In order to understand how the Shooting Star or Fireworks effects work we have designed a guide for installing fibers from ceiling to the LED fiber optic shooting star unit. Like any animation or pixel picture, the more points you have the better the picture looks. If you use the Guide to pick the numbers of fiber points per "inch" the you can calculate the number of fibers to the modules you will need.So lets take a simple 3 ft Shooting star or comet.
Spacing Guide:
So to calculate the number of fibers in a 3 ft shooting star with a fiber placed every 1/8" 96 p x 3 ft = 288 Fiber points.
The Fiber Optic LED unit has 64 LEDs that can hold 20 .75mm fibers. If you put 5 fibers per LED you would only need 1 Unit and would give it a "Train look" to the shooting star.
*** The average and least expensive way to do it is 1 fiber every 1" for a total of 64 points per ft. or 5 ft of effect. This would simulate a comet because if you think about it, when you look at a comet or shooting star in the sky, the size you really see in the sky in no more then a few inches to a few feet of action.
This example shows a small Fireworks explosion and how to attach the fibers from endpoint to led unit.
Notice how we started from the center with white fibers that were inserted in the 1st LED. Then we placed the next fibers a little further out with colored LED's. You should also not that depending on what mode you have the FiberFX in, it will give you the illusion of a fade out explosion or a quick blast look.
The best cable to use for this unit is the 8 or 12 strand endglow cable because it makes it easier to track what cable goes where. When installing the Fibers in the board or ceiling, you will need to shine a flashlight or some sort of light source at the visual end, and see what fiber lights up at the LED end.