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If you really want to get serious with WLED, check out the new Quinled-Dig-Octa boards. Super affordable and hands down the easiest way to get thousands of ligh

If you really want to get serious with WLED, check out the new Quinled-Dig-Octa boards. Super affordable and hands down the easiest way to get thousands of lights setup. 50-100A of LEDs, no problem! You’ll spend more on the power supply than you will on Quindor’s top notch boards. https://quinled.info https://quinled.info (Not affiliated in any way except being a very happy customer)

khimaros 4y ago
+1000, we built a large scale art installation using Quinn's DigQuad. they were easily the single most significant and prudent technical decision made for our project. amazing community, documentation, and high quality product.
- lostlogin 4y ago
  Any chance of a link or photo or something?
- whatusername 4y ago
  I'm curious -- why something small like a DigQuad and not something beefier like a Falcon/Kulp? (I guess I'm not sure what you mean by "large scale" -- but WLED/ESP32 doesn't really tick the large box for me)
  - jsjohnst 4y ago
    > but WLED/ESP32 doesn't really tick the large box for me Sure, you can only run about 2,000 pixels off a single ESP32 running WLED, but there’s no reason you can’t run a bunch of them. I have seven ESP32s driving just shy of 10k pixels myself and I’d personally consider that a large display. I dunno about you, but 3,300 watts of light is definitely not “small scale”.
    - whatusername 4y ago
      For a home Christmas light display or something similar - I guess 10k can count as large. (I’m running ~14k, about 1100 of them from WLED). For commercial/art installations - I don’t think that’s “large” though. Something like a f16v4 can run 33k pixels. But maybe you want more points of control remotely distributed?
      - jsjohnst 4y ago
        Ah, I see what you mean, yes, commercial displays could easily be much larger. But more often than not, they are driven from a video signal. I looked into the commercial grade LED matrix panels from China. Price wasn’t bad itself considering how many LEDs, but shipping would’ve been $1500/panel and then you also need to buy all the hardware too (as they aren’t WS28xx or similar compatible).
      - jsjohnst 4y ago
        > I’m running ~14k, about 1100 of them from WLED What are you using for the rest? Another controller or at they static? My ~10k is all individually addressable ws28xx lights (mostly 5V LEDs, but I buck convert immediately before the strips and run back at 24V. I’ve definitely seen way bigger than both of our setups,
        whatusername 4y ago
        I’ve got a pair of these: https://pixelcontroller.com/store/products/70-f16v4.html https://pixelcontroller.com/store/products/70-f16v4.html on either side of the house - local to where the bulk of the pixels are (2 x megatrees and a matrix). And a couple of recievers out from there to other points.
leros 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. I'm about to build a 20-30m long installation of LEDs and I've been working out the power distribution needs and such. This site is a perfect resource.
semi-extrinsic 4y ago
Not sure how it compares, but I've been using the Evil Genius Labs breakout boards for Wemos D1 and ESP32. They do level shifting and provide very convenient access for attaching multiple LED strips and using them with FastLED or WLED. Currently running the Christmas lights from one of these, and I've had another one banging around for a couple of years running a LED strip that goes around the kids' bicycle trailer, surviving frost and rain and salt spray, just powered off a USB powerbank.
ipsum2 4y ago
Newbie question: how is this different than using an Arduino + power injection?
- jsjohnst 4y ago
  Reliability and convenience. Sure, I could easily buy an Arduino, TTL shifters, resisters, fuses, etc etc, or I could buy a DigQuad at $25 or a DigOcta bundle for around $60 and know that all the safeguards were thought of already. In life, there’s only so much time, so you pick how you want to spend it!

khimaros 4y ago

+1000, we built a large scale art installation using Quinn's DigQuad. they were easily the single most significant and prudent technical decision made for our project. amazing community, documentation, and high quality product.

lostlogin 4y ago
Any chance of a link or photo or something?
whatusername 4y ago
I'm curious -- why something small like a DigQuad and not something beefier like a Falcon/Kulp? (I guess I'm not sure what you mean by "large scale" -- but WLED/ESP32 doesn't really tick the large box for me)
- jsjohnst 4y ago
  > but WLED/ESP32 doesn't really tick the large box for me Sure, you can only run about 2,000 pixels off a single ESP32 running WLED, but there’s no reason you can’t run a bunch of them. I have seven ESP32s driving just shy of 10k pixels myself and I’d personally consider that a large display. I dunno about you, but 3,300 watts of light is definitely not “small scale”.
  - whatusername 4y ago
    For a home Christmas light display or something similar - I guess 10k can count as large. (I’m running ~14k, about 1100 of them from WLED). For commercial/art installations - I don’t think that’s “large” though. Something like a f16v4 can run 33k pixels. But maybe you want more points of control remotely distributed?
    - jsjohnst 4y ago
      Ah, I see what you mean, yes, commercial displays could easily be much larger. But more often than not, they are driven from a video signal. I looked into the commercial grade LED matrix panels from China. Price wasn’t bad itself considering how many LEDs, but shipping would’ve been $1500/panel and then you also need to buy all the hardware too (as they aren’t WS28xx or similar compatible).
    - jsjohnst 4y ago
      > I’m running ~14k, about 1100 of them from WLED What are you using for the rest? Another controller or at they static? My ~10k is all individually addressable ws28xx lights (mostly 5V LEDs, but I buck convert immediately before the strips and run back at 24V. I’ve definitely seen way bigger than both of our setups,
      - whatusername 4y ago
        I’ve got a pair of these: https://pixelcontroller.com/store/products/70-f16v4.html https://pixelcontroller.com/store/products/70-f16v4.html on either side of the house - local to where the bulk of the pixels are (2 x megatrees and a matrix). And a couple of recievers out from there to other points.

leros 4y ago

Thanks for sharing. I'm about to build a 20-30m long installation of LEDs and I've been working out the power distribution needs and such. This site is a perfect resource.

semi-extrinsic 4y ago

Not sure how it compares, but I've been using the Evil Genius Labs breakout boards for Wemos D1 and ESP32. They do level shifting and provide very convenient access for attaching multiple LED strips and using them with FastLED or WLED. Currently running the Christmas lights from one of these, and I've had another one banging around for a couple of years running a LED strip that goes around the kids' bicycle trailer, surviving frost and rain and salt spray, just powered off a USB powerbank.

ipsum2 4y ago

Newbie question: how is this different than using an Arduino + power injection?

jsjohnst 4y ago
Reliability and convenience. Sure, I could easily buy an Arduino, TTL shifters, resisters, fuses, etc etc, or I could buy a DigQuad at $25 or a DigOcta bundle for around $60 and know that all the safeguards were thought of already. In life, there’s only so much time, so you pick how you want to spend it!