starzen
New elf
very happy
finally got my first pixel tree set up and it all seems to work. Don't want to call it a mega tree because it is only about 10 foot tall so it is a medium tree ;-)
Sadly I don't have a lot of real estate in front of my house so I have to limit things so they fit. Although my neighbors don't mind me taking over their yards as well
I built mine from info from here and other sites. Made a modified portable hole (just made it a little smaller) and used a 3/4 inch black pipe (heavy sucker).
3 guy wires just to be on the safe side as it is highly accessible to people and right next to the sidewalk
used a tree topper with 24 hooks but only filled 16 of them for a 270 degree tree.
16 string made from black plastic strapping (have a few thousand feet left over ..) with 40 5V pixels each. Power injected between each string at the bottom.
the bottom is made with electrical conduit. Not quite a circle but good enough ...
added a star on top with 50 pixels on it as well. Using a J1SYS P2
had one little hiccup because I marked 2 strings the wrong direction and didn't notice until I was finished so the first string was down instead of up but luckily I could just take that string off and move it to the other end of the tree and just twist the tree a few degrees.
today I will still need to secretly trim the neighbors tree because it covers the view a little .... no they don't mind
finally got my first pixel tree set up and it all seems to work. Don't want to call it a mega tree because it is only about 10 foot tall so it is a medium tree ;-)
Sadly I don't have a lot of real estate in front of my house so I have to limit things so they fit. Although my neighbors don't mind me taking over their yards as well
I built mine from info from here and other sites. Made a modified portable hole (just made it a little smaller) and used a 3/4 inch black pipe (heavy sucker).
3 guy wires just to be on the safe side as it is highly accessible to people and right next to the sidewalk
used a tree topper with 24 hooks but only filled 16 of them for a 270 degree tree.
16 string made from black plastic strapping (have a few thousand feet left over ..) with 40 5V pixels each. Power injected between each string at the bottom.
the bottom is made with electrical conduit. Not quite a circle but good enough ...
added a star on top with 50 pixels on it as well. Using a J1SYS P2
had one little hiccup because I marked 2 strings the wrong direction and didn't notice until I was finished so the first string was down instead of up but luckily I could just take that string off and move it to the other end of the tree and just twist the tree a few degrees.
today I will still need to secretly trim the neighbors tree because it covers the view a little .... no they don't mind