Awesome video about your install and the boards! About the power usage being much lower then expected this is because of resistance on the wire or well, voltage drop. Basically if the LEDs aren't getting the full 12v power anymore the amount of current (Amps) they pull also drops. So where at exactly 12v they might draw say 50mA on full white if they now are only getting 10v that might be 30mA. And the more you increase brightness, the more voltage drop happens and thus the lower the drawn amount of current is. This effect is worse on resistor based pixels then regulated pixels too! A regulated pixel will try to and keep a constant output no matter if the incoming voltage is 12v or 10v but a resistor pixel will always start becoming "lower power" because of the static resistor values (which are tuned for 12v). Now this drop can be anywhere so on the wire leading to your LEDs from the controller but also on the wire between the pixels themselves. The only way to alleviate that effect is by adding more copper and thus running injection wires to different parts of the string. I did a livestream here with a little article which shows this very clearly (look at the table on the bottom of the article): quinled.info/should-you-replace-wires-on-led-strip/ . Even changing the cables to 16AWG made a minimal difference but adding a second power wire at the end instantly doubled power usage (and thus also light output). Now it depends on your situation and preference if this is a problem or not. If you're LEDs are behaving like you want them to and light output during normal effects, etc. is exactly the way you want it, no need to change anything. But if you thought your pixels could be more vibrant or when a white section hits they dim or discolor, that's your fix! :)

Great Video, Well explained and will help any newbie.

I install dig quads every day for permanent lights. It’s insane how little power is used. I used to overkill the power supplies and way overdue it. I do power inject at the end of the line or close to it. Nice video and like your board.

Thank you for posting. We just bought a new house so man it's going to be hard to do much before Christmas this year except dumb lights up. October 10th and no snow and not freezing yet in Ft. SASK Alberta. I can't wait to get my dig quad up and I'm going to get quindig 's Octo when it comes in

I run an spare conductor to inject power every 150 LEDs. To me it keeps color consistent and reduces over heating. My wires I run for power are 16ga

Very cool I am Beginner

the dig-quad doesn't need a 5v input for the controller. You look to have v3. the circuitry on the board reduced to 5v for the top hat. Check DR ZZZZ he has a video confirming the same thing on the new boards. You can also do power injection without putting boxes all over. You just run additional power in track for injection from that same wire everyone 150 12v LEDs, but I inject on both ends, and in the middle regardless, if over 30ft.

This is my first build and install. How do you adjust the percentage on your lights when you talk about it on the first part of the video. Can you please explain.

Hey man, I need to build a single box like you have throughout the home. Will you please do me a huge favor, and share links to all the items you used to build out the box (Box, Risers, Fans, Relay, etc) and links to uploaded images of the layout/schematic you used!?

You can add a data amplifier and inject power and go longer runs so you don't need boxes all over.

Interesting, mine needed a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity - luckily, I was able harness this from a recent lightning storm... channeled a strike into the flux capacitor - boom! I'm all set

Great video. I want to try something smaller. Where did you find the channel for the leds?

Do you have a wiring diagram of how to hook everything up and what wire goes to what and where from?

What are those 4 channel looking things that look like relays towards the top

What brand is everything and is your box plugged into a regular outlet?

I really like the white standoffs that you have in your controll boxes. I like how they screw into the backboard and your dig-quads and other electonics screw into them. Where did you get those?

Where did you buy the fans from? Link please 🙏

What is with the 32 feet limit?

Why a separate 5v power supply when quad can handle up to 24v