Building arches

[aaron1sabine]

Looking for a bit of help.

Im a newbie. Got my CTB16PCG3 controller last year and just had a few rope lights pluged in with a few animal shapes and ow i wanted to do some faces and i was just looking to build the arches and was wondering whats the best way to do them?

IE; PVC pipe with several sections of lights space even apart or is there an easyier way to do them.

Note im am across the pond in the UK so i have my controller set up to 240v and changed all the plugs to fit the three pin plugs we have over here.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Mega Arch]

Here's mine:

 

[aaron1sabine]

Thank yo so much. Going to head down to the builders shop tomorrow and get the pipe and order the lights up.

[lkcubsrule]

In addition to the post above, there's a lot of people around here who do them, and a lot of information.  So I've tried to syndicate several different means:

• PlanetChristmas article on building them.
• A quick Google search reveals several options.
• An earlier LOR forum post on how they're built.
• Richard Holdman's video on making a light arch.
• Another PlanetChristmas post on making "easy arches".

The vast majority of people wind 6-8 strings of 100ct lights around some sort of flexible piping.  Each string is then individually connected to separate LOR channels.  Many choose to run wiring on the pipe beforehand  as to avoid an ugly mess of wires.  It's a pretty basic concept, and therefore no "standard" exists.  It really depends on your preference for arch height, length, channel capacity, and the amount of time you want to spend on them.

[Vince4xmas]

I built (4) this year using Matt Johnson's design. The tubing used is critical to the prop's display appearance.

 

[aaron1sabine]

Thanks for your help

going to start on these tomorow 

[k6ccc]

I know this is not really what you are looking for, but I'm going to add it because sometime later you might want to look this direction, or someone else reading this thread may want to.  I built mine with PEX pipe with 50 CCP pixels in each one.  Details and photos on my web site:

http://newburghlights.org/CCP_Arches.html