Just got an order in at Dr Zzzs at 9:30ET no problem. Thanks you for the incredible work on this project! This will be my first Dig- system and I’m going to attempt it in a marine application. 🤞
Hi there, I am sorry to trouble you, but I've been looking over yours and indeed various led videos trying to figure something out, and I wondered if I could ask your opinion for a moment as I am having some difficulty. I am building myself an acrylic top desk and I am going to edge light it. I am trying to choose an LED type, but there is a particular look I want and on a HDR TV they all look real nice and real similar. Hence, the problem. The type of light I am looking for is more filament/nixie look to it on the reds, ambers, 1800K colour temps if such a thing can be applied from light bulbs I use to led tech, that deep less neon more industrial kind of glow. I've been looking at various types and have kind of settled on WS2811, but I wondered if you had an opinion as frankly I know little and am judging by what I see on screen as I don't have samples to look at in real life. Many thanks for your time.
Yeah colors can be really hard, most digital LEDs however are the same, especially the ones that use an internal chip since those are all from the same places. If you want to stick with digital and want amber and gold orange take a look at sk6812 WWA (I have a video about it). For pure nice colors take a look at ws2811 "bright" from BTF. Since it uses an external ws2811 chip they can use different, beter quality RGB LED packages and I like them a whole lot more! Hopefully it helps! Take a look at my comparison video too quinled.info/2019/06/03/what-digital-5v-12v-rgbw-led-strip-to-buy/
Seriously dude. Thank you for all the work you've put into this hobby. You've made a lot of professional grade lighting setups significantly more accessible for a lot more people. It's definitely helping push the space to innovate and will hopefully continue to encourage LED manufacturers to provide new and improved diodes for us to play with.
I got my Dig-Octa systems from Allnet a few days ago. Expensive shipping but it arrived very fast to the USA. I'm exceptionally happy with the whole system. I thought the dig-quad was perfect, but I didn't know what I was missing. These things are awesome. Such easy power distribution, smart layout, and high capacity for both number of LED's and amp handling. It's easy to tell that you spent considerable brain power on how to build these smartly. I can't believe they are so affordable.
Thnx for the very kind words! Yeah it took me a full year to get it all done and actually produced but I certainly think the end result is worth it too so your words mean a lot to me! :)
I got my Dig-Octa and Powerboard-7HC a few days ago and I was so excited I made an UNBOXING video and a couple other powering up and set up videos. This system is AMAZING!! I got mine from DrZZs in 2 weeks, WAY faster than overseas!
@@IntermitTech yeah I can be a little rough sometimes. Haha. I am for sure a Pixel head, and a gear head too. Even my Mustang runs WLED and lights! The tech is amazing to me, processing in my brain turning 1 Pixel on half brightness and purple for a nano second and then switching to another color at full brightness a thousand Pixels down a string meanwhile their brother and sister Pixels are doing their own independent colors 20 times A second…. Yeah, I love it for sure!
I've been anticipating, anxiously awaiting these. I'm so excited. Thank you Quindor for another great set of products. Ordering mine right now. Cheers!!
Just ordered my Dig-Octa. It was worth the wait. I am going to go back through all the video's. I will try and send a video when I get it all set up and running.
i have 4 did quads from the first version through to the one before the latest, all working all going strong. Time to play with something new again i think
I would really like you to give more attention in a video about the possibilities and limitations of this board, I have two but I don't know what the limitation or maximum load is.
Hey buddy! Great work done here. Would Love to see some of these presoldered for 3pin argb pc fans for pc rgb enthusiasts ;). Maybe something for the future?
DrZZs store... Sorry is truly substandard for building your brand, by far. Your product is excellent and to be mismananged is crippling your product and ruining all your hard work in what is an excellent product.
Thanks you so much for your vidéos I consider buying this for a DMX setup with 8 led strip adressable !! But there is a basic thing I can't undestand (I'm a beginner in building my own system) : How to use the ethernet port of the octa brainboard for artnet ? I saw on your website it's possible but I could find how. How do I find the octa system in touchdesigner or resolume and directly send information to it ? Is there a way to control or edit the number of universe for each port ? Or does the octasystem has a predefined number of channels ?
