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Lighting Neighborhood Houses - How Many?


MikeERWNC

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So along with my light show, I try to include my neighbors.

Most of them are elderly but enjoy the lights and showing off their houses.

I am currently up to four houses which I provide the LED's for and decorate them.

This year I have two with Multi icicles, one will be purple crystal, and one warm white C9.

How many do you do?

My wife and I have been discussing adding one light controller at each house.

Maybe in the future. It is just money.

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Mine and the one directly across the street.  Been planning on doing dueling banjo's but haven't got to the sequencing yet.  He has his own controller and I hook into it using ELL's.  Just 16 ch, on his, forget how many I have....

 

-RainyOregonchiStmaS

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Currently, mine. lol

But I have new neighbors moving in across the street.  I have already met them and he is really in to decorating for Christmas.  I told him about what I did and he said he had seen the show last year and loved it.

So, maybe next year we will be together or playing dueling houses. :D

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Oh, and I forgot... this year I am also planning on doing some Guerrilla Christmas Lighting.  I have a friend who for years has wanted to do animated lighting, but hasn't had the funds.  So I snagged a used Mr. Christmas, and will be building 6 mini trees to set in his yard in the middle of the night and plugging in as a surprise.  Yea, I know, it's a Mr. Christmas, but putting a 16 channel display in someone's yard in 10 minutes under the cover of darkness wouldn't be easy.  So Mr C. fits the bill on this one.

 

So I guess I will be doing three houses... oh and I also put up some static lights for an older couple in the cul de sac.  So that makes 4...oh... and then I built my father a Pixel Mega tree for his yard, so that makes 5....  Gosh, where do I get the time?

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2013 was my first adding 3 neighbors to my own house for the show. To keep it simple, each neighbor has 5 channels each. Some videos are on my website, www.NYChristmasLghts.com. Does anyone have any sequences or song suggestions that aren't in my list of songs?

 

Thanks!

Chuck aka WhitePlainsNY

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Mine and the one directly across the street.  Been planning on doing dueling banjo's but haven't got to the sequencing yet.  He has his own controller and I hook into it using ELL's.  Just 16 ch, on his, forget how many I have....

 

-RainyOregonchiStmaS

I thought I had Dueling Banjos, but it was Bluegrass Winter Wonderland.

That kind of inbreeding music is extremely popular here.

Deliverance was filmed about a half hour away in Rabun County GA.

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I thought I had Dueling Banjos, but it was Bluegrass Winter Wonderland.

That kind of inbreeding music is extremely popular here.

Deliverance was filmed about a half hour away in Rabun County GA.

ROTFL :lol:

Dat was funny rite dare!!

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I thought I had Dueling Banjos, but it was Bluegrass Winter Wonderland.

That kind of inbreeding music is extremely popular here.

Deliverance was filmed about a half hour away in Rabun County GA.

 

ROTFL :lol:

Dat was funny rite dare!!

 

 

Made my day guys. That was awesome. Thanks for the Belly laugh.

 

Y'all wouldn' be tawkin' trash 'bout us suthners now, woud ye. I can go get my granny and she's libel to run you over with her Harley :P .

 

 

Disclaimer:

Before I get hunted down, I was born and raised in a little southern Tennessee town of Rockwood, population, a bit over 5,000, so I do have the right to make fun. I'm making fun of myself too, remember.

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Oh, and I forgot... this year I am also planning on doing some Guerrilla Christmas Lighting.  I have a friend who for years has wanted to do animated lighting, but hasn't had the funds.  So I snagged a used Mr. Christmas, and will be building 6 mini trees to set in his yard in the middle of the night and plugging in as a surprise.  Yea, I know, it's a Mr. Christmas, but putting a 16 channel display in someone's yard in 10 minutes under the cover of darkness wouldn't be easy.  So Mr C. fits the bill on this one.

 

So I guess I will be doing three houses... oh and I also put up some static lights for an older couple in the cul de sac.  So that makes 4...oh... and then I built my father a Pixel Mega tree for his yard, so that makes 5....  Gosh, where do I get the time?

GOD Bless you for doing this!

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I feel putting up lights for my neighbors and seeing their reaction when it gets dark is as gratifying as the light show.
The people I do it for are all pushing 80 except for one guy and he just celebrated 87.
At 45, I am the youngest Floridiot in my neighborhood. And I am glad I can make these old folks smile.

Floridiot: Noun / Adjective - Person from Florida who moved to Western NC and wants to change the way the locals have done things for hundreds of years.

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Rainy, love the Guerrilla Christmas lighting project. More so, would love to have a camera on the folks face when they come out and see the lights in their yard. Great play it forward sort of thing.

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I have myself and 3 neigbors who are on 3 controllers linked, I had to run the CAT5 cable through the sewer to get it across the street.  I have a dueling banjo between 2 houses and 1 house goes dark.  I can send you the file if you want.  I don't have video though.

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I have myself and 3 neigbors who are on 3 controllers linked, I had to run the CAT5 cable through the sewer to get it across the street.

 

Welcome to the Madness I, see it's your second post.  I try to hard to keep my comments out of the sewer.... but you took your lights there?  Wow, Dedication...  Just suggestion from a three season lighter. Try a wireless Easy Light Linker next time.  I and many others use them.  Much cleaner, and you don't have to deal with... with... um yea.  They're just $250 and real easy to setup. 

 

Where are you at? 

We may have a vet near by who could help you with some suggestions or to answer questions. 

 

-RainyOregonchriStmS

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From an IT stand point, wireless is the way to go.

With copper it is best practice to have the same common ground.

When running a network between two building, there is usually Fiber optics between the building then back to copper.

One power spike from your neighbors house power could cost you all of your controlers through the NIC.

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I too use ELL. I could have just used a data cable strung between two utility poles. I get my internet and cable from the pole across the street and everyone watching the show points to it and thinks that's how it's done anyway! I always tell them it's, "magic" but I don't think the believe me. I explain what hardware is involved and I get this dumbstruck, blank stare in return so I hand them a business card with my website on it and I move on to whatever I was doing before.

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I too use ELL. I could have just used a data cable strung between two utility poles. I get my internet and cable from the pole across the street and everyone watching the show points to it and thinks that's how it's done anyway! I always tell them it's, "magic" but I don't think the believe me. I explain what hardware is involved and I get this dumbstruck, blank stare in return so I hand them a business card with my website on it and I move on to whatever I was doing before.

Just tell them you have a few of Santa's Elves on loan from the North Pole and their in the garage flipping light switches to the music and they use candy cane walkie talkies to coordinate all the houses.  I'm sure they'll understand, it makes perfect sense. 

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My wife says I have a sickness, and she wants to find a support group for spouses of LOR owners. She talked to our neighbors and apologized, in advance. They asked her why. My husband feels he needs to have more lights up and has talked about adding your house in. Hey, if I don't have to decorate the house, knock yourself out. The power outlets are right here, have fun. Talk about a happy individual. Glad to see I am not the only one who wants to do other houses, AND am not the only one that thinks dueling banjos would awesome.

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