Anyone have experience using the "EVO Pixels" by Mattos Designs?

I like them.
Light weight and plenty bright. Downside IMO is light bleed when using them in white coro.
(Sample I got pre-release).
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In comparison to a seed pixel:
Wire is around 22awg and the LED within the EVO seems to be the same used in 12v seed pixels.
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I redid by tree with 2000 EVOs. I had one string of 100 fail (stupid me, did not order spares). I replaced it will regular bullets as a stopgap measure. They have a three year warranty for UNCUT strings, so it is best to keep some spares They will be sending me a replacement string this month (I think) - they did not have any in stock last December (again,, get spares).

The wire gauge is a bit thin, but that contributes to their light weight (and really, they are pretty much "seed" pixels encased in a plastic puck). Note that they have new ones with four wires this year (extra data line) and also note there are several other similar products on Ali******* (and they show their products in pixel strips) so this may be a popular option going forward. I think that these would be great for mounted props since they only weigh a fraction of "regular" bullets. The photo shows them side by side - at night from a distance the difference is hardly noticable.


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I have over 8K of them. I put them in several matrixes. What I like is they are much lighter and easier to store when rolling up my 4x8' sheets. The color looks as good as bullets to me. They come with a good warranty as long as they aren't cut.
What I don't like is the wires are very thin which means you have to power inject more often in high density props. The wires are too small to use clickits for splicing. I use 3M Scotchloks. I have had a higher failure rate than with bullet nodes. I've had 6 bad pixels out of the 8K. That's not high but just more than I've had with other pixels. Mattos is very good about replacing bad strings. I have only put them in 4x8 mesh so I don't have experience with putting them in Coro.
 
Update a month later. I've had 6 more fail. I'm not happy. All the failures have been on the latest batch I got this year. They are exposed to weather. Seems like every other nught another goes out. Mine are probably due to rain a few weeks ago. A friend told me he's had a lot of failures due to water intrusion. He said he's pulling all his out. I won't be buying any more.
 
We tried 2400 of them in our mega tree last year (24 strings of 100). My wife didn't like the look of them compared to normal pixels. The light wasn't as directed and seemed to make things look blurry particularly images. If she doesn't like them then out they go. I did have several failures and luckily ordered extras. I ended up needing 6 strings out of 24 strings replaced. So, 25% failure. One of the failures were right at the xconnect connector. Something that could be easily fixed. Other issues where strings would not work unless I unplugged/plugged them in several times. This happened towards the end of the season last year. Got annoying doing that most nights. We are going back to the regular pixels and not sure if we are going to be using these anymore. Might put them in some smaller props, not sure. The weight difference was incredible though. As we were switching pixels back from the EVOs it was crazy the difference in each string.

Mattos was great with warranty replacement, and as a company I would buy from them again. I am passing on newer pixels until all the bugs have been worked out.
 
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