Dave Kaser Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 My daughter wants me to string up some lights then control them to make it appear that snow is falling (something you don't see very often in Tucson).:shock:Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsrail Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 Dave Kaser wrote: My daughter wants me to string up some lights then control them to make it appear that snow is falling (something you don't see very often in Tucson).:shock:Any ideas?This: http://www.lightflurries.com/ ?ORIf you 'need' to string up lights, maybe many rows of horizontal minis that chase going down? This could probably work, if sequenced properly, but would not be a very cost-effective effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in Houston Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 DaveLook at my Avatar I have been stringing lights in my trees for many years. I hang 50 strings of the 100 ct minis. This year I am increasing the strings by 15 and will be adding 3 LOR channels to control them. I am going to use/try several effects to twinkle them.I don't know if this will give you the falling effect you would like but I can say it looks very good in my setup.TwinkleTwinkle with off cells every other cellShimmerShimmer with off cells every other cellVary the power on all the above.I use the .05 setting for the sequence to allow me to do the off cell and get a better effect.All these combinations will be used across the 3 channels so the the effect will be varied on the channels.Anthony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nnewby Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 varying the power of shimmer and twinkle? i didn't know you could do that... how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in Houston Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 You dont vary the power of the shimmer or twinkle. You can make you own twinkle effect by turning off cells and then the cells you dont have turned off you can vary the power there.Anthony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Kaser Posted November 14, 2007 Author Share Posted November 14, 2007 Thanks all for the ideas. I like the light (bascially a mirror ball with spotlight) from Light Flurries. I guess that after spending over $1,000 bucks on my Halloween display, another $90 for Christmas is probably not too bad.Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FBW4 Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 BUT the snow flurry kit is not very well made. I have one and it is not a very 'rugged' or even moderately secure piece of equipment. It is also not water tight and you will have to "rig" something in the yard to use it.I probably would NOT buy another one if it came up again.BUT- I do like the way it looks.Rusty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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