Papa6058 Posted July 5, 2015 Posted July 5, 2015 I am considering adding 2 arches to my display. I want 4 sections of 4 colors so each arch will be 16 channels. Does anyone know how many lights per foot it takes to wrap 1" PVC pipe? Also maybe a pic or two of how yours looks with the amount of lights you have. Thank youPapa
MikeERWNC Posted July 5, 2015 Posted July 5, 2015 How Long are the arches? I did my chasing fence using Arch instructions/ video. Each 10' section has eight channels and each channel is 100 white LED.I did eighty feet of fence line.It looks great with a few channels lit and blinding with all eighty feet lit.
Mega Arch Posted July 5, 2015 Posted July 5, 2015 I am considering adding 2 arches to my display. I want 4 sections of 4 colors so each arch will be 16 channels. Does anyone know how many lights per foot it takes to wrap 1" PVC pipe? Also maybe a pic or two of how yours looks with the amount of lights you have. Thank you Papa I used 100 LED minis per foot. I don't think you really need that many if you are using LEDs too. As Mike said, at full on can be blinding. I wedged 10ft pieces of 1" PVC in between 8ft fence posts last summer. 3 days in this heat and they were molded into arch form. I drilled holes and fished some SPT cable thru them for the 8 channels. To display in the yard, I use 4ft rebar in the center to tie wrap to at the top. The ends have conduit hanger clamps fastened to them. I then drive 10" gutter spikes into the ground thru those conduit clamps to stabilize. I store them assembled in the attic. https://youtu.be/PVerSKmfGD0
Papa6058 Posted July 5, 2015 Author Posted July 5, 2015 Thank you. I will be using C6 LEDs, but now I may have to scratch this idea seams everyone is using 8 channels which look very good and smooth. Does anyone have pics of wrapped PVC that is not lit? Anyone have vid that is using just four channels peer arch? Papa
EARLE W. TALLEY Posted July 5, 2015 Posted July 5, 2015 Try this for archeshttp://forums.planetchristmas.com/index.php?/topic/53580-easy-arches/
Papa6058 Posted July 5, 2015 Author Posted July 5, 2015 Great Earle, I love your display the 3 mega trees seam to be perfect. I do not yet have a spiral tree but I have plans to put a 10' or 15' one inside my 20' mega tree. Not sure how it will turn out but once I get the controllers and lights I can make it work good somehow Papa
debtoews Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 My arched are individual 1 foot pieces wrapped with lights then slid on some grey pvc thinner pipe- works great cuz if you have a failure you only replace 1 section instead of the whole piece.... our light towers are the same way...
1983ss454 Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 For less then the cost of building arches with led's and ac controllers. 1 set of CCP's and some pex tubing I built 4 arches and can make them any color. These cost less then half of what it would have been for 4 regular led arches. Just an idea
Papa6058 Posted July 10, 2015 Author Posted July 10, 2015 For less then the cost of building arches with led's and ac controllers. 1 set of CCP's and some pex tubing I built 4 arches and can make them any color. These cost less then half of what it would have been for 4 regular led arches. Just an ideaThat's awesome, I know nothing about CCPs I don't even know enough to ask questions. Papa
k6ccc Posted July 10, 2015 Posted July 10, 2015 100% agree on using CCPs into PEX. I'm using 50 CCPs into a 10 foot section of PEX. That lets me run any color, and with 50 active elements, I can run any apparent segment size on the fly.As for cost, if you run four segments of four channels per arch, you use an entire 16 channel controller per arch. A fully assembled CTB16PC controller is $260 plus lights, so your controller and lights cost per arch is at least $275 (if you get a real cheap price on the lights). Yes, you can cut that in about half with a controller kit, but you just added more work. I am using both strings of a CCP set for two arches so even at retail, my controller and light cost is $120 per arch (and I got mine at a spring sale which dropped it under $100 per arch for lights and controllers). and if you go with Ray Wu pixels and a E1.31 controller rather than CCPs, the cost goes down some more.You can see my arches at:http://newburghlights.org/CCP_Arches.html
Papa6058 Posted July 10, 2015 Author Posted July 10, 2015 Thanks Jim, yeah I have do learn about that. I don't know anything from controllers to programming power supply..... Papa
k6ccc Posted July 10, 2015 Posted July 10, 2015 Time to learn. PM me with a phone number if you want to chat on the subject.
tjflory Posted July 10, 2015 Posted July 10, 2015 My arched are individual 1 foot pieces wrapped with lights then slid on some grey pvc thinner pipe- works great cuz if you have a failure you only replace 1 section instead of the whole piece.... our light towers are the same way...Same here for my arches and sticks. Takes less than a minute to change a failed section. T
Papa6058 Posted July 11, 2015 Author Posted July 11, 2015 Time to learn. PM me with a phone number if you want to chat on the subject.Thank you I will. I have 3 grand kids this weekend I am band from Christmas lights this weekend Papa
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