Our Display
This year we plan for our display to have approximately 23,000 lights. Approximately 98% of my display is LED lights. This helps out drastically with electric costs. A typical strand of LED lights uses only .04 Amps, versus a strand of incandescent mini lights using .2 Amps.
I am using a hardware/software combo from Light O Rama. This software allows me to control what the strands of lights do. The lights plug in a box that has 16 pigtails, and each pigtail acts as a channel to control whatever is plugged into it. The boxes can make the lights twinkle, fade up, fade down, shimmer, chase, or flash on and off. There is an endless possibility with the LOR software. If you can imagine it, it can be done. This year I hope to have 80 conventional channels powering my display along with 3 cosmic color ribbons, (CCR) which are 50 channels each. We plan to add PIXEL technology this year. I am anxious for the new additions and hope everyone enjoys our display.
This year to keep from annoying the neighbors with my Christmas music 5 hours a night, 7 nights a week, I am using a low power FM transmitter. This will allow guests to sit in their car and tune their radio to 93.5 FM and listen to the music I am broadcasting. The lights are choreographed to music and this method keeps peace in the neighborhood. It's bad enough they have to see flashing lights for a month. They all are saying how pretty they are right now, let's just hope they still think that in January at the end of the season.
I am using a hardware/software combo from Light O Rama. This software allows me to control what the strands of lights do. The lights plug in a box that has 16 pigtails, and each pigtail acts as a channel to control whatever is plugged into it. The boxes can make the lights twinkle, fade up, fade down, shimmer, chase, or flash on and off. There is an endless possibility with the LOR software. If you can imagine it, it can be done. This year I hope to have 80 conventional channels powering my display along with 3 cosmic color ribbons, (CCR) which are 50 channels each. We plan to add PIXEL technology this year. I am anxious for the new additions and hope everyone enjoys our display.
This year to keep from annoying the neighbors with my Christmas music 5 hours a night, 7 nights a week, I am using a low power FM transmitter. This will allow guests to sit in their car and tune their radio to 93.5 FM and listen to the music I am broadcasting. The lights are choreographed to music and this method keeps peace in the neighborhood. It's bad enough they have to see flashing lights for a month. They all are saying how pretty they are right now, let's just hope they still think that in January at the end of the season.
