C6 LED Grass Border

[Big Sanch Mafia]

There year i am going to run a border of Red, Green, blue LED C6 strings along my grass to make a border. i would like each bulb to stand up straight.

any ideas? The only one i can think of is to staple each string to a pice of 1x3, stapling by each side of the light to get it to stick up. Then drill a hole at the top, middle and bottom of the 1x3 so i can put a steak or rebar into the wood to hold it to the grass.

any one have any other ideas or ideas to improve on mine?

 

Thanks Chad

[Don]

Google 'Christmas light stakes'

Much, much, much easier.

[ericm]

so i did my entire yard with c9's this year.  I used about a 1/2 by 1/2 piece of wood i cut, painted black.  And ran the strings on the wood, I used a combination of zip ties and a staple gun to attach to the wood.  I used light stakes into the ground and zip tied the wood to the stakes, that were placed about every 3-4 feet.  big key here.....I used a string to line up the stakes first, and then attached the wood to the stakes.  My entire outline of the yard, driveway, flowerbeds I did this way... about 400' of c9's.

I am looking at upgrading the wood to metal electrical conduit, but its about 20 times the cost but looks like it will hold up for the long haul better. 

[Mr. P]

I am doing the same thing this year with smart pixels with the C9 globes on them. I have 500 of them on order spaced 12 inches apart and I am planning on using 1x2 painted black with 10 inch nails staked through them so I can keep them straight.

[k6ccc]

Ooooh, Mr. P you just gave me an idea. I have about 500 GE Color Effects bulbs that don't currently have a purpose in life. I would not need anywhere near 500, but I could use around 120 of them. Better yet, there is a SanDevices E6804 controller right there with three spare outputs.

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[Big Sanch Mafia]

On 5/6/2016 at 2:51 PM, Don said:

Google 'Christmas light stakes'

Much, much, much easier.

Thanks Don, I thought about those and i have some test. best part there is that i can leave the bulbs attached and roll the strings up at the end of the year. 

 

Thanks

[Big Sanch Mafia]

On 5/6/2016 at 3:32 PM, ericm said:

so i did my entire yard with c9's this year.  I used about a 1/2 by 1/2 piece of wood i cut, painted black.  And ran the strings on the wood, I used a combination of zip ties and a staple gun to attach to the wood.  I used light stakes into the ground and zip tied the wood to the stakes, that were placed about every 3-4 feet.  big key here.....I used a string to line up the stakes first, and then attached the wood to the stakes.  My entire outline of the yard, driveway, flowerbeds I did this way... about 400' of c9's.

I am looking at upgrading the wood to metal electrical conduit, but its about 20 times the cost but looks like it will hold up for the long haul better. 

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