Entrance Hall

A 30-foot LED tunnel woven through sheet metal and MDF does not have a replacement part number. The original entrance at Temple Denver was a rush job that slowly died. It was never meant to be serviced. Patching a failing rig is a waste of time, so I gutted the entire run down to the raw pixel strips.

Mid-week gave me a two-day window while the club was closed. Getting the walls open was a pain. I found hidden shims and double-sided tape holding the 3/4-inch panels together. My first plan was to pull the aluminum extrusions, but construction adhesive held them fast. I left the tracks in place and removed the old solder to get clean copper. I wired the data chain fresh and rebuilt the power distribution from the ground up. I balanced the load across two 24-volt power supplies above the ceiling. I tied the DC negative lines together to keep the data stable.

If I had built the hallway from scratch, I would have made proper access panels. Instead, I routed the new wires in a repeatable pattern and drove actual screws into the MDF so the walls could be opened later. The rebuilt rig lit the full run perfectly, surviving a heavy enclosure that was originally glued shut.