I just purchased a QuinLED-Dig-Quad. I’m fairly new to this so pre-excuse any lack of knowledge.
I’m trying to set up lights on our house. Due to our roof line and peaks, I’m planning on 4 (linear) runs of LEDs. I bought Rextin ws2811 12mm diameter I am going to space at 2” apart. The longest run will be 74’ or ~432 LEDs. I’m running 12 gauge power and ground wires and 16 gauge data wires. I’ll inject power if needed.
Out of the box my tests ran great. However I’m having a hard time making Christmas patterns in a linear fashion.
Questions below.
I did a factory reset as part of my pattern testing troubleshooting. (Pressing the tiny button on the processor for ~20 seconds.) When going through the setup again, the name is just WLED and not the name of the digi-quad as before. The 4 LED output settings are not there in LED setting anymore either. How can I get back to the default? I’m using WLED+ App.
Do the 4 runs need to be in different data ports or all on one? At this point I want them all to be the same pattern.
What should the LED preferences be for the 4 outputs? If I can get back to the default O can type them in.
What is the best way to make a pattern of 2 red, 2 white repeating? I can get it to work sometimes but then it won’t stick? I’m trying to use Solid Pattern.
red/whie repeating: Fx: Chase 2 Fx color Red BG color White, or FX White Bg Red. Either one. Then adjust the width slider till you have 2/2 repeating.
You want it to chase as 1 long string of all 4 strings or you want each one to do the same thing all starting at the beginning of each one’s run?
If you want 1 long string to chase you don’t have to do anything else.
If you want each to chase separately all starting from just their own string you have to set each one as it’s own segment in the segments settings. If setting more segments then the default segment 0 you will need to save a preset to preserve your segment settings.
Also you don’t need 16 awg for data. 22 or 18 would have been fine.
I would either wire them as a long string connecting the beginning of one to the end of the other
or
I would put them on different pins.
I would not bundle them together and run them all into 1 pin in parallel. You would never be able to get them to do different things. They would all receive the same data and would just operate as if you only had 1 of your lines connected. Doing that would also reduce the data signal as you are splitting it 3 ways.
If you want to freeze an effect you can click the little stop watch icon on the segments. Pic attached.
Is it ok to use output 1 with the gpio of 16? Whe I hooked to that it seemed to flash irregular almost like a board led. If not what pin should I change it to?
LED 1 GPIO 16 should work. Maybe you had a bad connection.
How far is the wire from the controller to the first Pixel? You could also try changing the resistor setting from the default 249Ω to 33Ω. You have to pull the Esp32 off the dig shield and under it there are dip switches to set the resistor value.
The issue could be either a poor ground connection or bad data. With data I would kind of expect there to be some difference between the 249Ω and 33Ω. Are these 5v or 12v pixels?
Is that your furthest run from controller to first pixel out of the 4 runs or are others longer?
Still only 15ft or were you confused with another run?
There is no disadvantage. Generally data lines that are run in the same wire as the power work farther with 33 and wires where data is separate not tight to the ground wire work better with 249. So basically if one does not work try the other. That’s the short answer w/out getting into matching wire impedance and other factors.
Try setting your palette back to default and just set the 2 colors.
