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Great. Thank you. I may well be in touch.

Thanks Dave. Some great minds have produced great displays.

Wow. Good stuff. You have been a lot more thorough than me. My tubes are fixed into the tube, so they are a bugger to store and handle.

Brilliant, Dave. I'm glad someone else got inspiration from Vivid. I have knocked up a prototype from $5 of Bunnings plastic pipes, so I have gone down the cheap and cheerful route. Here is my attempt: I was thinking of making at least 4. Not quite as many as they had at Vivid. But certainly...

My other thought was to build a model with 10 strings and program each string separately. This would work if I just wanted each meteor to do the same and, as they were at different heights, it would have a good effect. But how would I do it so that each meteor starts slightly later than the...

That's what I was thinking, but it looks like a big task and was hoping someone could come up with an idea that could save time. Just being lazy:)

It is in effect just 10 meteor tubes. I can use the existing meteor model in Xlights that allows me to do some things but I don't think it gives me the ability to do the fancy chases that the Nautilus Forest has. I may have to go a different route, but not sure what..

That's what they are. I have a run of 10 meteors 500m long each with 32 lights, I need to set up a model that I can give me the sort of effects in the video without programming each meteor separately which would be a pain.

Hi, I am thinking of trying to make a small version of the Nautilus Forest this year. I loved it in Sydney's Vivid a few years ago and want to emulate a mini version. If you haven't seen it, here is a link to a you tube video: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXZeYTVnQjw My issue is...

Welcome Franko from another Novocastrian. Good to see our numbers growing. If I were you I would really try with building your own. It will give you an insight into future expansions and it really isn't that hard.

We need to think about other states as well. Red has a good point about the legal aspects, but I am also concerned about the ethical aspect with thousands of people getting out of their cars and standing next to each other looking at my lights. I cannot stop people getting out of their cars, but...

Welcome Groen95. Glad to have another Lake Macquarie person involved.

I had an AUSGRID inspector come to my property due to some **!!?? person calling anonymously suggesting there was a problem. (There wasn't.) I had a 240v cable laid in the footpath expansion joint and covered with bathroom silicone that led to my tune to sign in the verge. This was fine (and...

Keep up the good work and go for developing onto the next stage with controllers. I started with a lot of fixed lights and then wanted to control them I used a Light o Rama box and split the lights into 16 zones. Start putting music to it and the world is your oyster. I never forget what someone...

I have used a Benq projector for the last 4 years to display santa in my window. It cost around $500. The most important factor is the lumens. You need at least 2,200, preferably better. I have pixels around the outside of the window and the projector is bright enough to overcome them, to the...