George Simmons Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 You can also see fire sticks (I originally called them poles - but it appears that name wasn't glamorous enough) in most of my videos from 2008 to present. I also recommend, very strongly, an odd number of channels. My poles are 10 ft tall, 9 channels of 100 ct minis wrapped around 3/4" gray pvc, with a 10 ft piece of 1/2" rigid conduit inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cray Augsburg Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 George Simmons wrote: You can also see fire sticks (I originally called them poles - but it appears that name wasn't glamorous enough) in most of my videos from 2008 to present. I also recommend, very strongly, an odd number of channels. My poles are 10 ft tall, 9 channels of 100 ct minis wrapped around 3/4" gray pvc, with a 10 ft piece of 1/2" rigid conduit inside.There he goes, braggin' about the size of his poles again.:shock: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnoldc Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Cray Augsburg wrote:George Simmons wrote: You can also see fire sticks (I originally called them poles - but it appears that name wasn't glamorous enough) in most of my videos from 2008 to present. I also recommend, very strongly, an odd number of channels. My poles are 10 ft tall, 9 channels of 100 ct minis wrapped around 3/4" gray pvc, with a 10 ft piece of 1/2" rigid conduit inside.There he goes, braggin' about the size of his poles again.:shock:You never know, but I think he maybe over compensating... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeH Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Arnoldc wrote: Cray Augsburg wrote:George Simmons wrote: ...1/2" rigid... .There he goes, braggin' about the size of his poles again.:shock:You never know, but I think he maybe over compensating...Yep, he sure is.MikeH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnoldc Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Roflmao! Clever cropping there mike! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Hey - when you get past the age of joining AARP, as long as the word "rigid" remains somewhere in the equation it's all good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnoldc Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 George Simmons wrote:Hey - when you get past the age of joining AARP, as long as the word "rigid" remains somewhere in the equation it's all good...Scary day when it goes from rigid to brittle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don Gillespie Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 MikeH wrote: Arnoldc wrote: Cray Augsburg wrote:George Simmons wrote: ...1/2" rigid... .Yep, he sure is.MikeHis this with or with out viagra?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cray Augsburg Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 God, at 49 I don't want to thing about "not rigid", much less "brittle". That there's some scary stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnoldc Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Don Gillespie wrote:MikeH wrote: Arnoldc wrote: Cray Augsburg wrote:George Simmons wrote: ...1/2" rigid... .Yep, he sure is.MikeHis this with or with out viagra?? Or a pum...... Er never mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnoldc Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Cray Augsburg wrote:God, at 49 I don't want to thing about "not rigid", much less "brittle". That there's some scary stuff!Roflmao! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLD Kevin Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 It's really an arch on viagra.MikeHbetter call a doctor.it's been erect for more than four hoursdefine "member".... Funny Comments!! I used the same method as Ron & George started. I wrap 100ct lights around 1" PVC....about 11" per sleeve. Then slip over 1/2" EMT. I used 7 sleeves in the video. Go with the odd count as George suggested.The "firesticks" or whatever you want to call it were used more in these videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caniac Posted June 22, 2011 Author Share Posted June 22, 2011 Cracker wrote: It's really an arch on viagra.MikeHbetter call a doctor.it's been erect for more than four hoursdefine "member".... Funny Comments!! I used the same method as Ron & George started. I wrap 100ct lights around 1" PVC....about 11" per sleeve. Then slip over 1/2" EMT. I used 7 sleeves in the video. Go with the odd count as George suggested.The "firesticks" or whatever you want to call it were used more in these videos.you might think this is creepy but after playing around with different sizes and lengths of PVC today what worked and looked good was 1" PVC cut 11". thanks for the inspiration!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wbottomley Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Jeff Millard wrote:George Simmons wrote: snip..."rigid" remains ...unsnipThis place just keeps getting better and better!JeffYou got that right!:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightzilla Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 jstorms wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but what is a firestick? Anyone have a video example? I'd love to see one.Stick a Triple Star on top & you get a " Star Burst". Stick 10 to 16 "Firesticks" side by side spaced between 12 -16 inches and you have a Matrix. At 8 channels (sorry wedges, no maybe slices, no perhaps sections) per pole and spell out words on the Matrix.When you really think about it each display item is an basically something in a different form. A lawn grid could be a fan. Put a lawn grid in a 1/2 moon shape and you could get a "Lawn Fan". