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you may start to overload the header, power-wise
As far as lighting, i suspect you may see the LEDs repeating the effect. It can only control 90 different LEDs so i don't know what the ones past 90 will do. maybe repeat what number 90 does? or restart from 1?
Either way you don't have individual control.
Still beware of current load. you may see channel shutdowns with some colors like white.
With most LED controllers, it's a simple addressing limit and nothing more. The LEDs beyond the limit usually just match the highest address (in this case, LED #90). If you're just using the same color on all LEDs, you'd never even know you went beyond the limit.
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you may want to dim them a bit to avoid burning up the LEDs with time.
I don't know if the Octo has the same protection but on Farbwerk, if a channel gets overloaded, it shuts down and Aquasuite tells you the channel has been cut off to protect the controller. it restarts when you reboot the computer.
If the Octo can protect itself and reset after a reboot (like the Farbwerk360), then that is probably the worst that would happen. If you blow up the Octo, they would be within their rights to not honor any warranty. You did not mention where the brightness level is set. You are only over by 18 LEDs. If each one is pulling 33ma, that's about 600ma over the limit. If you have the brightness dialed back, you are probably OK. If you set them to 100% brightness, you may pop the RGBpx output.
You could splice a DC amp meter into the Molex power chain and measure the total current flowing through the +5VDC conductor. Since most of that current is going to the LEDs, it all has to flow through the teeny little contracts in the RGBpx connector. Assuming the Octo does not trip first, I suspect the RGBpx cable and /or connector would be the next point of failure. I would carefully feel the molex power cable and the RGBpx cable plugged into the Octo to make sure they are not getting too hot.
you don't have to use up all channels
And the Farbwerk also allows you to stack effects to play with transparency.. like having a white background, and maybe adding other effects on top of it. The octo only does one opaque effect at a time.
For what it's worth the farbwerk despite being just a lighting controller, adds some software sensor slots like the Octo, but even a nerd should not run out that soon !
So yea, if you never plan on using anything else than static light, it's probably not worth it. for the rest, definitely consider a FW360
you can have several effects playing at the same time on the same channel.
Like, imagine your white lights, and adding on top of that some starlight effect where leds will blink blue at random every now and then.. or whatever. you can mix and match effects to your liking.
it's like playing with layers on photoshop. you have background effects and you can add on top of that to make more complex effects.
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