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The Final Push

I need to travel out of town this week so I don’t have long left before our official light up party on the 2nd. This weekend I needed to push to get as close to complete as possible. By the end of the weekend I had every light hooked up (around 7,000 of them)  ready for some testing.
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Upgrades, Power Savings & New Bits

As I mentioned in a prior post I’m concerned around my Power draw and don’t want to upgrade my electrical panel this year if I can avoid it. Continue reading “Upgrades, Power Savings & New Bits” →

2017 Simulations

I’ve been working hard to convert my sequences from last years layout (all LED) to incorporate the RGBs I have ordered. I also changed most of the features such as my main spruce tree and small secondary tree. There are many changes in the overall layout where only about 3 channels are the same as last year. I also upgraded from LOR s4 to s5 because the pixel effects are much simpler. I thought I would share a few of the simulations of how the show should look based on the preview in S5. Continue reading “2017 Simulations” →

Time to get at it

Well Halloween is upon us and its time for me to get up on the roof because “winter is coming”, I need to get up on the 2nd storey roof before the snow does. Continue reading “Time to get at it” →

And so it begins…

I have a couple of rules about my Christmas lights.

  1. Before I can bring my car out in the spring I must have all the Christmas lights taken down and put away.
  2. Before I can begin putting up my Christmas lights, my garage must be cleaned up with all the bikes and summer clutter put away and the car parked for the winter.

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