I'm designing an outdoor holiday/accent lighting rig for my house, incorporating a Dig-Octa system (brainboard & 7HC powerboard), and I have a question: I'm planning on using BTF's WS2815 30/m strips, but the wiring has me slightly puzzled... Does the backup data line in the strips get connected to a second (or in my case, a third or fourth) data channel on the Brainboard, or does it get grounded, as I have seen other ESP32 users do? FWIW, I'm going to be running around 1,900 pixels' worth of WS2815 strips, broken up into at least four separate zones for control - I'm assuming the 600 pixel-per-channel limit is still the way to go. It should be, err, interesting...
Well even if so, the tax would still apply. Local import fee here is only 5 euro per package but I know some other countries rip you off. We are going to look into this (again) in 2023.
I'm not getting 5v on the relay trigger pin when I use GPIO 33 in WLED. Inverted or not, power on or not. I'm powered on USB right now, should this work?
Hi how are things going ok , i have an issue with a quad , data gpio 16 will not turn on the lights , so i tried data 3 , 1 and 4 there working but cannot get gpio 16 to work , have checked the fuses there all good , any ideas what it could be ? .
Love the boards, especially the *huge* wire to board screw terminal connectors. Anyone know the manufacturer and part number? Want to use something similar on my PCB hot plate for SMD rework, concerned soldered wires will melt. Cheers!
Did you check the associated articles on the website? Quinled.info -> digital - > Dig-Octa - > your powerboard. But all powerboards will fit 16AWG with ferrule with ease, power-5 up to 14AWG, power-7 up to 12AWG and using the double up feature up to 8AWG output. Brainboard is a bit more limited but the generic 18AWG or smaller should fit fine, with ferrule too.
Hi there, I hope you are well, Where is the best place for me to ask you a question? I don't have social media or discord accounts and when I asked a question on here the other day it was deleted, It's a relatively brief question about the digi quads that I want to buy. Many thanks.
@@IntermitTech Thank you for getting back to me, I really appreciate it, especially given how busy you are with the exciting new launch. I will open a discord account, I try to usually stay away from social media, TH-cam is pretty much all I do. Thank you again. I hope the launch goes really well 👍🏻
Hey thanks for letting us know , the only thing i cannot understand is there are 3 power terminals on the power boards why 3 ? will 1 positive and one negative each side power all up or not ?
I recommend to watch the videos, it's even in this one! It will power up with one set of cables but then you'll be limited to max 20Amps with one set, max 40Amps with 2 sets and max 50Amps with all 3! Also make sure to use proper size cables!
Gearing up to do my first show this year. When I say show, I mean simply simply a roof line for xmas. But, I have plans to expand as I learn more. I've done all my research on the Dig-Quad. Is the Octa Overkill or will it confuse me in anyway, or is it just a much more capable setup than the Quad? I ask because I haven't seen any quads go up in availability but the Octa is still available as of this morning.
It's not overkill if you have a setup that requires more than 4 sets of lights. Look at it as getting two quads but you don't have to deal with synchronizing them.
Depends on your projected current draw, but in general there's no down side to using the larger wire. Me, I'd go 10ga. but I tend to overbuild stuff. (OTOH, it rarely if ever fails!)
@@IntermitTech I appreciate your reply. My apologies. I left out alot of info you may need. They are sk6812 rgbw strips at 144 led/m at 43.2w/m. The entire strip is 2m. The power consumption was listed on btf lighting's aliexpress listing. To me it sounds high, seeing as it has dedicated whites. I wanted to do a 2m run as ambient lighting on a wall in my living room, I'm shooting for at least 7 ft of wire run. I can possibly do 3-4ft and place the power supply on my mantle that was left behind from a blocked off fire place if that is more feasible.
It'll be a little bit, first we need to finish up this shipment and then we'll look into another in a week or 2. If you need it quicker directly from WorldWide would be the best way probably.
