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re: jellyfish or govee (or something else)?
Posted on 9/2/26 at 12:23 pm to CAD703X
Posted on 9/2/26 at 12:23 pm to CAD703X
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i'm hoping to lay all of this out on the floor and do lots of dry runs before the hondurans tape 3 ladders together so they can reach the eaves for the install.
I rented a cherry picker for this and it was worth every penny...
Posted on 9/3/26 at 4:59 pm to Lonnie Utah
Ok I’m backtracking. All my WLED stuff is inside and PoE. Outside is a whole different animal but your thread was encouraging enough to just go ahead and do it. Using dedicated 12v and lots of 12/2 and 16/3 fire rated wire.
This post was edited on 9/3/26 at 5:00 pm
Posted on 9/3/26 at 5:36 pm to Dallaswho
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Using dedicated 12v and lots of 12/2 and 16/3 fire rated wire.
Good luck. With 12v it should be good with 16/3 (depending on how far you have to run it). On my 5v system, I ended up with having to run close to 100' of 14/2 to the far end of my house to get the farthest pixels the same brightness as the ones in the middle 1/3 where I started the power injection. The 18/3 wire I used initially wasn't sufficient to keep the voltage from dropping at that corner of m house.
This post was edited on 9/3/26 at 5:37 pm
Posted on 9/3/26 at 5:54 pm to Lonnie Utah
I ordered 100’ each 12/2, 16/3 and 18/3 full copper CMR/cmp. Plan on putting front and back/pool 4 channel controllers centrally located. My IT area is centrally located in the narrow part of the house, close to both, so lucked out there. It’s also up high in an attic-connected cubby hole.
Come to think of it, 16/2 would have made sense for injection, but I’m going to have independent channels because lots of disconnected areas. Or have to extend the line with 3 wires back into the attic and onto the next section. Maybe just a couple injections.
Edit again. Ordered some 16/2. Damn y’all. I hate optimizing. Rather build.
Come to think of it, 16/2 would have made sense for injection, but I’m going to have independent channels because lots of disconnected areas. Or have to extend the line with 3 wires back into the attic and onto the next section. Maybe just a couple injections.
Edit again. Ordered some 16/2. Damn y’all. I hate optimizing. Rather build.
This post was edited on 9/3/26 at 6:39 pm
Posted on 9/16/26 at 9:58 am to Dallaswho
Another update. Doing some long outdoor runs, experimenting with all the different weather protection and mounting. The aluminum channels are really great at a great price but probably stick to the ip67 “rope” or “tube” form factor for the strips. Ip30 and ip65 both expose the back side pads so I would worry about a short.
Just mounted first 13m using ip65 in aluminum channels and I had to run electrical tape down the channel first for peace of mind, then fold it over the ends and behind the clamps so it would stay. All form factors have their quirks so having to cut a tube back, solder, and add a little silicone really isn’t that bad.
Also you can get a 30 pack of coupler clamps on aliexpress for like $10 and these are much more sturdy than the single screw clamps included with the channels.
Just mounted first 13m using ip65 in aluminum channels and I had to run electrical tape down the channel first for peace of mind, then fold it over the ends and behind the clamps so it would stay. All form factors have their quirks so having to cut a tube back, solder, and add a little silicone really isn’t that bad.
Also you can get a 30 pack of coupler clamps on aliexpress for like $10 and these are much more sturdy than the single screw clamps included with the channels.
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