GGG's NovaMatrix marquee light

[Tiger-Heli]

Fozzy - Reply #34 - Hear, Hear!!! I was going to post almost the identical thing, but you said it perfectly.  Perhaps Will stated in a project thread elsewhere his mistake, but that only came out in this thread after Randy's reply.

DK - AFIAK, that would require RGB LED's and I am pretty sure this ships with white ones.  I don't know what would be involved in replacing the LED's with RGB ones or if Randy has (or now has) a planned version with this configuration.  I suspect it would not be very difficult to do, but would likely raise the cost - maybe double it ...

[BobA]

superbrightleds.com has 12 inch RGB LED light bars.  Looks like descrete LEDs  36 on a 12 inch strip.

Led LINK

[MrMojoZ]

superbrightleds.com has 12 inch RGB LED light bars.  Looks like descrete LEDs  36 on a 12 inch strip.

Led LINK

Those things are terrible. I hooked one up to 110v and it died.

[BobA]

That is because you let the Magic Smoke out of the LEDs.

[Donkey_Kong]

DK - AFIAK, that would require RGB LED's and I am pretty sure this ships with white ones.  I don't know what would be involved in replacing the LED's with RGB ones or if Randy has (or now has) a planned version with this configuration.  I suspect it would not be very difficult to do, but would likely raise the cost - maybe double it ...

Sounds like it's pretty much way outside of my ability level then. If it doesn't involve pushing a button, or pulling a string I'm pretty much useless.   

It would be cool, but probably no demand. My marquee is one of my wifes carvings. I'm going to inset this thing a bit and light it from the bottom front lip of my marquee with Randys NovaMatrix. Thats why I would like to change the colors sometimes...Problem is this is a very untraditional marquee and the demand for color changes on this product will be very little. Unless someone could think of a reason for Randy to use RGB's on this product...He would have one sold for sure!

[ARTIFACT]

I love mine!

My cab is on all day sometimes, and the light never gets hot.
Looks great

thank you GGG

[SavannahLion]

DK - AFIAK, that would require RGB LED's and I am pretty sure this ships with white ones.  I don't know what would be involved in replacing the LED's with RGB ones or if Randy has (or now has) a planned version with this configuration.  I suspect it would not be very difficult to do, but would likely raise the cost - maybe double it ...

Sounds like it's pretty much way outside of my ability level then. If it doesn't involve pushing a button, or pulling a string I'm pretty much useless.   

It would be cool, but probably no demand. My marquee is one of my wifes carvings. I'm going to inset this thing a bit and light it from the bottom front lip of my marquee with Randys NovaMatrix. Thats why I would like to change the colors sometimes...Problem is this is a very untraditional marquee and the demand for color changes on this product will be very little. Unless someone could think of a reason for Randy to use RGB's on this product...He would have one sold for sure!

What about EL wire? Purchase three colors in the length you need and the appropriate support hardware and you have your RGB coloring. I've seen systems online that support 3v, 5v, and 12v power configuration. They use converters which up the voltage before hitting the EL wire. If you want it controlled by an LED-Wiz, you'll need a relay depending on where in the power system you install.

[Level42]

Fozzy: 100% agreed. Will left out his mistake in his first posting. That was a much bigger mistake than the actual wiring mistake.

[Kremmit]

DK - AFIAK, that would require RGB LED's and I am pretty sure this ships with white ones.  I don't know what would be involved in replacing the LED's with RGB ones or if Randy has (or now has) a planned version with this configuration.  I suspect it would not be very difficult to do, but would likely raise the cost - maybe double it ...

Sounds like it's pretty much way outside of my ability level then. If it doesn't involve pushing a button, or pulling a string I'm pretty much useless.   

It would be cool, but probably no demand. My marquee is one of my wifes carvings. I'm going to inset this thing a bit and light it from the bottom front lip of my marquee with Randys NovaMatrix. Thats why I would like to change the colors sometimes...Problem is this is a very untraditional marquee and the demand for color changes on this product will be very little. Unless someone could think of a reason for Randy to use RGB's on this product...He would have one sold for sure!

That RGB strip BobA linked a few posts up looks like what you need. 

[Anubis_au]

At any point along my build if I didn't understand how to do something I used the oceans of resources available here to answer my question.

I think that's why you never fried a GGG marquee light, and this bloke did

[Tiger-Heli]

That RGB strip BobA linked a few posts up looks like what you need. 

Agreed!

[Donkey_Kong]

Wow uh BobA...I didn't realize that link was meant for me, even after initially looking at it. I feel so dumb...

BobA link over my head...

[FrizzleFried]

Funny thing is that if Will had just stopped flapping for a minute and actually TOOK MY OFFER, I'd have happily Paypaled him $20.00 that he could have spent on Ultimarc's lighting system.  Oh well...

EDIT: On second thought...maybe we should take up a collection and buy a brand new GGG light for him,  get the molex connector... someone could go by his house and WIRE THAT THING RIGHT UP FOR HIM and THEN maybe he'd give a glowing (no pun intended) review of the GGG part?

[XyloSesame]

Funny thing is that if Will had just stopped flapping for a minute and actually TOOK MY OFFER, I'd have happily Paypaled him $20.00 that he could have spent on Ultimarc's lighting system.  Oh well...

EDIT: On second thought...maybe we should take up a collection and buy a brand new GGG light for him,  get the molex connector... someone could go by his house and WIRE THAT THING RIGHT UP FOR HIM and THEN maybe he'd give a glowing (no pun intended) review of the GGG part?

So let me get this straight:

I've got a NovaMatrix in my parts closet waiting for my cab to magically appear.

And I should splice it directly to my power supply, right?

If done correctly, the part will fry, Randy will give me a $5 credit, you will give me $20, and the community will come to my house and wire everything up for me??

Man, I love this place.

[Tiger-Heli]

And I should splice it directly to my power supply, right?

No, no, no!!! You got to wire it to house current - 100 VAC.  If you splice it to the power supply, it might get 12V and work properly and you'd be out-of-luck!!! 

[FrizzleFried]

We are a GIVING bunch aren't we Xylo?

 

[mccoy178]

Funny thing is that if Will had just stopped flapping for a minute and actually TOOK MY OFFER, I'd have happily Paypaled him $20.00 that he could have spent on Ultimarc's lighting system.  Oh well...

EDIT: On second thought...maybe we should take up a collection and buy a brand new GGG light for him,  get the molex connector... someone could go by his house and WIRE THAT THING RIGHT UP FOR HIM and THEN maybe he'd give a glowing (no pun intended) review of the GGG part?

So let me get this straight:

I've got a NovaMatrix in my parts closet waiting for my cab to magically appear.

And I should splice it directly to my power supply, right?

If done correctly, the part will fry, Randy will give me a $5 credit, you will give me $20, and the community will come to my house and wire everything up for me??

Man, I love this place.

Well, be prepared to never let the conversation die well after it has been ran into the ground and had the weekend to go away.  He'll be sure to get some pointless jab in just for good measure so we don't forget he's here.

[mountain]

This thread reminds me of a customer I had years ago when I installed car stereos.

The guy comes in, buys a stereo and leaves. The next day he comes back in.

Me: “Hey, how’s the new radio?”

Customer: "I was hoping to pick out a new one"

Me: “Why, what’s wrong?”

Customer: “That thing is a piece of crap!”

Me: “Why, what’s wrong?”

Customer: “What's wrong!? Man, I wired that thing up, like, 5 different ways, and it still didn’t work. Show me one that's a little easier to install?”