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  • Re: Xmas Light Box

    From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Mortifis on Mon Dec 23 23:06:23 2019
    Re: Re: Xmas Light Box
    By: Mortifis to MRO on Mon Dec 23 2019 07:02 pm

    can you post a photo of this setup? kinda makes me worry.

    Why would you worry? The wire guage and amp are all well within specs,
    the box is properly grounded and using a multimeter on each channel shows well under limits and the core temp is running at 36.6 c

    Photos ... http://alleycat.synchro.net:81/dls/index.html


    okay, looks safe. if you plug it in and it doesnt blow up, it's good.
    i wouldnt have stripped back the wires that far, though.
    it does look weird but as long as it works.
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  • From Mortifis@VERT/ALLEYCAT to MRO on Tue Dec 24 11:57:05 2019
    Re: Re: Xmas Light Box
    By: Mortifis to MRO on Mon Dec 23 2019 07:02 pm

    can you post a photo of this setup? kinda makes me worry.

    Why would you worry? The wire guage and amp are all well within specs, the box is properly grounded and using a multimeter on each channel shows well under limits and the core temp is running at 36.6 c

    Photos ... http://alleycat.synchro.net:81/dls/index.html


    okay, looks safe. if you plug it in and it doesnt blow up, it's good.
    i wouldnt have stripped back the wires that far, though.
    it does look weird but as long as it works.

    It looks less weird with the side panels on, as far as the wire stripping I used Liquid Electrical Tape to clean it up, and yes, it does work very well, it controls 12 channels remotely via a web interface I scripted or timed channel events or it even takes voice commands via the STT/TTS scripts I wrote; bluetooth speaker and headless ... my Tab 10 is the monitor ... anyway, thanks for your interest,

    Merry Christmas

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  • From Mortifis@VERT/ALLEYCAT to Grease on Tue Dec 24 13:27:57 2019
    Re: Xmas Light Box
    By: MRO to Mortifis on Sat Nov 30 2019 04:39 pm

    has separate plugs made by breaking the tabs on 6 120v wall sockets and controll by 1 Kuman 8 channel controller and 1 Kuman 4 channel controller which in tu are controlled by a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ running Raspbian Deb Stretch, Apache2, php7 and Python 3. I gutted out the PC power supply

    can you post a photo of this setup? kinda makes me worry.

    There is a aquarium reef controller very similar to this called reef-pi that you build yourself.


    Ya, there are a lot of projects that can be made using an RPi, one thing I'd like to get for mine is a UPS power hat and switch with led and power meter ... cheers brah

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Mortifis on Tue Dec 24 12:15:49 2019
    Re: Re: Xmas Light Box
    By: Mortifis to MRO on Tue Dec 24 2019 11:57 am

    i wouldnt have stripped back the wires that far, though.
    it does look weird but as long as it works.

    It looks less weird with the side panels on, as far as the wire stripping I used Liquid Electrical Tape to clean it up, and yes, it does work very well, controls 12 channels remotely via a web interface I scripted or timed channe events or it even takes voice commands via the STT/TTS scripts I wrote; bluetooth speaker and headless ... my Tab 10 is the monitor ... anyway, than for your interest,


    i used to build and repair cystoscopes and a device for trans urethral needle arberation [and other things for the past 24 years].

    usually the rule is that if it works, it works. and dont spend too much time working on something. the more you work on something tiny and delicate the more you can mess something up.
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