Synthasizing colors

[skamin57]

Has anyone tried or had any success in synthasizing colors using red, green and blue lights. I am considering this for the front of my house instead of buying all different color strings of lights and the amount of channels that would occupy. 

[caniac]

not sure what you are asking?  there are RGB and CCF options that use one unit to allow you to "wash" your house with a variety of colors but they can be pricey and take some programming.  or are you thinking of using Red Green and Blue ican floods?

[Steven]

You could buy strings of 5mm red, green and blue LEDs and tape each set of 3 bulbs together. You'd still need to get some distance away before the colors would blend. If you could find some white translucent caps that fit over 3 bulbs, that may help.

 

It may turn out to be more trouble than it's worth.

[bobschm]

Taping the bulbs into pixels works. Each pseudo dumb RGB string will use three channels of LOR, and yes, that's a lot of taping, but with the three bulbs locked closely together into a "pixel" the viewing distance doesn't have to be that great.

[TonyD]

I'm going to try this. I thought about "braiding" the strings together in the thought it might be easier to attach and align the bulbs. Then I would probably zip-tie every so often, perhaps even zipping the 3 bulbs together to keep them as close to each other as possible.

 

But braiding would make replacing a failed string pretty difficult.

 

What do others do?

[Steven]

But braiding would make replacing a failed string pretty difficult.

 

What do others do?

 

I braid my super-strings. The LED strings don't fail very often, but when they do, I repair them in the field.

 

As a result of reading this topic, this year I think I'm going to try attaching the 5mm bulbs together to make a dumb pseudo-RGB string. (I don't think this will work for the C-6 bulbs as they seem too big.) The question is whether to use wire ties or vinyl tape?

[Ken Benedict]

Small black zip ties: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=105&cp_id=10520&cs_id=1052001&p_id=5755&seq=1&format=2

 

If you use vinyl tape, you will eventually regret it.

[Max-Paul]

Small black zip ties: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=105&cp_id=10520&cs_id=1052001&p_id=5755&seq=1&format=2

 

If you use vinyl tape, you will eventually regret it.

I'll second Ken's statement. vinyl tape, aka electrical tape seems to come loose and unwrap out in the weather.