BMurray Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Yeah, been there done that. Just yesterday I finished a large prop, and hooked it up. Out of the 27 strips I put up ONE wasn't showing Blue. Man, what a hassle to undo the shrink wrap and hot glue then to redo it all over again.... but it's fixed :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric walls Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 I guess it makes me feel slightly better to know that other people test their lights and everything's fine, and then it goes on the display and something isn't lighting up. I thought this stuff only happens to me.Usually for me I'll have one bulb pry looses which causes the rest of the stand to goes dark, making me go through every single bulb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeryis Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 And of course when something breaks its always has to be the VERY top or most inconvenient string to fix.Had to climb back to the top of the roof with a soldiering iron myself last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracy West Posted October 19, 2015 Author Share Posted October 19, 2015 Gremlins have really gotten to my Dumb Nodes. I have more nodes going bad on the strands the longer they run. Not running that many per channel. The one that crapped out only had 22 nodes. I must have gotten the B Teams batch. Very frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HallowXmas Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 I have them Gremlins as well, took out a fuse on a power supply as well half of my data line is now not working.Mmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracy West Posted October 23, 2015 Author Share Posted October 23, 2015 Fired it up tonight before all the rain hits this weekend. I still have a lot of gremlins in my lights. Part of my Web did not work. Either the dmx board went bad or the power supply. I thought I had all my dmx addresses set but some of those lights did not fire either. Neighbors loved it though. They did not see the flaws. Sigh.... I wish I could be like them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh28 Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Fired it up tonight before all the rain hits this weekend. I still have a lot of gremlins in my lights. Part of my Web did not work. Either the dmx board went bad or the power supply. I thought I had all my dmx addresses set but some of those lights did not fire either. Neighbors loved it though. They did not see the flaws. Sigh.... I wish I could be like them.ha, I couldn't get the top windows working in my house this year. In the end, I just redid things and its noticeable to only me now, I suppose. I just always remember that nobody else knows that something is working the right way.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracy West Posted October 27, 2015 Author Share Posted October 27, 2015 Last night was the first good night weather wise and light wise. Everything went off without any major malfunctioning.... Well except for my video taping. I was able to capture a couple of sequences. Here is O' Fortuna - Bark at the Moon. More to come. https://youtu.be/2kbPZLj845E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracy West Posted October 28, 2015 Author Share Posted October 28, 2015 (edited) Here is the second video of my light show for this year. I am still struggling with the camera light balance but I liked how the fog and lights looked on this one. https://youtu.be/rtxntqzT2wg (The Ripper) Play in HD! Edited October 28, 2015 by Tracy West Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracy West Posted October 29, 2015 Author Share Posted October 29, 2015 (edited) Steady stream of folks came by tonight to see the light show! Nothing like when I was living in Odessa but I am very ok with that. (No more CrAzY!) Speaking of Crazy.... All ABOARD!!! https://vimeo.com/143910063 (Crazy Train) Edited October 29, 2015 by Tracy West Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeryis Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Awesome, Thanks Tracy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james morris Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Great work as always Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracy West Posted November 6, 2015 Author Share Posted November 6, 2015 I guess YouTube is afraid of Sharon Osbourne... They pulled both of my Ozzy sequences (Crazy Train and Bark at the Moon) I have them posted on Vimeo and I have not had any problems with them there. They recognize "Fair Use" YouTube can..... (Fill in the blanks) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracy West Posted May 30, 2016 Author Share Posted May 30, 2016 As it seems, there is a lot of folks that have gotten to busy to post on the forum. I am of the guilty ones. I had posted a few things right after Halloween but as usual, YouTube pulls the plug claiming copyright infringements. Bummer. I want to say that the first year at Buda to pull off a display was difficult. New job and new house. Things are not much easier for 2016. Company sold, and back in a new job. But, I have my sights on a new display for 2016 and I have already begun working on updating sequences and building new props. New postings to come for 2016. I wanted to recap a great first year in Buda and the meeting a lot of new and nice people. A look back at 2015!https://vimeo.com/144187379 - Awaken the Dragonhttps://vimeo.com/144185830 - Addams's Familyhttps://vimeo.com/144152025 - Ghost's Bustershttps://vimeo.com/144143307 - Thrillerhttps://vimeo.com/143910063 - Crazy Trainhttps://vimeo.com/143770035 - The Ripperhttps://vimeo.com/143763851 - Bark at the Moon Looking forward to 2016 Halloween! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santas Helper Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Hey Tracy, good to see ya again and glad to hear there will be a 2016 display. I've been super busy as well working way more overtime than I care, but I can't complain since it's paying for the expensive hobby. So what plans you have for this year? Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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