There is an article already! quinled.info/quinled-dig-octa-relay-output-standby-power/ but basically it allows you to have 2 power supplies like a phone charger using USB-C and a big 12v power supply for your LEDs connected at the same time. Then using a relay you can automatically turn on/off the big power supply to save (lots) of power when the LEDs are off, using the USB-C one as a standby power supply consuming 1w or 2w only.
@@IntermitTech Is there a pin out to sync music to lights? th-cam.com/video/oMbTScnM7Uk/w-d-xo.html Already ordered 2 brainboards and power board 7. Do i need a uno to run music syn ?
There is not for the Dig-Octa no. You can use a dig2go, Dig-Uno or Dig-Quad. The dig2go comes with a digital microphone included, the Dig-Uno and Dig-Quad can have an analog one or a digital one connected. For the Dig-Uno and Dig-Quad you can also get the AE+ version which has an option to get one with an integrated digital microphone.
@@IntermitTech Thank you for swift reply. Need to head to store again and order. Hopefully make video in the future on how to incorporate this with the octa 8. Much appreciated
@@IntermitTech thanks again for information. Ordered the AE + with microphone. Had to pay shipping again. If I knew this information before would have bought them all at same time. Eagerly waiting for my 16 data ports soon to be music synced with ESP-32 AE+. You thought of everything. Amazing job
What shipping did you select? The boards are also quite heavy and bigger then the previous boards so especially if you for instance add a 7HC it's going to add up in shipping costs quickly. :( We're going to look into seeing if we can setup more local distribution in 2023 but I'm not sure it'll really become much cheaper.
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Currently the DrZZs store is experiencing some issues, we're hoping to get it back up shortly!
I was able to slowly get an order in at 1PM ET, so its coming back around. Good luck everyone!
Just got an order in at Dr Zzzs at 9:30ET no problem. Thanks you for the incredible work on this project! This will be my first Dig- system and I’m going to attempt it in a marine application. 🤞
Oh, that sounds interesting! What are you planning?
Hi there, I am sorry to trouble you, but I've been looking over yours and indeed various led videos trying to figure something out, and I wondered if I could ask your opinion for a moment as I am having some difficulty.
I am building myself an acrylic top desk and I am going to edge light it. I am trying to choose an LED type, but there is a particular look I want and on a HDR TV they all look real nice and real similar. Hence, the problem.
The type of light I am looking for is more filament/nixie look to it on the reds, ambers, 1800K colour temps if such a thing can be applied from light bulbs I use to led tech, that deep less neon more industrial kind of glow. I've been looking at various types and have kind of settled on WS2811, but I wondered if you had an opinion as frankly I know little and am judging by what I see on screen as I don't have samples to look at in real life. Many thanks for your time.
Yeah colors can be really hard, most digital LEDs however are the same, especially the ones that use an internal chip since those are all from the same places. If you want to stick with digital and want amber and gold orange take a look at sk6812 WWA (I have a video about it). For pure nice colors take a look at ws2811 "bright" from BTF. Since it uses an external ws2811 chip they can use different, beter quality RGB LED packages and I like them a whole lot more!
Hopefully it helps! Take a look at my comparison video too quinled.info/2019/06/03/what-digital-5v-12v-rgbw-led-strip-to-buy/
Seriously dude. Thank you for all the work you've put into this hobby. You've made a lot of professional grade lighting setups significantly more accessible for a lot more people. It's definitely helping push the space to innovate and will hopefully continue to encourage LED manufacturers to provide new and improved diodes for us to play with.
That is so kind, thank you very much, it's a lot of work sometimes but I do love it! :D
Great product just got my board and building out my box. Can't wait for my pixels to come !!!
I got my Dig-Octa systems from Allnet a few days ago. Expensive shipping but it arrived very fast to the USA. I'm exceptionally happy with the whole system. I thought the dig-quad was perfect, but I didn't know what I was missing. These things are awesome. Such easy power distribution, smart layout, and high capacity for both number of LED's and amp handling. It's easy to tell that you spent considerable brain power on how to build these smartly. I can't believe they are so affordable.
