New to LOR - 1st year setup

[Rich Mielke]

Hi All,

This is my first post

I just bought 2 16 channel LOR controllers and was hoping for some help with how I should set up my lights.

What I have and What I'm planning:

8 Mini trees - Unwraped at the moment

4 Leaping arches - Material bought, buinking them after halloween.

House Trim lights

My thoughts on set up:

16 channels - mini trees 2 channels / tree

14 channels - 7 channels / arch (2 pairs as 1 and 3 tied together, 2 and 4 tied together)

2 Channels House trim (1 channel blue, 1 channel white)

Questions:

1) would I be better to go with 4 - 4 channel minis or 16 1 channel ?

2) everything I see uses 8 channels/arch will 7 look off?

3) any sugestions?

Thanks in advance

Rich

[Surfing4Dough]

Welcome to the madness!
Many use 7ch arches, so you will be fine. I am planning 7ch arches myself this year, and they look fine. I prefer the odd number of channels, so you have a channel directly at the top of the arch.

I suggest you read here about arch sleeves--it will make things much easier.
http://forums.planetchristmas.com/showthread.php/36584-Easy-way-to-make-arches!!!
http://forums.planetchristmas.com/showthread.php/39647-Arch-Sleeves

Buy lots of extension cords (or many feet of SPT cord).

Do lots of reading, ask lots of questions, contribute to threads where you can, and have fun!

[redsea300]

I am using 8 channels per arch and 2 chsnnels per mini tee some are green/white some are red/blue. go to my website and check out videos. if you want i can send you a copy of a sequence of your choice to help you get started.
Good luck
don c
just send a email thru my website

[George Simmons]

I'd stick with the two-color mini trees only because there's more of them that way. You can always expand to more colors when you have more channels to work with.

I also think 7 segments makes a superior arch compared to six or eight segments. Mine are 7-segment models and I like having a single center segment to work with. I've done sequencing for others - both six and eight segment arches - and not only were they a pain to program but they gave me fewer options/patterns to work with.

[Rich Mielke]

I just wathched some of your 2009 videos...

I need more channels

[Rich Mielke]

Surfing4Dough wrote:

I suggest you read here about arch sleeves--it will make things much easier.
http://forums.planetchristmas.com/showthread.php/36584-Easy-way-to-make-arches!!!
http://forums.planetchristmas.com/showthread.php/39647-Arch-Sleeves


Excelent Idea, wraping the whole 10 length of pvc lookd more difficult, this way I can wrap them while I'm watching tv.

[Rich Mielke]

Just a thought on mini tree setup

1,2,3   4     5    6     7     8     9     10    11    12     13,14,15
 /     ^     ^    ^     ^     ^     ^     ^      ^     ^       /

1,2,3 RBG, Clear on 16
4,7,10 Red, Clear on 16
5,8,11 Blue, Clear on 16
6,9,12 Green, Clear on 16
13,14,15 RGB, Clear on 16

Advantages: 11 trees on 16 channels,

Chase colors Red 1,4,7,10, 13 - Blue 2,5,8,11,14 - Green 3,6,9,12,15

2 end treed change/fade colors

Dis-Advantages: Clear is all channel 16

[captainron19]

Welcome to the wonderful world of LOR Addiction!

I have 7 channel arches (first time this year) if you need any files for the arch sequences let me know I got a bunch