Lights changing colors

[Guest Don Gillespie]

Ok I have seen a whole bunch of videos that show the lights changing from blue to red to green the question I have is are you stringing up those three colors around the house and programing them or are they different lights that I do not know about all my lights are LED they are all the solid colors should I be looking at the color changing lights and if I do get the color changing can you manage the colors or do they switch by then selves, I think everyone is using different colors I can't see changing your whole yard from red to green to blue unless you can controll it am I right with this??

[George Simmons]

I don't think there are very many who use color-changing lights in their synhcronized displays. Personally, I use red and green as my "basic" colors and have both those colors everywhere you see them in my videos. House, garage, neighbors house & garage, trees and bushes in the yards - almost all have both red and green lights on them. Altogether, I have 6 separate red channels and six separate green channels spread out over both yards. Probably by next year I'll have accumulated enough blue to add that as a basic color also and at that time will add both blue and clear to the mix.

[Guest Don Gillespie]

Thanks George thats what I thought I guess its off to the light store for more lights

[Denny]

I bought some retrofit LED bulbs from Travis about three years ago that change colors. However, you have no control over the speed or color as they cycle through the colors. They work quite well for some special effects but they cannot be faded (on and off only). Also, you can use the d-light fire-fly to control each "bulb", changing colors, fading, etc. Each "bulb" is about an inch in diameter and there are sixteen on a string. Then, there is the CCR from LOR that is more like rope light. These can also be individually controlled.

[Rafter Bar R]

There is a trend with the newer LED light strips that use a surface mount RGB LED. The common "+" positve strips work with the CMB16D low voltage controller. This is also a trend with LED devices that controlled via DMX. LOR's Cosmic Color Ribbon and D-Light's Firefly use RGB nodes (each node controls three SMD RGB LED's) that are individually controlled. This will be easier to program once LOR introduces an "RGB tool" in their software.

[GS]

I super string everything R, G, B. Many people use white in their strings too. In my opinion, the white washes out the other colors. Multi color super strings give you many more possibilities, particularly if you are a fader.

R = red

G = green

B = blue

R+G = yellow

G+B = cyan

R+B = magenta

R+G+B = white

It's not perfect, but it works very well.

Glenn


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