TrevorJCW Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Hello everyone! I thought I would introduce myself and ask my first question all in one post. I am Trevor, I live in the Central New England area, 2016 will be my first official year of LOR software and my first show, I fix computers in my spare time so I am pretty familiar with programming as well. I've always wanted to do a LOR show, just never really dedicated the money to do so. I have actually been wanting to do this for a while now, and have actually created a few sequences on my own to a couple songs just for fun! So my first question is, I currently have a 100 amp service at my house and I plan on starting out small and doing 32 channel LOR set up and slowly work my way up to a 64 channel LOR show. The Residential boxes from what I read allow a maximum of 30 amps. I currently have about 15 to 20,000 LED lights (poor estimate lol) I just don't want to go and buy controllers just to find out I need to upgrade my service panel which is quite expensive. There is a guy online by the name of Jon Storm He had his entire show running on 16 Amps with I think 64 channels or more. So that is my is my big first question. I am sure ill be on here a lot more if I go through with the show. Also Attached a picture of my 2015 show at my house now. Thank you and Merry Christmas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Mitchell Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Hi Trevor,I also have a 100 amp service on my house. I have about 50K of lights with about 10k being LED. If you are going mostly LED, power will not be an issue. I'm only about an hour and a half from you in Claremont. Welcome to the craziness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed K Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Each 100 LED string consumes about 4.8 watts, or .04 Amps (4.8 watts/ 120 volts = .04 amps). So, 10,000 LEDs would consume about 480 watts, or about 4 amps. Your home's smallest circuit might be 15 amps, so you should be able to run off of your existing circuits. A single, 16 channel LOR controller CTB16PC can handle approximately 30 amps (approximately 15 amps on each bank of 8 output cords), and uses only 5 watts itself when it is sitting there, idle. This compares to a 100 string of incandescent mini lights consuming about 40 watts, or approximately 8.3 times the wattage of the LED string. Ed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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