jimswinder Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 LightORamaDan wrote: I think we are some ways from the day where we stop using "regular" Christmas lights (be they LED or incandescent)...DanYikes!!!I was hoping to be 95% CCB's by 2012!!And I think I am older than you Dan!! :shock: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightORamaDan Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 jimswinder wrote: LightORamaDan wrote: I think we are some ways from the day where we stop using "regular" Christmas lights (be they LED or incandescent)...DanYikes!!!I was hoping to be 95% CCB's by 2012!!And I think I am older than you Dan!! :shock:CCBs are cool and you can do amazing stuff with them that you could not do with regular Christmas Lights.... However I do not see people abandoning traditional lights and going all CCBs... Time will tell.Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgardner518 Posted March 17, 2011 Author Share Posted March 17, 2011 LightORamaDan wrote: Certainly users who go with the CCRs and CCBs will need fewer regular controllers.As I don't have any CCR's yet. But, I have been pondering the though of them. I have yet to figure anything out yet on them. I want to buy 12, but $2500, is more than I can spare right now.But based on your comment. If I had a CCR, they connect into the setup without a controller?I'm a PC only controller person. But I was always under the impression that, for every CCR you had, you needed an open plug on a "controller" for it to plug into! That's wrong!So wait, the Cat5 wire plugs directly into the CCR and the CCR plugs directly into a power source, making it its own unit, and not taking anything away from any other controller? No matter how many CCR's you have?Whoa! I NEVER realized this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph D Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Thank you Dan! now that, thats solved, on to the bigger issue. Do I buy lights? or do I buy controllers. Do I buy lights, or do I buy controllers.I'm so tormented by my choices! lollol, kind of like.... which came first.. the controller or the light.(the chicken or the egg thing) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimswinder Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Ralph D wrote: Do I buy lights, or do I buy controllers.I'm so tormented by my choices! loljust buy CCB's...no controllers needed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 jimswinder wrote: LightORamaDan wrote: I think we are some ways from the day where we stop using "regular" Christmas lights (be they LED or incandescent)...DanYikes!!!I was hoping to be 95% CCB's by 2012!!And I think I am older than you Dan!! :shock:Yea, but I think dirt has you beat...:P:D:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightORamaDan Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Ralph D wrote: Thank you Dan! now that, thats solved, on to the bigger issue. Do I buy lights? or do I buy controllers. Do I buy lights, or do I buy controllers.I'm so tormented by my choices! lollol, kind of like.... which came first.. the controller or the light.(the chicken or the egg thing)It really depends on what you want to do. Personally, I like to see lots of mini lights on a tree and that requires controllers. If you want some RGB stuff in the display as well CCRs and CCBs will fit the bill.A person can take one or two sixteen channel controllers and animate a whole yard and you just can't do that with a couple of CCRs or CCBs.Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Herberger Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 LightORamaDan wrote: It really depends on what you want to do. Personally, I like to see lots of mini lights on a tree and that requires controllers. If you want some RGB stuff in the display as well CCRs and CCBs will fit the bill.A person can take one or two sixteen channel controllers and animate a whole yard and you just can't do that with a couple of CCRs or CCBs.DanIs there any future plans to have non-digital CCBs where the whole strand is RGB but without individual pixel control? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightORamaDan Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Tim Herberger wrote: LightORamaDan wrote: It really depends on what you want to do. Personally, I like to see lots of mini lights on a tree and that requires controllers. If you want some RGB stuff in the display as well CCRs and CCBs will fit the bill.A person can take one or two sixteen channel controllers and animate a whole yard and you just can't do that with a couple of CCRs or CCBs.DanIs there any future plans to have non-digital CCBs where the whole strand is RGB but without individual pixel control? We have been considering it.Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Burge Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Tim Herberger wroteIs there any future plans to have non-digital CCBs where the whole strand is RGB but without individual pixel control? That would be great if the price could be kept down I would buy them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimswinder Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 LightORamaDan wrote:Is there any future plans to have non-digital CCBs where the whole strand is RGB but without individual pixel control? We have been considering it.DanAARGH!!!! LOLThat changes everything for me!!!Any idea when those might come out?And what exactly does that mean (non-digital CCBs where the whole strand is RGB)?That you could just control them to be either ALL Red, Green, or Blue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightORamaDan Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 jimswinder wrote: LightORamaDan wrote:Is there any future plans to have non-digital CCBs where the whole strand is RGB but without individual pixel control? We have been considering it.DanAARGH!!!! LOLThat changes everything for me!!!Any idea when those might come out?And what exactly does that mean (non-digital CCBs where the whole strand is RGB)?That you could just control them to be either ALL Red, Green, or Blue?All the bulbs on the string could be any color but the would all be the same color at any one time. The string would take up 3 channels in the network... One for Red, Green and Blue...As I said it was somthing we were considering. Will not be this year (as far as I know) and no idea what the price would be except it would be less than CCBs.Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don Gillespie Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 LightORamaDan wrote: jimswinder wrote: LightORamaDan wrote: I think we are some ways from the day where we stop using "regular" Christmas lights (be they LED or incandescent)...DanYikes!!!I was hoping to be 95% CCB's by 2012!!And I think I am older than you Dan!! :shock:CCBs are cool and you can do amazing stuff with them that you could not do with regular Christmas Lights.... However I do not see people abandoning traditional lights and going all CCBs... Time will tell.DanCCBs, CCRs, what is this world coming to there is no doubt these will take over traditional lights we just have to get the price down to $19.95 a string for a 100 count but maybe you to old guys can work this out LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulXmas Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 LightORamaDan wrote: jimswinder wrote: LightORamaDan wrote:Is there any future plans to have non-digital CCBs where the whole strand is RGB but without individual pixel control? We have been considering it.DanAARGH!!!! LOLThat changes everything for me!!!Any idea when those might come out?And what exactly does that mean (non-digital CCBs where the whole strand is RGB)?That you could just control them to be either ALL Red, Green, or Blue?All the bulbs on the string could be any color but the would all be the same color at any one time. The string would take up 3 channels in the network... One for Red, Green and Blue...As I said it was somthing we were considering. Will not be this year (as far as I know) and no idea what the price would be except it would be less than CCBs.DanThat is something I would be interested in! (as long as the price was low enough).Could out line my house/windows with one "string" and have lights for Halloween (Orange purple and white) and Christmas (white, red, blue, green, yellow and on and on) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Taylor Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Info from the webSale Starts: March 23 at 10:00 PM EDT . Good Luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwertz Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 LightORamaDan wrote: All the bulbs on the string could be any color but the would all be the same color at any one time. The string would take up 3 channels in the network... One for Red, Green and Blue...As I said it was somthing we were considering. Will not be this year (as far as I know) and no idea what the price would be except it would be less than CCBs.DanAdd me to the list of folks hoping you decide to do this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wbottomley Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Jamie Taylor wrote:Info from the webSale Starts: March 23 at 10:00 PM EDT . Good Luck.Where's that information posted at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgardner518 Posted March 18, 2011 Author Share Posted March 18, 2011 Mountainwxman wrote: Jamie Taylor wrote:Info from the webSale Starts: March 23 at 10:00 PM EDT . Good Luck.Where's that information posted at?Its the top tab on the store site. Here is a direct link.http://store.lightorama.com/secretsale.htmlDan gave the link several posts ago. But the title changed from "not started yet" to the date and time.Dan, I like this new part. Its a small way to even out the field a little,IMPORTANT: There is a $1500.00 Limit on orders. If your order total goes above $1500.00 you will not be able to checkout. You can place multiple orders. We have imposed this limit to prevent one person from buying up all the stock on fast selling items. (we will combine shipping if you place more than one order). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wbottomley Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 10-4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightzilla Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 To bad no 8 channels controllers are on that list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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