Thunder/ lightning sequence

[Eric walls]

Anybody willing to share or know where I can find a good thunder/lightning sequence? I have the one from Wowlights but I haven't really been happy with it.

[Orville]

Are you looking for one for standard incandescent or LED strings for an AC controller(CTB16PC)? 

Or for an RGB(smart or dumb) version?

Would definitely help to know what type thunder/lightning sequence you're seeking.

[TheDucks]

I simply slam (100%) anything (Floods, bullets...) capable of White .1, .2, .1   (~500 W of LEDS . My supplies are sized for full load)

(No thunder, but it would be delayed after the flash by a few seconds. You DO NOT want to be close to ground Zero of a strike. It is louder than those Jets that hot rod by occasionally.). 

It lights up a good chunk of the houses on my street . INTENSE (you might be considerate traffic driving at normal speeds. Mine is not a thru street)

[Orville]

With RGB I use a combination of Cyan and White, most lightning I've seen has more of a bluish-white color, sometimes more cyan than white.  I have yet to see an all white lightning bolt, and even the biggest burst has always been more cyan colored than white.

I've watched lightning hit my 66' handicap wrap-around ramp, 1st time it literally skimmed right along the very top handrail/bannister, splintering the wood lightly, and scorched the wood hard, you could smell the wood burn, followed the entire handrail/bannister from where it started all the way up to my front door.  Also took out 2 older CCB100D 5v controllers and 4 strings of RGB 50 node Strawberry C9 nodes.

2nd time it hit the handicap ramp, it took out 3 more CCB100D 5v controllers and 2 strings of RGB Strawberry C9's and 2 strings of RGB bullet nodes.

And, yes lightning does strike twice in the same place, in my case it was THREE times, my ramp has been hit 3 times, all 3 times I saw the strike  and could feel the charge lightly from it, as well as a little of the heat it generated.

So, I've had some very close contact and visuals with lightning, but it was the big, long, very loud thunder, earth rumbling, and house shaking that came afterward that was the unnerving part of it.🫨😵‍💫🤣🤣

And I found a really awesome thunder sound effect I heisted from one of my Find the Hidden Object games that I used years ago for my original all AC INCAN/L.E D. display.

I made a sequence for RGB with it, but it's not been perfected yet, still trying to get it where I want it to be.  Trying to get it as close to the real thing (without the electric charge or heat of course) visually as possible.  Still working on it.

I could get the earth and house shaking rumble, but if I cranked my outdoor speakers up that loud, I'd probably fry them, and if I didn't, I'm sure my neighbors would definitely be complaining on that one.

Edited September 10, 2023 by Orville

[Eric walls]

Ya, it's just the one I have doesn't sound that great.

On Halloween I change my show to do The Shining theme, the exorcist, with Thunder lightning playing as well. I used the Wowlights sequence along with the scary music.

The thunder sound just isn't that rich.

For the lightning effect I have 6 of the 10 watt RGB lights, and 3 LED strobes. Guess I just need to tweak it out a bit and use more of the blue/ pure white color.

I play my sequences normally with my FM transmitter so not wanting to run speakers everywhere I use 2 older boomboxes (if you are under 45 a boom box is a portable radio popular in the 80's) tune them to my frequency and hide them in the bushes.

Leave it alone or try to find a better thunder sound?