Hey guys, Martin again from SIRS-E I am going to show you guys a quick how-to
setup guide on how I put together this wireless DMX battery powered led module
I previously made a video about this and I show you how it works
and what it does and all that stuff.
For those of you that haven't seen that video, basically what this is, it powers up your
DMX pixel LED strips.
And it receives DMX signal wirelessly, and everything is wireless.
This is all there is to it, no extra wires, and it runs your strips together.
I am going to show you a set of photos.
I am going to kind of explain what I did.
So, here we go guys.
Okay, So, here in the first photo there are the materials and supplies needed to put together
this particular module.
You just need some wire strippers, solder iron, solder, you need a hot glue gun.
Then you need the different parts.
The most important thing is the battery itself; in this case, we're
using a two cell 5400 milliamp lithium polymer battery.
Then, you need your DMX clean-up circuit.
They usually come with a strip, if you buy one of these strips.
then you need an address module.
The one we are using here is a SIRS-E Address Module.
then you need a power regulator, so that you go from your 8.4 volts to your 5 volts needed
to power up the whole system.
A wireless DMX receiver antenna and then you just got your cable and stuff for the address
module and all that.
That is pretty much the tools and materials that you will be needing
for this.
The first thing you want to do is choose a set of connectors that are going to go
from your battery to your regulator.
the regulator is going to be what takes in all the power.
That is going to be the main source of connection.
So, be sure to pick out a connector that you like.
In this case, I am using XD-60's.
I just like them because they are really easy to solder on and they
just work very well.
Alright, the next thing you want to do, once you have all your stuff laid
out and all that.
You are pretty much going to mount everything on the battery itself.
You can do like an external board to mount everything
but in this case I just did it on the battery for sake of keeping everything really nice
and tight.
So, with your hot glue gun, you just want to glue down the regulator and the actual
address module; how you see here in this picture.
It is just the best way, I found out of how everything fits there.
Be sure to use plenty of glue, it is not going to harm anything.
Just keep everything together.
The next thing you want to do is on the output side of the
regulator, the actual regulated side of 5 volts, that is where you will connect the
power for everything.
So you need to supply power to the address module.
You also need to supply power to your DMX clean-up board, which then supplies
power to the actual LED strip.
Then you also want to supply power to your wireless DMX antenna.
In this case, we are using the connector from the power supply and we just solder on
everything on there as you see there.
Once you solder everything together like that on the
output side of the regulator, you then want to use some heat shrink to make sure you insulate
everything and you don't have any shorts or anything going on like that.
The next thing you want to do is solder your DMX signal.
Basically, the address module has an input side and an output side of DMX.
On the output side of DMX, you will actually cut off the XMAR connector, then you'll have
your three wires and then you have your black wire which is
ground.
Then you have two yellow wires, you just have to figure out which one is at a positive
and which one is at a negative, but these go to the clean-up circuit of the strip.
And there's a blue wire which is your ground and there's
a white and there's a green.
You also have your positive and negative, which is red and black, but those actually
you previously solder them on to the output side of the regulator.
Make sure you solder them together, use some heat shrink to insulate everything and use
some zip ties to tidy up everything and keep everything nice and organized.
The next thing you want to do is you're going to get your
wireless DMX receiver antenna and you're actually going to glue it with hot glue to the side
of the battery just how you see here in this picture.
You also want to make sure you position everything down, nice and tight.
You also want to connect your DMX input of the address
module to the actual wireless DMX antenna that you see there.
Make sure you position everything down.
If you need to use hot glue to hold down the cables and all that you could do
so.
Just make sure everything is nice and tight.
There is nothing sticking out in odd ways or
anything like that.
Once you have done that what I did, I got some 3 inch heat shrink covering and I just
slid it over the whole thing, and then I just shrunk it down.
I kind of did it in steps so that I wouldn't get it too hot.
It will just shrink everything down.
Once you shrink everything down, you are going to cover
up some things like the little knobs of the address module, so before it cools down you
want to cut that out so you have access to the knobs there.
You also want to cut out the holes on the side for the wireless DMX power
connector to go on there.
Once you have done that - here's another picture - of the other holes that you want to cut
out.
So, the wireless DMX module, you cut out the hole for the power
and there is a hole that has a little button in there to change frequency and then you
have your power LED and indicator LED that you
also you cut a hole out for.
That is pretty much all there is to it.
It is not very complicated at all.
You pretty much just want to make sure that you follow all the right polarities for everything,
for DMX and power.
And also be sure that the regulator you're using for
the battery depending on how much strip you're going to use for it you're going to want to
make sure that it is going to stand up to the amount of strip you are going to be using.
Other than that, that is pretty much all there is
to it.
Also, in this case I added an extra 5 volt output here so that I could take a wire and
travel all the way to the end of the strip and connect so I could power from both ends
if I am using a long section of strip.
if you do not want a half a cable going all the way down,
you can build another pack just like this, but with just a regulator and a battery.
No need for any DMX stuff.
All it is going to do is power up the other end of the strip so like
that you could have a completely wireless strip that is going to run on its own.
I will show you guys real quick more or less what it looks
like here.
if you just bare with me one second, I could show you guys.
we just connect power, we connect the receiver right there.
Connect our strips on this side.
And there you have it.
Right now I got my Madrix running, and as you
could see it's completely wireless.
and it is a pixel control, style effect that you got going on here.
It is just Madrix.
You run it as if you had cables going to it.
The only thing you have to keep track of here though is going to be your actual battery.
We do not have a low voltage cut-off in this circuit set up.
Although, I will be coming out with a low voltage cut-off which will then protect your
battery because lipos you do not want to drain them
all the way down because that's it you ruin them.
You know $50, $60, $70, $80 battery, you definitely don't want to be ruining those.
Pretty much that is all there is to it.
As you could see it is running really smooth, really nice,
completely wireless.
you could set this up at a party.
Anywhere you would need something wireless with DMX and power and all that.
Pretty much that is all there is to it.
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