1. Ray offers Pebble that I believe are a thicker wire that others (20awg)
2. I honestly don't have experience working with Choro shapes and standard bullet pixels, but I am impressed with how light these pebble pixels are. One of the biggest advantages of using Pebble seems to be weight
3. The poppers don't work very well. The Pebbles appear to be too wide to be grabbed by the poppers. This allows the pixels to slide forward if you have extra wire in the back. I'm going to need to find a way to secure these better. And I'm hoping someone designs a better popper that works with these pebbles. Most of them don't move, but I'm going to consider just gluing the pebbles to the poppers.
4. For the Chroma Star I used Pebble pixels with 15cm spacing between. That's too much extra. 10cm would have been better.
5. Ray (as usual) cut my strips to my requested lengths, but the connectors used were much smaller wire gauge than on the Pebbles themselves so I decided to cut them off (wanted to inject power at the end anyway)
6. I also bought a bunch of Ray Wu connectors to help me with power injection and such. On the Pebble pixels the wire with white dots was voltage, but with Ray's connectors the wire with the long dotted line was not. Be careful to check the pin-out when using his connectors.
1. Ray offers Pebble that I believe are a thicker wire that others (20awg)
2. I honestly don't have experience working with Choro shapes and standard bullet pixels, but I am impressed with how light these pebble pixels are. One of the biggest advantages of using Pebble seems to be weight
3. The poppers don't work very well. The Pebbles appear to be too wide to be grabbed by the poppers. This allows the pixels to slide forward if you have extra wire in the back. I'm going to need to find a way to secure these better. And I'm hoping someone designs a better popper that works with these pebbles. Most of them don't move, but I'm going to consider just gluing the pebbles to the poppers.
4. For the Chroma Star I used Pebble pixels with 15cm spacing between. That's too much extra. 10cm would have been better.
5. Ray (as usual) cut my strips to my requested lengths, but the connectors used were much smaller wire gauge than on the Pebbles themselves so I decided to cut them off (wanted to inject power at the end anyway)
6. I also bought a bunch of Ray Wu connectors to help me with power injection and such. On the Pebble pixels the wire with white dots was voltage, but with Ray's connectors the wire with the long dotted line was not. Be careful to check the pin-out when using his connectors.
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