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First time will be our local Christmas light parade.. next will be Mardi Gras in Feb. That and any other light parades I can find in the area. It was just a fun project.. kinda like my other two lighted floats, (Titus the Turtle and Kitty the Snail).

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So Sept of 2024 I started down the road making yet another parade float. This time a cartoon Locomotive. 10 months later... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptzklnfNM6A Started with a GEM e825 and just started ripping it apart. No plans, no prints.. just started tearing into it and...

Thank you all. If these interest you I did a talk about Driveable Parade Floats View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAQnT8OBQVo

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkwhEi9gTJ4

These are just test videos to show the new owners what's coming their way. I only put a single butterfly effect on them but they are fully programmable using xLights. Each has a Pi and an M4-Pi and a music box. They are not the same as my personal lighted floats View...

I haven't been here in a long time because I stopped doing displays. So I thought I would show up with what I am doing now. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o07oIhvl88Q YouTube kinda blurred the video and I can't figure out how to post the original because it's pretty big I am in...

Since I have gone dark with my display and since I am paring down my computer time on the net, I have decided that I don't contribute much here so this is one of my places to let go of. It has been a pleasure over the years, and what little time I have spent here was fun. I will miss this...

I was asked which I used. Here is a small list on this page.. there are a lot more on the web site and there are also many other sellers. A lot of them already have over voltage protection. They also have over current protection which saves me an inline fuse many times...

I just saw this thread and thought I would jump in.. 1st off, I have used over 60 Buck converters in my display and I have only had one failure and it just shut down never over voltage that I am aware of. It took nothing out with it. If you don't cheap out and try to use the $1 version you...

I used a few of them last year and they were great! saved me a ton of wiring and mini amps..

YES.. they were a hit along with my 8' tall singing faces in the 50' redwoods.. (kids loved those)..

Ya know.. I did that year off thing last year.. people found out it was back in about a week and they came by the thousands. I couldn't down size the front.. just not in my nature.. ha ha.. I will do the back yard for private family and friends.. that will be all from now on.. But thanks for...