Scare away senior citizen buses?? that's the most awesome thing.... to have buses pull up!! but just remember, if you leave that song in, you have to hear it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over..... and so do the neighbors. believe it or not, you can do alot with 16 channels. My first year I made a spreadsheet and kept up with the amps and watts for every strand of lights that went on the house. I had both LED and incandenscents. Obviously I got more lights out of the LEDs. you can add a colored spot light, do a little up lighting.. just make sure you do