you really wussed out with the "happy holidays"

He also has baby Jesus on display.

Is it roasting on a spit?

Now that's American!

Wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

master never takes a holiday from spitting atheist venom.

[QUOTE=lilrascal;48937633]Here's a video of one of the songs in my Christmas Light Display. Not the greatest of quality, but it gives a better idea of the animation aspect of the display.

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That's great! Wow, how many channels is that? I lost count after seeing the 48 sets of lights around the tree...

I just assume with his level of divinity that he would taste awesome

tastic

I asked my uber driver if he's taking time off for the holidays and he said, in an accent I'm not aware of, "hell no, because this is the united states of america and I'm here to work hard" and I got all patriotic for a bit

America Uber Alles

Was he wearing this:

Sounds like a refugee from France

GOAT Christmas carol, bitches!

No, they like it. As it gets closer to Thanksgiving people from throughout the neighborhood stop me and ask when the display is going up.

A few days ago we had some carolers come by to thank us for the display since it's become part of their family tradition to come and see. That was really special and it made the day for me and my wife.

I have 144 channels total. The tree is 18 channels, 16 going down (3/channel), 1 for the top and 1 for the strobes.

Oh, and where is the rats nest of extension cords? Everything looks super clean...

They're on the ground going to the controllers in multiple locations, so they're spread out a little. The controllers are in the "Christmas Present Boxes" next to each tree and behind the fence. You can see the "Box" in the Nativity Scene pic.

I have over a mile of extension cords. I used to keep track, but I don't anymore.

Okay, how do you do those arches? The motion looks very smooth!

They're six channels each, and the lights are on sections of PVC slid over one big piece of PVC. The intensity of the lights are brought ramped up and down to make it look smoother.

Here's a pic of the arches in daylight.



Here's the controllers on the "Box":



and some of the cords coming out of the box going to the different display elements:




For each sequence, I typically use 1/10 second timing to sync it up with the music. The programming of each sequence is what takes the most time, but there are a lot of people sharing their sequences so I have to adjust it for my display and don't have to figure out the musical beats, which would be a real struggle for me.

Very cool LR

lilrascal, how well does the display tolerate rain?

What does it cost to run?

Lilrascal! Very nice! it feels if you took a better quality audio with the visual you created which is awesome..would vastly improve the video overall which was very cool but the sound quality didn't do your show justice.

Really enjoyed the sync of the song/lights.

I can't begin to imagine the work/efforts put into setting that up.

Maybe take a tripoded/stable video and add the sound track after? I could help with that if you sent me a stable video.

Sounds even better.

What are the drawbacks?