rbauer007 Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 What a addiction i keep telling my self its for the kids and to make people happy ---wow just cant stop buying stuff this is my first year with light o rama 48 channels / 32 for singing faces was up to about 11 to 15000 lights then yesterday i found a guy on CL selling new boxes of lights. you should see all he has in the storage ( think i just got my new light dealer) my fix for the day was 192 100ct blue and 50 boxes of 100ct red.-24200 lights I invited over 50 friends to help sting lights on saturday hope someone comes and its not raining Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeighty Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 Welcome to the madness! Be sure that your new lights will work with your LOR controller. You certainly don't want to go to the effort to hang them to find out that they are not working right. Hopefully they aren't Martha Stuart lights as they do not play well. Have fund and make it a Merry Christmas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amstone110 Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 How good of a deal did you get on the 100ct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Hans Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 I echo the above... be careful with LED's as not all LED's are dimmable and won't work well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstorms Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 I don't pretend it's for the kids or for the neighborhood, it's all for me. Very happy that others get a bit of joy out of it, but it's mine 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbauer007 Posted October 18, 2014 Author Share Posted October 18, 2014 new target brand incandescents 100ct for $ .90 cents a box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mega Arch Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 Power provider is gonna love you. Be sure to keep track of your watts and don't exceed channel limits. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 (edited) ... Be sure to keep track of your watts and don't exceed channel limits.I think keeping tracks of amperage (Amps) is a bit more precise. And keep in mind the 80% rule.It's a good idea getting all those blues. If you only use one third of them, and then swap them out for new ones every ten days or so, you should get through the season. Edited October 18, 2014 by George Simmons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbauer007 Posted October 19, 2014 Author Share Posted October 19, 2014 you said change out blue lights every 10 days -- why? I think keeping tracks of amperage (Amps) is a bit more precise. And keep in mind the 80% rule.It's a good idea getting all those blues. If you only use one third of them, and then swap them out for new ones every ten days or so, you should get through the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeighty Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 (edited) What a addiction i keep telling my self its for the kids and to make people happy ---wow just cant stop buying stuff this is my first year with light o rama 48 channels / 32 for singing faces was up to about 11 to 15000 lights then yesterday i found a guy on CL selling new boxes of lights. you should see all he has in the storage ( think i just got my new light dealer) my fix for the day was 192 100ct blue and 50 boxes of 100ct red.-24200 lights I invited over 50 friends to help sting lights on saturday hope someone comes and its not raining90 cents a box is not a bad price, but I don't have the power to run incans. 192 100 ct boxes... that is a lot of amps assuming c6 or c9. I assume you have a bunch for backup. At 5 watts/bulb your looking at 4.2 amps per string. ((5 * 100 ) / 120). That means if you limit the load on a single circuit of your LOR controller to 8 amps you can only run one string (or 1.9 strings to be more precise; it figuring out how to do the .9 string that is the problem). Somebody double check my math. I don't want to alarm anyone due to a math or facts error. What size bulb are the strings? Edited October 19, 2014 by zeighty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 you said change out blue lights every 10 days -- why? I don't know your level of experience, but I've known blue mini lights literally from the first time they were ever in stores up until I bought my first set of blue LEDs. We're talking about lights bought over a period of decades from almost every conceivable retailer. In all that time, I don't believe I've ever encountered a single string of blue minis used outdoors that was still blue enough at the end of the season to use the following year. Heck, most blues never even made it the entire season. Unless great leaps have been made to a dying product, you're going to need as many blue replacements waiting in the wings as you can get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubado Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 90 cents a box is not a bad price, but I don't have the power to run incans. 192 100 ct boxes... that is a lot of amps assuming c6 or c9. I assume you have a bunch for backup. At 5 watts/bulb your looking at 4.2 amps per string. ((5 * 100 ) / 120). That means if you limit the load on a single circuit of your LOR controller to 8 amps you can only run one string (or 1.9 strings to be more precise; it figuring out how to do the .9 string that is the problem). Somebody double check my math. I don't want to alarm anyone due to a math or facts error. What size bulb are the strings?I'm assuming he's got mini's, not c7 or c9. c7 and c9 come in 25ct. I don't have any incad lights to look up the current draw, but I do know it's not as bad as the C series, but still needs to watch the current draw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amstone110 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 100ct incad's pull between .21amps and .33 amps. Lowes changed their lights this year and increased the amperage draw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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