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 lightzilla wrote: When you really think about it each display item is an basically something in a different form. A lawn grid could be a fan. Put a lawn grid in a 1/2 moon shape and you could get a "Lawn Fan".Kind of like eating at a Mexican restaurant - all the same ingredients no matter what you order - just served up in different varieties.I envy people who can use their lawn in December... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightzilla Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 George Simmons wrote: lightzilla wrote: When you really think about it each display item is an basically something in a different form. A lawn grid could be a fan. Put a lawn grid in a 1/2 moon shape and you could get a "Lawn Fan".Kind of like eating at a Mexican restaurant - all the same ingredients no matter what you order - just served up in different varieties.I envy people who can use their lawn in December...I agree, about envying people with lawn grids, maybe even those that can do a roof grid too.The only way we (those who get loads of snow) could have a lawn grid is to build it about 12" above ground and hope it does not snow more that 12" in December, otherwise we would need to dig it out like last years display was dug out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crackchecker Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 lightzilla wrote: George Simmons wrote: lightzilla wrote: When you really think about it each display item is an basically something in a different form. A lawn grid could be a fan. Put a lawn grid in a 1/2 moon shape and you could get a "Lawn Fan".Kind of like eating at a Mexican restaurant - all the same ingredients no matter what you order - just served up in different varieties.I envy people who can use their lawn in December...I agree, about envying people with lawn grids, maybe even those that can do a roof grid too.The only way we (those who get loads of snow) could have a lawn grid is to build it about 12" above ground and hope it does not snow more that 12" in December, otherwise we would need to dig it out like last years display was dug out.Snow?? what in sam hell is that?? I have to worry more about the damage my lawn sprinklers are doing to my display! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyzito Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/christmaslunatic#p/u/5/BPy5RPV1_J8Here is a video of 4 'fire sticks' (i've called them 'color columns') that i just made. They have 8 segments. I used 12v flexible LED strips. I used the RGB style strips, so i can have the poles produce any color i want by mixing the RGB. I had used traditional mini lights last year and once i wrapped the 3rd color of lights around the pole A) it looked like green cotton candy and the color on the bottom got buried. These 12v strips worked perfectly. Columns are really really clean looking (and bright as the sun).i used a 4" pvc pipe. I also didn't wrap the LEDS all the way around. I used (24) 8" strips. 8 sections, 3 strips per section.So that's (24) individual channels. For connection, i pulled off the coolest thing. I have (24) negative connections and one common positive connection, for a total of 25 connections. I used a 25 pin DSub connector. I wired 2 female ports into the base of each pole. Then in the controller box i wired in female ports as well. I got a few 25' 25 pin Male to Male cables and voila... set up is so easy. The 2 ports on each pole mean they can be daisy chained. Let me know if you want more detailed instrux... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caniac Posted June 24, 2011 Author Share Posted June 24, 2011 andyzito wrote: http://www.youtube.com/christmaslunatic#p/u/5/BPy5RPV1_J8Here is a video of 4 'fire sticks' (i've called them 'color columns') that i just made. They have 8 segments. I used 12v flexible LED strips. I used the RGB style strips, so i can have the poles produce any color i want by mixing the RGB. I had used traditional mini lights last year and once i wrapped the 3rd color of lights around the pole A) it looked like green cotton candy and the color on the bottom got buried. These 12v strips worked perfectly. Columns are really really clean looking (and bright as the sun).i used a 4" pvc pipe. I also didn't wrap the LEDS all the way around. I used (24) 8" strips. 8 sections, 3 strips per section.So that's (24) individual channels. For connection, i pulled off the coolest thing. I have (24) negative connections and one common positive connection, for a total of 25 connections. I used a 25 pin DSub connector. I wired 2 female ports into the base of each pole. Then in the controller box i wired in female ports as well. I got a few 25' 25 pin Male to Male cables and voila... set up is so easy. The 2 ports on each pole mean they can be daisy chained. Let me know if you want more detailed instrux...awesome, don't even want to think about the cost though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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