nutz4lights
Full time elf
Hey all,
Like many of y'all, I ordered the Technicolor pixels last year so that I could use them in conjunction with the C9 bulb covers to get that old-fashioned look. Little did we all know that there would be quality issues. Anyway, mine didn't arrive until December 1st, so needless to say, they didn't make it up for my display last year. I told myself that the first thing I was going to work on this year was getting them up on the roof and testing them out... that way, if they were going to fail, I would know now instead of in the fall... and I could ask Ray Wu to replace them. I went through the process of putting them up over the last couple of months, which was not easy... I have documented my build details in another post: http://auschristmaslighting.com/forums/index.php?topic=5677.0
Of course, they all worked just fine in the garage...
and when I finally got around to powering them up on the house, they didn't work (the left side of the house uses four legs out of an e6804 that is mounted up peak of the house and the section above the garage uses three legs out of a p12s that is over there on the garage ridge). They had been out in the rain and elements for probably 3 weeks before I got the controller boxes finished and everything hooked up and it did rain in that time.
So I have a video that I recorded and it is at:
https://vimeo.com/album/2723819/video/91886915
I used Lightshow Pro to control the lights and I have to admit... since the first time I put C9 lights on my roof in 2005, I have always wanted to be able to sweep them left to right which I can do now! The downer, which should be obvious in the video, is that, like everybody else... I have dead pixels and strings... I have already emailed Ray Wu and he promised to replace all of the strings with the new & improved Technicolor strings... of course, I still have to spend another 2-3 weeks re-zip tying the new strings to the PVC... but at least the PVC is already cut to length and I have done it once! Things usually go quicker the second time you do them...
Okie dokie... well... enjoy and I look forward to any comments... see something I did stupid? Let me know!
-Louie in Melbourne (Florida!)
Like many of y'all, I ordered the Technicolor pixels last year so that I could use them in conjunction with the C9 bulb covers to get that old-fashioned look. Little did we all know that there would be quality issues. Anyway, mine didn't arrive until December 1st, so needless to say, they didn't make it up for my display last year. I told myself that the first thing I was going to work on this year was getting them up on the roof and testing them out... that way, if they were going to fail, I would know now instead of in the fall... and I could ask Ray Wu to replace them. I went through the process of putting them up over the last couple of months, which was not easy... I have documented my build details in another post: http://auschristmaslighting.com/forums/index.php?topic=5677.0
Of course, they all worked just fine in the garage...
and when I finally got around to powering them up on the house, they didn't work (the left side of the house uses four legs out of an e6804 that is mounted up peak of the house and the section above the garage uses three legs out of a p12s that is over there on the garage ridge). They had been out in the rain and elements for probably 3 weeks before I got the controller boxes finished and everything hooked up and it did rain in that time.So I have a video that I recorded and it is at:
https://vimeo.com/album/2723819/video/91886915
I used Lightshow Pro to control the lights and I have to admit... since the first time I put C9 lights on my roof in 2005, I have always wanted to be able to sweep them left to right which I can do now! The downer, which should be obvious in the video, is that, like everybody else... I have dead pixels and strings... I have already emailed Ray Wu and he promised to replace all of the strings with the new & improved Technicolor strings... of course, I still have to spend another 2-3 weeks re-zip tying the new strings to the PVC... but at least the PVC is already cut to length and I have done it once! Things usually go quicker the second time you do them...
Okie dokie... well... enjoy and I look forward to any comments... see something I did stupid? Let me know!
-Louie in Melbourne (Florida!)
