My own Las Vegas ceiling, my megatree suspended in the basement.

[smeighan]

I finished building a mounting rack for my 20x120 flex strips used in my megatree. they are mounted on 1/2" emt. The rack is 12'x5' in size and made of 1x4" pine. I mounted the rack to teh ceiling of my basement. Think of it like a ginat gun rack. After putting 20 of these in the rack, it was heavy! Probably over 100 lbs. I built the rack strong with angle brackets because i knew it needed strength.

 

I now have my own vegas strip. Running nutcracker effects i just have to look up to see what they look like.

 

I put some felt down to protect the flex strip. It all seems to be working fine.

 

Thanks

sean

 

 

 

 

[jmjordan]

Good idea Sean.  Looks nice!

[Santas Helper]

That's pretty cool Sean.

I can see where the party place will be from now on, except during the holidays when they will be outside.

i like that you can create a sequence and see what it's actually doing before setting it all up.

[smeighan]

That's pretty cool Sean.

I can see where the party place will be from now on, except during the holidays when they will be outside.

i like that you can create a sequence and see what it's actually doing before setting it all up.

I can also use it to test xLights and the hardware. Last year i had one string, #10, lag behind the other 19. Now I shuffled all the electronics and the strings and still #10 is lagging. Strings 1-9 are on the first hub, 10-20 are on the second hub. Now i have a place where i can experiment and find out why this is happening.

[smeighan]

i took about a minute of the matrix mounted on the ceiling of my basement.

 

video quality not the highest but you get the idea.

https://vimeo.com/61862629

[Surfing4Dough]

Mood lighting for while you sequence!