ThatBigManWithLights Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Below is a picture of the house that I just purchased. I am a young single guy with plenty of time on his hands a little experience with LOR from last year. I am asking for any ideas for decoration designs and lights. I have one 2 16 channel controllers atm. Will look into more if I see a design that would require more. Atm I am thinking of one 12 channel mega tree and just lights on the windows, garage, and roofline. What else could I do? Any help greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scud2 Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Below is a picture of the house that I just purchased. I am a young single guy with plenty of time on his hands a little experience with LOR from last year. I am asking for any ideas for decoration designs and lights. I have one 2 16 channel controllers atm. Will look into more if I see a design that would require more. Atm I am thinking of one 12 channel mega tree and just lights on the windows, garage, and roofline. What else could I do? Any help greatly appreciated. Great start. I line the driveway with little led trees from ebay. I also have a manger. I built 3 trees...Kinda small but one channel each. The arches however are cosmic color ribbon. Those are the highlight. When you outline...do the entire roof. That will be awesome. Good luck and inform us what you do!!! Here is a quick link. The timing in the video is off because of the bit rate...that has been fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scud2 Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Also are you in a warm temperature area? Outline the year is an option. I am from cleveland and we don't see much snow before January but we can see 4 or 5 inches at Christmas so that is not an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatBigManWithLights Posted October 11, 2016 Author Share Posted October 11, 2016 4 hours ago, Scud2 said: Also are you in a warm temperature area? Outline the year is an option. I am from cleveland and we don't see much snow before January but we can see 4 or 5 inches at Christmas so that is not an option. We may het 2 to 3 inches of snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scud2 Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Yeah so the outline of the yard is prob not great. But its always an option. I love my little trees. When the whole display is lit they really stand out and they are led so they are bright... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1983ss454 Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Also are you in a warm temperature area? Outline the year is an option. I am from cleveland and we don't see much snow before January but we can see 4 or 5 inches at Christmas so that is not an option. I did an outline is Massachusetts this past year before I moved south, I built it out of 3/4" pvc 5-6" off the ground Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scud2 Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I did an outline is Massachusetts this past year before I moved south, I built it out of 3/4" pvc 5-6" off the ground Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Most of my display is off the ground. My first year I did an outline in my yard. I snow plow and I was doing my own yard. Had no where else to put it and had to ruin it. Lol. I stay about 4-5 inches off the ground now haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatBigManWithLights Posted October 12, 2016 Author Share Posted October 12, 2016 Ive added house line and a small tree in the front. Im thinking this so far Channel 1: Roof Line Channel 2,3,4, Window sections Channel 5 Garage Channel 6 Door Channel 7-14 8 channel mega tree Leaves 2 channels on one box and 16 on the other. Any more ideas. I think I want to line driveway but what would i line driveway with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scud2 Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 4-5 candy canes on either side of the drive would eat up the rest... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
75redman Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 9 minutes ago, ThatBigManWithLights said: Ive added house line and a small tree in the front. Im thinking this so far Channel 1: Roof Line Channel 2,3,4, Window sections Channel 5 Garage Channel 6 Door Channel 7-14 8 channel mega tree Leaves 2 channels on one box and 16 on the other. Any more ideas. I think I want to line driveway but what would i line driveway with. I would do 8 mini trees on each side of the driveway. Leave the other 2 channels open as spares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatBigManWithLights Posted October 12, 2016 Author Share Posted October 12, 2016 6 minutes ago, Scud2 said: 4-5 candy canes on either side of the drive would eat up the rest... link to reasonable priced good looking candy canes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatBigManWithLights Posted October 12, 2016 Author Share Posted October 12, 2016 1 minute ago, 75redman said: I would do 8 mini trees on each side of the driveway. Leave the other 2 channels open as spares. link to reasonable priced good looking mini trees? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
75redman Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 Just now, ThatBigManWithLights said: link to reasonable priced good looking mini trees? I was thinking make them out of tomato cages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scud2 Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 http://m.ebay.com/itm/LED-Rope-Light-In-Outdoor-Star-Christmas-Tree-Shape-Decorative-Party-Red-Green-/252127450550?nav=SEARCH Here are the trees that I use. They are bright and look great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scud2 Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 Haha I said use 5 can't canes on each side of the drive...you would need 8 each side. It's been a long day lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzAz Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 are your 2 x 16 ch controllers the AC ones? What sort of lights are you planning on the roof and house outline? I'd think of splitting the roof into 3 sections (left middle right) and reducing window to 2 (is the little half circle really required? Will that be a bit harder to attach lights to?) most mega trees I've seen use either 12 or 16 channels, so maybe increase yours to 12? controller 1: 1,2,3 - roof 4,5 - window 6 - garage 7 - door 8,9,10,11 - mini trees 12 -16 - ??? controller 2: 1-12 - mega tree 13,14,15,16 - mini trees 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lkcubsrule Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 I agree with OzAz. I might suggest some good flood lights...they're relatively inexpensive and they can pack a punch. Maybe that's 12-16? You could also split up your garage into 2-3 sections for additional programming flexibility. Another thing - from a compositional standpoint, you've chosen to outline the garage verticals - which is basically the two right vertical edges of the house. What if you outlined the remaining two on the left side to bring things into balance? You could forgo outlining the top of the garage door as it's so close to the roof, and the verticals would take up 4 channels. Sent from my SM-G930T using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownTown Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 I like adding lots of mini trees on the roof... Tomato cages, and add lights for 1 or more channels, or use pixels on them. Lots of options there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatBigManWithLights Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 this what i have so far but im in search of 4 more channels. I was wondering also if anyone knew how to boost my fm transmitters range and power Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 What kind of transmitter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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