jeremylego
New member
Hello,
So we finally made the switch to LED lights this year. We are running 3 Oslen 595 with renard dimmers and 1 grinch board with a renard dimmer (and a parallel port with some solid state relays). We have been having some dimming issues: To start out, Led sets (multiple stings attached together) that have more then 400 bulbs won't dim at all. Ones with about 300 bulbs dim if an incandescent bulb (nightlight style) is attached to it. 200-300 bulb strings flicker but this can also be fixed by the night light bulb. Is there a way to get these 400 bulb channels to dim? they seem to be On/Off... With the amount of channels we have, it is starting to get kinda crazy to deal with all the dimming problems. Any suggestions? Also We bought some icicle style lights and some green "Martha Stewart" brand LED lights that seem to have larger plugs and these don't dim at all (transistor or something built into the plug). I should mention that we are still using Vixen 2.5.0.7, don't like the layout of the new one much and haven't done any pixels yet so this seems to fit our needs.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
--On a side note, anyone have 595 boards for sale?
--Secondary side note: I am not the best at circuits, Majoring in ME, but my dad is an Electrical engineer and we did build all our own stuff so technical advice is great too!
This years light show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_SKTTZiXyE
So we finally made the switch to LED lights this year. We are running 3 Oslen 595 with renard dimmers and 1 grinch board with a renard dimmer (and a parallel port with some solid state relays). We have been having some dimming issues: To start out, Led sets (multiple stings attached together) that have more then 400 bulbs won't dim at all. Ones with about 300 bulbs dim if an incandescent bulb (nightlight style) is attached to it. 200-300 bulb strings flicker but this can also be fixed by the night light bulb. Is there a way to get these 400 bulb channels to dim? they seem to be On/Off... With the amount of channels we have, it is starting to get kinda crazy to deal with all the dimming problems. Any suggestions? Also We bought some icicle style lights and some green "Martha Stewart" brand LED lights that seem to have larger plugs and these don't dim at all (transistor or something built into the plug). I should mention that we are still using Vixen 2.5.0.7, don't like the layout of the new one much and haven't done any pixels yet so this seems to fit our needs.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
--On a side note, anyone have 595 boards for sale?
--Secondary side note: I am not the best at circuits, Majoring in ME, but my dad is an Electrical engineer and we did build all our own stuff so technical advice is great too!
This years light show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_SKTTZiXyE