Early plans for 2014

harrison0550

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Sadly I have been searching forums all night and still cannot find everything I want to add for 2014.

1: dripping meteor tubes.
2: 2 X Pixel mega trees
3: 2 X pixel fans
4: 4 X shooting stars
5: house matrix eh maybe

My concern is:
1: The dripping tubes. Either all I find are junk or way to expensive. That and I cant decide if they need to be RGB or just plain white. opinions needed please.....

2: Cant decide if these should be ray trees with strip or if I should build them with nodes. Being that these will be very close to the street I think they will be to bright if I use strips. Again opinions needed please.....

3,4,5 I got a firm grasp on.

Any suggestions for 1 and 2 though?

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arw01

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What's ray;s part number for those rgb tubes, please? I only find solid color ones.


Wondering about using some t5 bulb covers to roll your own with flex strips or nodes.


Alan
 

Christmas on Clarafield

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Andy I share your dilemma on the pixel tree and that's why I haven't committed to adding one yet. Here's my thoughts having seen most others build threads and show videos. NB I may make some assumptions here based on my perceived notion of relative cost, ease of construction and time required. Everyone has put a lot of work in to their mega trees a d let me say that I am envious of all of them because you have one and I don't.
I think it comes down to whether you want a 2D or 3D tree.
Strip tree:
Easier to construct, ie zip tie to conduit so potentially quicker and cheaper to build.
More Weatherproof (separate debate that I think fasteddy has talked about)
But a 2d tree doesn't really excite.
Node tree:
More like a traditional mega tree appearance and hence more appealing to me.

This may all depend on the best viewing angle for your show. Maybe because I always have the "behind the scenes" view of my show I want a full 360 node tree.
 

harrison0550

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Here is my 2014 network plans. I'm using dropbox to update seq files between my main sequencing pc and the netbook with xlights scheduler. I just made the xlights directory on both PC's a folder inside dropbox so any changes inside the house auto update on the netbook. I also installed logmein on to the netbook so I could control/test lights in the yard with my ipad or phone. I tested everything before I took the display down this year and it worked like a dream.


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ScottyJ

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Thanks Travis


The tree is 32 strands of 50 12v 2811 pixels each for a total of 1600 nodes, I used 1/2 PVC cut at 15' long the nodes are spaced 3-3/8in apart,
drove the whole tree on one Sandevice 6804 injecting power every 100 nodes, Ive attached a few pics of the legs


Scott
 

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ScottyJ

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Yes I did! Using LSP 2.8, most of the effects are Macros using the image and color slider, I just started creating pictures in Open Office Drawing tool and using the image macro on the tree and other elements in the display
 

Jodenbach

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Wow! well it looks killer. I love the spinning ones, very 3D looking. Would you happen to care to share some images so I can see what exactly i need to do? thanks.
 
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