Ashley Garrett from New Life Church in Springfield, MO brings us these awesome squares.
From Ashley: We filled our back stage wall with 50 LED lit coroplast squares. Every 2 squares were lit with one 16′ LED strip that we stuck in J channel. We found that spending a bit more helped greatly in the look of each square. We sandwiched the J channel between one white coroplast and one semi-transparent one. We tried using small screws, but that was tedious, so we just used hot glue and it held really well.
Each square was 2×2. We built a frame first with 2x4s as the base and 1x2s in front to mount squares on and painted it black. This way, our wall would only have 9 holes in it from the 2x4s instead of 100 holes or more from the squares themselves.
Each set of 2 sqares was wired with 5 wire with small wire nuts and then run to one of 4 DMX decoders. We had a power supply for each of these that we used basic lamp cording to extend the reach. I covered the LED strips and wires with black electrical tape and you can’t see it at all from the auditorium.
We spent about $1500 in total for everything for this design. The frame is something we can use in the future for easier installment of new designs.
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