Thnx for the very kind words! Yeah it took me a full year to get it all done and actually produced but I certainly think the end result is worth it too so your words mean a lot to me! :)
Awesome! I really like the quality products you create! Thanks for all you do for our community!
Awesome to hear, thank you!
Just got mine in today. Already assembled it and this thing is a beast. You can really feel the quality.
Thnx, love hearing that!
I got my Dig-Octa and Powerboard-7HC a few days ago and I was so excited I made an UNBOXING video and a couple other powering up and set up videos. This system is AMAZING!! I got mine from DrZZs in 2 weeks, WAY faster than overseas!
I just found them and watched them all, awesome to see you so excited about them! But man, stop banging those boxes around 🤣🤣
@@IntermitTech yeah I can be a little rough sometimes. Haha. I am for sure a Pixel head, and a gear head too. Even my Mustang runs WLED and lights! The tech is amazing to me, processing in my brain turning 1 Pixel on half brightness and purple for a nano second and then switching to another color at full brightness a thousand Pixels down a string meanwhile their brother and sister Pixels are doing their own independent colors 20 times A second…. Yeah, I love it for sure!
I've been anticipating, anxiously awaiting these. I'm so excited. Thank you Quindor for another great set of products. Ordering mine right now. Cheers!!
That's awesome, thank you! :D
@@IntermitTech you’re welcome Quindor. I got a power 7HC and 2 of the 32L brainboards. Let the fun continue….unto the next level!!!
The intro music always gets me psyched! It gets an immediate 👍 from me. Keep up the great work brother 👍 👊💪
Picked up one on each store to kick off reducing my board counts! Thank you so much for this system!
Awesome, thank you very much!
I'm so glad to see these done!! I am ordering some now! I already have a few unos and a quad. Thanks, again!
Just ordered my Dig-Octa. It was worth the wait. I am going to go back through all the video's. I will try and send a video when I get it all set up and running.
Awesome, would love to see!
Well done and congratulations on taking this from an idea to reality.
Thnx, appreciate it!
Man you are a genius! This is so awesome!
i have 4 did quads from the first version through to the one before the latest, all working all going strong.
Time to play with something new again i think
Purchased!
Thank you so much!
No, thank you for making such a high quality, easy to use product!
WOW! Great equipment!
Pretty hosed currently. I'd recommend waiting to try until after I'm able to get one. ; )
Making my list ... it is order time :)
Very kind, thank you! :)
I would really like you to give more attention in a video about the possibilities and limitations of this board, I have two but I don't know what the limitation or maximum load is.
Check out all the introduction videos and articles, it should all be in there? What exactly are you missing?
Hi! Are COB led strips compatible? with brain board?
Awesome!
Nice!
Hey buddy! Great work done here. Would Love to see some of these presoldered for 3pin argb pc fans for pc rgb enthusiasts ;). Maybe something for the future?
Maybe maybe. ;)
DrZZs store... Sorry is truly substandard for building your brand, by far. Your product is excellent and to be mismananged is crippling your product and ruining all your hard work in what is an excellent product.
Thanks you so much for your vidéos I consider buying this for a DMX setup with 8 led strip adressable !! But there is a basic thing I can't undestand (I'm a beginner in building my own system) : How to use the ethernet port of the octa brainboard for artnet ? I saw on your website it's possible but I could find how. How do I find the octa system in touchdesigner or resolume and directly send information to it ? Is there a way to control or edit the number of universe for each port ? Or does the octasystem has a predefined number of channels ?
Great video, what effect would you recommend if we want to cycle through all solid colors in a seamless manner (ie fade from color to color)
I'm designing an outdoor holiday/accent lighting rig for my house, incorporating a Dig-Octa system (brainboard & 7HC powerboard), and I have a question: I'm planning on using BTF's WS2815 30/m strips, but the wiring has me slightly puzzled... Does the backup data line in the strips get connected to a second (or in my case, a third or fourth) data channel on the Brainboard, or does it get grounded, as I have seen other ESP32 users do? FWIW, I'm going to be running around 1,900 pixels' worth of WS2815 strips, broken up into at least four separate zones for control - I'm assuming the 600 pixel-per-channel limit is still the way to go. It should be, err, interesting...
