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BigDPS
Beta Testers Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 471 |
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Topic: It's that time again... Posted: 24 Aug 2010 at 10:16am |
Well the wife and I have begun the annual summer Christmas light show inventory habit.
We began by separating the mega tree lights in their proper packet of lights, properly wrapped the extension cords, put the proper lights in the proper totes, taking notes on what was damaged and what needs to be replaced. You know it's a good time when the wife will say she'll have a beer with me! Or it's the fact that its 90 plus degrees out in the sun. Even the crickets refuse to make noise due to the hot weather. Neighbors looks at us with weird looks on their face...maybe it's because of me whistling the tune of White Christmas as we do all this work. Has anybody else started to do their display work yet or is it too soon? |
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deweycooter
Development Joined: 14 Oct 2007 Location: League City, TX Online Status: Offline Posts: 674 |
Quote Reply Posted: 24 Aug 2010 at 2:08pm |
How are you gonna get Halloween stuff done if you're starting on Christmas already?!
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BigDPS
Beta Testers Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 471 |
Quote Reply Posted: 24 Aug 2010 at 5:05pm |
I don't do Halloween with the lights and stuff. We have very few people coming (none in the past 5 years!!!). I like to concentrate all my time on the Christmas one instead.
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onewish1
Newbie Joined: 09 Sep 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 34 |
Quote Reply Posted: 24 Aug 2010 at 6:54pm |
we started picking up supplies for Halloween... can't wait to get started
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LightChristmas
Beta Testers Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Location: Equality, IL Online Status: Offline Posts: 993 |
Quote Reply Posted: 24 Aug 2010 at 7:40pm |
Slacker! Have 80% of the sequencing done, with the remainder pending additional light and controller moola. Going "blueless" this year as the darned things fade in no time, and the price vs quality vs safety vs on-time delivery of LEDs is dubious at best.
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BigDPS
Beta Testers Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 471 |
Quote Reply Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 1:42pm |
This year (because of my wife) we have added purple lights. She says it will make the display a lot purdier...
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LightChristmas
Beta Testers Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Location: Equality, IL Online Status: Offline Posts: 993 |
Quote Reply Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 2:35pm |
Just a forewarning, DPS. The purples tend to look like red at a distance, so space accordingly. Had to restring my megas in the 11th hour last year because of that.
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BigDPS
Beta Testers Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 471 |
Quote Reply Posted: 31 Aug 2010 at 4:53pm |
Great.....I took blue out to replace with purple. Had I known that, I would've kept blue and get rid of red.
Today, at the feels like 104 degrees with humidity mark, my wife and I were completing the wrapping of the mini arches. To top it all ,we had christmas music streaming on the computer. Does anybody else listen to Christmas music at THIS time of the year while working on their display? I hope I'm (we're) not the only ones..... |
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LightChristmas
Beta Testers Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Location: Equality, IL Online Status: Offline Posts: 993 |
Quote Reply Posted: 01 Sep 2010 at 12:55pm |
If you keep the reds away from the purples, all will be fine. My initial config was Red, Green, Blue, White, Purple - with the arrangement repeating. As you can see, on the second iteration, red is next to purple. What I ended up doing was moving the purple in between green and blue - and avoided lighting up the reds any time the purple was on.
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BigDPS
Beta Testers Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 471 |
Quote Reply Posted: 02 Sep 2010 at 11:50am |
I can't recall my colors but I think they are purple, green, yellow and red.
I suppose I can do purple green red yellow. |
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