Doirche's Christmas Lights

Post by **Beowulf** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 1:06 pm

Wow! You really go all out!

Post by **Halaster Blackcloak** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:49 pm

Wait till you see him animate it! OMG!

Post by **Varl** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 12:11 am

Nice and green! I like it.

Post by **Doirche** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:33 pm

Everything in green can also change to red and white as well. Missing from the picture are an additional ten 6' artificial trees that have 600 green, red, and white lights on them. Should have over 45,000 lights when all is said and done. Hopefully tomorrow night will be the first night it is animated.

-D

Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:29 am

I think you should add blue, orange, yellow, and pink.

Just kidding!

Post by **Elayne** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 2:57 am

Too gloomy and dark for my tastes.

(j/k)

Post by **Doirche** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 10:17 am

Last night was the first night of the display. Around 20 cars came by to watch it as well as 15-20 people on foot. Not bad considering I didn't tell anyone it would be on.

The video was shot with a digital camera so the quality sucks. I hope to rent or borrow a 3CCD HD Video Camera in the coming days so I can capture better quality video.

Enjoy....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDdSg5v6iM0

Post by **Varl** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:24 am

Very cool. Reminds me of the Trans Siberian Orchestra's rendition Wizards in Winter Xmas light display.

Post by **Halaster Blackcloak** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 2:08 am

We were all too busy changing our shorts after seeing it!

Seriously, I didn't even see this post when you posted it. How I missed it is beyond me! Hey, how did you get the background so dark? Doirche, have you been shooting out street lights?

But yeah, holy shit, that is simply incredible man! I daresay I think you've outdone Holdman on this one.

Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:12 pm

More videos! I wanna see what other songs you programmed! How about Wonderland, that disco version?

Wed Dec 23, 2009 12:07 am

Damn, I hope Doirche didn't electrocute himself with all those megawatts of lights!

Doirche, where are the latest vids? I'm dying to see what else you did.

Post by **Doirche** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 7:03 pm

Here are the rest of the video's. IMO they came out WAY too dark. Blame it on operator error.

Jingle Bell Rock

Amazing Grace

Music Box Dancer

Next year I plan on having 8 songs programmed and a bunch of new lights in the show. Stay tuned.

Post by **Halaster Blackcloak** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 9:47 pm

Freaking amazing! I can't wait to see next year! Hope there's blue and yellow lights too!

Post by **Doirche** » Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:29 pm

I have 144 "channels" on the display already..... this is considering the red, green, and white on every "element" of the display. In order to add another SINGLE color would add a third new channels or approx 48 channels. To add two new colors would mean to add 96 new channels or 6 more Light O Rama controllers and 12 additonal 15 amp circuit breakers. This is not compunting the cost of the lights to make it look pretty.

Of course I could do this if I had L.E.D. lights on my house, but anyone want to donate the $12,000 it would cost to retrofit my lights with L.E.D.'s ?

I didn't think so

Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:59 am

But just think how cool it would look!

Post by **Tarrax Ironwolf** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 12:42 am

I realize that this comes a wee late, but DAMN that was awesome!