All hail the lord of light
I would like to know when this can be ordered within Europe. and how many ws2811 bulps can i control with one powerbord with two brainbords.
You are doing great work but you should set up a warehouse in Europe. Customs from China are doubling the final price.
Well even if so, the tax would still apply. Local import fee here is only 5 euro per package but I know some other countries rip you off. We are going to look into this (again) in 2023.
I want to run 13 4M runs of 60/m strips. How many of each board (power/brain) will I need? Will i have to inject power to each run as well?
I'm not getting 5v on the relay trigger pin when I use GPIO 33 in WLED. Inverted or not, power on or not. I'm powered on USB right now, should this work?
Hi how are things going ok , i have an issue with a quad , data gpio 16 will not turn on the lights , so i tried data 3 , 1 and 4 there working but cannot get gpio 16 to work , have checked the fuses there all good , any ideas what it could be ? .
Love the boards, especially the *huge* wire to board screw terminal connectors. Anyone know the manufacturer and part number? Want to use something similar on my PCB hot plate for SMD rework, concerned soldered wires will melt. Cheers!
Which ones? On the normal powerboards or the HC version?
What terminal sizes for the brain board and power board? The 16-22 awg terminals are still too big.
Did you check the associated articles on the website? Quinled.info -> digital - > Dig-Octa - > your powerboard.
But all powerboards will fit 16AWG with ferrule with ease, power-5 up to 14AWG, power-7 up to 12AWG and using the double up feature up to 8AWG output.
Brainboard is a bit more limited but the generic 18AWG or smaller should fit fine, with ferrule too.
Hi there, I hope you are well,
Where is the best place for me to ask you a question? I don't have social media or discord accounts and when I asked a question on here the other day it was deleted,
It's a relatively brief question about the digi quads that I want to buy.
Many thanks.
Discord generally really is the best, maybe you could make an account? Mail is possible but expect at least a month delay in answers.
@@IntermitTech
Thank you for getting back to me, I really appreciate it, especially given how busy you are with the exciting new launch.
I will open a discord account, I try to usually stay away from social media, TH-cam is pretty much all I do.
Thank you again. I hope the launch goes really well 👍🏻
Hey thanks for letting us know , the only thing i cannot understand is there are 3 power terminals on the power boards why 3 ? will 1 positive and one negative each side power all up or not ?
I recommend to watch the videos, it's even in this one! It will power up with one set of cables but then you'll be limited to max 20Amps with one set, max 40Amps with 2 sets and max 50Amps with all 3! Also make sure to use proper size cables!
@@IntermitTech AH now i get it thanks for getting back to me on this , just ordered 2 power boards 2 brains , glad there now on sale .
Gearing up to do my first show this year. When I say show, I mean simply simply a roof line for xmas. But, I have plans to expand as I learn more. I've done all my research on the Dig-Quad. Is the Octa Overkill or will it confuse me in anyway, or is it just a much more capable setup than the Quad? I ask because I haven't seen any quads go up in availability but the Octa is still available as of this morning.
It's not overkill if you have a setup that requires more than 4 sets of lights. Look at it as getting two quads but you don't have to deal with synchronizing them.
@@BR25x I wish I realized that before it sold out :(
Did the recommend max distance to first led change? What is the max distance recommend before a data booster should be needed? Thanks.
Nope still about the same, I'd say try to keep it within 10m or 32ft beyond that it gets really sketchy but data-boosters can help in some situations.
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Hi hope your doing well , general question , is 14awg fine from the power supply to the controller or should i go 12awg not too sure if honest .
Depends on your projected current draw, but in general there's no down side to using the larger wire. Me, I'd go 10ga. but I tend to overbuild stuff. (OTOH, it rarely if ever fails!)
