Florida Christmas
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- Dec 11, 2020
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My wife had been asking me to put up Christmas lights since we bought the house 3 years ago. She knows that I never do anything halfway so she should have seen this coming! Instead of the traditional incandescent lights, I'm running a Falcon F16V3 from a Raspberry pi. I'm currently at 472 pixels with about 500 more to go. This years objective is to line the roof and outline the windows and garage doors. I'll start looking at more interesting props for next year.
I'm mounting all of my pixels in F-channel, for the eaves, or J-channel, for the windows, that matches the trim on my house. They go up in minutes but it takes hours to construct them. You can see in the picture below the F-channel. The little tab on the side just pops under the flashing on the eaves and I can get 100s of lights up in minutes. I'm just gluing the pixels in place at the moment but I'm considering making it permanent by filling the channel with epoxy after the season. I need to do a little more research on pixel life expectancy first though.
Every time I've had an issue or question during this journey this forum came up in the searches and last night when I added a new string that had the wrong colors and some yellow mixed in with the white, this forum once again pointed me in the right direction. Note to self: 9 times out of 10 the problem is the channel settings on the controller!!!
Thanks for the help you guys have already provided and thanks in advance for the help you will provide in the future. I'll get a picture of the lights tonight. Somehow I have been too admiring my work each night to remember to take a picture
I'm mounting all of my pixels in F-channel, for the eaves, or J-channel, for the windows, that matches the trim on my house. They go up in minutes but it takes hours to construct them. You can see in the picture below the F-channel. The little tab on the side just pops under the flashing on the eaves and I can get 100s of lights up in minutes. I'm just gluing the pixels in place at the moment but I'm considering making it permanent by filling the channel with epoxy after the season. I need to do a little more research on pixel life expectancy first though.
Every time I've had an issue or question during this journey this forum came up in the searches and last night when I added a new string that had the wrong colors and some yellow mixed in with the white, this forum once again pointed me in the right direction. Note to self: 9 times out of 10 the problem is the channel settings on the controller!!!
Thanks for the help you guys have already provided and thanks in advance for the help you will provide in the future. I'll get a picture of the lights tonight. Somehow I have been too admiring my work each night to remember to take a picture