justaplaneguy
New member
Well -
Pretty much did everything on my own successfully for the first time ever. Built my own pixelsticks, built 5 controllers, a bunch of power and data cables out of ethernet cable, hung my 18 foot mega tree and star and 4 large arches, and got it all working successfully with a bunch of xlights sequences. Pretty satisfied, but I wish I did my megatree in higher definition.
I have to say, I was disappointed in Boscayo's strips. They came in various lengths instead of a nice single roll I could cut to the right length myself which forced me to splice every strip and several broke and made life difficult. That all said, I feel like the most expensive piece of the entire project was these strips when you compare value spent on other things (i.e. LED Nodes.... 1000 for $150, 600 watt power supply for $25, etc...). I wanted to do a 32 strand full 360 tree, but after all the hanging issues and strip breaking or splices breaking, I only had enough to do 16 and decided to do a 180 tree instead.
Hindsight 20 / 20.... I probably should have done 1.5" spacing instead of 3". What I really wanted was a higher definition mega tree. I'm not dissatisfied, but I wish it was a little better resolution. So.... I'd like to order a spool of 1000 ft for the next time. But looking up pricing, this stuff seems ridiculously over priced, and i'm not going with boscayo again. Where would someone go get this stuff in bulk for the best bang for the buck nowadays?
Pretty much did everything on my own successfully for the first time ever. Built my own pixelsticks, built 5 controllers, a bunch of power and data cables out of ethernet cable, hung my 18 foot mega tree and star and 4 large arches, and got it all working successfully with a bunch of xlights sequences. Pretty satisfied, but I wish I did my megatree in higher definition.
I have to say, I was disappointed in Boscayo's strips. They came in various lengths instead of a nice single roll I could cut to the right length myself which forced me to splice every strip and several broke and made life difficult. That all said, I feel like the most expensive piece of the entire project was these strips when you compare value spent on other things (i.e. LED Nodes.... 1000 for $150, 600 watt power supply for $25, etc...). I wanted to do a 32 strand full 360 tree, but after all the hanging issues and strip breaking or splices breaking, I only had enough to do 16 and decided to do a 180 tree instead.
Hindsight 20 / 20.... I probably should have done 1.5" spacing instead of 3". What I really wanted was a higher definition mega tree. I'm not dissatisfied, but I wish it was a little better resolution. So.... I'd like to order a spool of 1000 ft for the next time. But looking up pricing, this stuff seems ridiculously over priced, and i'm not going with boscayo again. Where would someone go get this stuff in bulk for the best bang for the buck nowadays?