If anyone is interested, I hacked this together last night. Its a small box with a bunch of hardware switches that sequntialy distribute power to a huge array of 2300 APA102 LEDs. Each switch allows the +5V line to activate for 2 power taps. Each tap powers about 200-300 LEDs. This solved the problem of random pixel light up that I posted about a few days ago. My power supply would cut out because a huge amount of random pixels would go white and drain to much power. This no longer occurs :)There are also Caps everywhere but this was the main problem solver. I never run the LEDs to their full power as I’m using a bunch of portable power packs. Here it is in action https://www.instagram.com/p/-_T2viRDdD/
Glad to hear everything was sorted out. Thank you for sharing what you ran into, and your solution! Suit looks fabulous.
@marmil Cheers mate! yep, love it when it all comes together!
I’m glad you solved your problem, but I’m a bit confused by this. Is it that you were seeing too much voltage drop in a more serial power distribution, and this is more parallel?
Love the suit. Very similar to my ongoing project (I can’t seem to get any good video of it though). I’ve built mine so the panels can be placed over any clothing and removed for separate cleaning/storage. Are yours going to be permanently mounted to the fabric?
You also have far more LEDs than I do, and more dense distribution. I only have 720 total at 30/meter.
@allanGEE hey mate, yep this version of the suit(Version 3) the panels are attached to a leotard with velcro. My previous version(v2) was directly attached to a flight suit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BAZAh-3rZM and i cant wash it! Glad to meet a fellow LED suite-er-ere haha! I have been developing this idea for a few years each time there are tons more LEDs.
@allanGEE oh and with getting good video, Use fast frame rate 50+ fps works great. Place a small glowing object next to the suit before you start recording and FIX the focus onto it! I have had MANY issues getting good video and images