Sean Meighan
General => The Water Cooler => Topic started by: Ralph D on February 25, 2018, 10:48:41 AM
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HI Everyone,
so last season was going to be my first year with a mix of AC lights and pixels using xlights. So in pixels for this year I already have ready to go is a 8ft singing xmas tree, a 15ish foot 16 strand 100 count per string mega tree, 6- 40 count mini spinners, 10 holiday coro rev 1 candy canes, 4- pex tubing pixel arches. So the help or advice I need is I want to add one more thing but Id like it to be something that will help all these things look great all together and not just a bunch of pixels thrown in on top of my AC lights. I also have 35 wire frames with all incandescent mini lights on them, so switching my frames to pixels or even just led's well that alone is a ton of time and money which is not in my cards right now. also i do have a lot of dumb pixel strips 5v and about 15 or more ws2812b 12v and 5v pixel strips. I have about 30ish sets of 100 count ws2811 square pixels in 12v and about 8 sets of ws2811 bullet pixels in 5v. also have a unused falcon controller with all the power and expansion boards and 4 extra sands 6804 all ready to go. so with all my extra pixels I have some decisions and choices and I just would like them to be good ones so can anyone help me choose. here are my ideas.
1) Do my driveway arches in pixels
2) Redo my snowflakes on the roof in pixels
3) Make my mega tree 32 strings instead of 16 or make a second mega tree
4) Do all my windows in pixels there's 11 of them and my 3 wreath's
5) Make 12 mini trees
6) Do my entire house outline in pixels
7) Do Icicles above all my windows and gutters
So these are my ideas. I am open to here anyones thoughts if you have other ideas,
so which one do you think makes the most sense to do next.
Thanks
Ralph
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It would really help if you posted a pic of your home. ;D
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included is a photo of my house.
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Not to be too nit picky, can you post 1 pic of just your house and yard? I think it would make it easier for us to visualize.
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suggest outline of house , windows next year etc
Cheers Boof63
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Hi not sure why, but I am unable to post the photo, i even cropped it. any idea why.
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lets try this
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this should be better to look at.
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I would think that as suggested, outlining your house, including your roof line, would really set your display off.
p.s. are those Azaleas? Beautiful!!
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Thank you Randy I appreciate it. Would you use strips or would you use the square pixels Ingis Them with C9 caps. Or would you do strips down the edges of the house to outline it and use the WS 2811 square nude with the sea nine as the roof outline I have those two choices I have plenty of the pixel nudes and I have plenty of the pixel strips to do the house outline this year. I would just need to be recommended to a place that would sell the sea nine caps for the square pixels.
Randy and yes those are azalea bushes. I’ve had the house for 24 years and I met recently the homeowner before me and they had the house for about 15 years in the Eisele your bushes were there the whole time they live there and they were the second owner so to my knowledge they are over 40 years old at least the big one in front of the house It’s matching partner which used to be on the left side of the house caught some kind of fungus and had to be removed But thank you for asking
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I would use the Chroma Strips (https://www.boscoyostudio.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=63&zenid=kdhentuhdhar5m55c6d5einp07) from Boscoyo Studios to mount bullet nodes along your gutter, and probably square nodes zip tied to PVC to outline your roof line and along the sides of the house. You could also use the chroma trim for these, but you could save a few bucks by using zip ties.