When do you turn on your display?
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Topic: When do you turn on your display?
Posted By: BigDPS
Subject: When do you turn on your display?
Date Posted: 28 Oct 2009 at 5:07pm
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With the amount of time and money that we put in our displays, what is the ideal time to turn on the display? I'm not talking about the time as in hours but which date? I'm thinking of having mine turned on around the 15th of November or is that too early? I'm curious to hear (read) what you guys think is the best time. ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/"> 
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Posted By: Jonathan
Date Posted: 28 Oct 2009 at 5:14pm
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I go live Thanksgiving night. Or at least, that's the plan. ------------- ~Jonathan |
Posted By: Pony_God
Date Posted: 28 Oct 2009 at 5:51pm
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Thanksgiving here as well. ------------- Fine. You're so smart you rig up the lights. http://www.frappr.com/dlight - D-Light users Unite! 
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Posted By: bdkeen
Date Posted: 28 Oct 2009 at 5:56pm
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Going live here too on Thanksgiving night and running until 3 Jan.
Picked Thanksgiving night for the start date because there are several towns around the area that traditionaly turn on their Christmas lights that evening. Also the arrival of Santa Claus at the climax of most Thanksgiving Day parades marks the start of the Christmas season. ------------- 
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Posted By: Pony_God
Date Posted: 28 Oct 2009 at 6:01pm
I thought the Christmas season started when Lowes got thier stuff in... ------------- Fine. You're so smart you rig up the lights. http://www.frappr.com/dlight - D-Light users Unite!
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Posted By: bdkeen
Date Posted: 28 Oct 2009 at 6:08pm
I hear Christmas music all year round here! I think the season started when I got my first controller and hasn't yet ended  . Lowes and Home Depot started the season about 3 weeks ago here, both on the same day. I already bought 2 Walmarts out of the few 5mm concave green LEDs they had so I could rebuld the minitrees in LED  -------------
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Posted By: JohnnyL
Date Posted: 28 Oct 2009 at 7:04pm
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we go "Live" on Black Friday every year. with a little "test run" on Thanksgiving night. ------------- "In God We Trust" all others pay cash |
Posted By: LightsOnLogan
Date Posted: 29 Oct 2009 at 8:24am
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We try to go live on Thanksgiving. Some years there have been issues which delayed the start until Dec 1. Aside from some rewiring we're pretty much going to run last year's show again this year. I had some new stuff planned but both the time and budget ran out this year. I may switch out a sequence or two, but they yard layout and light count will be the same. ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/"> 
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Posted By: kedogn
Date Posted: 29 Oct 2009 at 1:05pm
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I will do a couple test runs leading up to Thanksgiving, but go fully "Live" on Thanksgiving night through Jan 1.
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Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 29 Oct 2009 at 2:44pm
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typically life seems to end up dictating Dec firstish for me.
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Posted By: Bigindian
Date Posted: 29 Oct 2009 at 4:18pm
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Typically the last weekend of November till the first weekend of Jan for us up here
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Posted By: BigDPS
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2009 at 6:00am
I guess I'll shoot for the thanksgiving day as well! I usually get them down shortly after New Years. My wife being very religious, she'd rather leave them until the 6 of January but I'm the one freezing my bullocks taking them down....
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Posted By: deweycooter
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2009 at 9:17pm
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I hear ya, sometimes it's a bit cold in the mornings in Jan. I usually have to wear a sweatshirt, or at least long sleeves.
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Posted By: BigDPS
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2009 at 5:15pm
Wimp! Here in the Atlantic, we put on a coat when it drops to -10. Until then, it's t-shirt time!
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