Quindor I have a brain board but if I get other one and sack it on top of the other one do I need 2 internet wires to make it work with xlights
Yes they would both be treated as an individual board. So their own cable, IP and configuration in that sense.
@@IntermitTech thank you quindor
I just purchased 2m of sk6812 led strip at 43.2 w/m. If I'm running the full length of those, what gauge wire should I utilize?
Where did that number come from? What strip is it exactly?
@@IntermitTech I appreciate your reply. My apologies. I left out alot of info you may need. They are sk6812 rgbw strips at 144 led/m at 43.2w/m. The entire strip is 2m. The power consumption was listed on btf lighting's aliexpress listing. To me it sounds high, seeing as it has dedicated whites. I wanted to do a 2m run as ambient lighting on a wall in my living room, I'm shooting for at least 7 ft of wire run. I can possibly do 3-4ft and place the power supply on my mantle that was left behind from a blocked off fire place if that is more feasible.
Sold out in drzz store...any idea when they will be available again?
It'll be a little bit, first we need to finish up this shipment and then we'll look into another in a week or 2. If you need it quicker directly from WorldWide would be the best way probably.
@@IntermitTech well dang it only took 3 days!!!
what is the 5v relay trigger is for ? how does it work. can please explain and create a video for connection
There is an article already! quinled.info/quinled-dig-octa-relay-output-standby-power/ but basically it allows you to have 2 power supplies like a phone charger using USB-C and a big 12v power supply for your LEDs connected at the same time. Then using a relay you can automatically turn on/off the big power supply to save (lots) of power when the LEDs are off, using the USB-C one as a standby power supply consuming 1w or 2w only.
@@IntermitTech Is there a pin out to sync music to lights? th-cam.com/video/oMbTScnM7Uk/w-d-xo.html
Already ordered 2 brainboards and power board 7. Do i need a uno to run music syn ?
There is not for the Dig-Octa no. You can use a dig2go, Dig-Uno or Dig-Quad. The dig2go comes with a digital microphone included, the Dig-Uno and Dig-Quad can have an analog one or a digital one connected. For the Dig-Uno and Dig-Quad you can also get the AE+ version which has an option to get one with an integrated digital microphone.
@@IntermitTech Thank you for swift reply.
Need to head to store again and order. Hopefully make video in the future on how to incorporate this with the octa 8. Much appreciated
@@IntermitTech thanks again for information.
Ordered the AE + with microphone. Had to pay shipping again. If I knew this information before would have bought them all at same time.
Eagerly waiting for my 16 data ports soon to be music synced with ESP-32 AE+.
You thought of everything. Amazing job
any idea when dig octa will start shipping if we have ordered from Dr zzz
Very soon! They are still on the way to him but should be there in a few days and he will then immediately start distributing them as ordered!
@@IntermitTech thanks for quick response
Hi, are this new boards are compatible to used with xLights? Please advise. Thank you.
Absolutely either running WLED or ESPixelstick firmware!
@@IntermitTech Perfect, the best of the two worlds. Thank you.
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To sync music to lights add this. th-cam.com/users/liveBRDc4eD7QAc?feature=share
$107.10 for shipping? Lost me there...
What shipping did you select? The boards are also quite heavy and bigger then the previous boards so especially if you for instance add a 7HC it's going to add up in shipping costs quickly. :( We're going to look into seeing if we can setup more local distribution in 2023 but I'm not sure it'll really become much cheaper.
gah! out of stock already :(
nevermind. sounds like it will be a week or so
Still problem with the site 😕
Yeah we kind of killed it, it's slowly coming back online now!
$60 for shipping? Geez
Yeah it can be rough, the boards are a bit big and certainly heavy so that adds up quickly. :(
I think this crashed dr.zzzs site. I tried to go there just now and the website wouldn't load
Worked for me about 30 minutes ago. Try again!
Sadly dr.zzzs site is making his own little profit more than buying from china so be aware on that .