Crimson Lane Lights Etown

I purchased both warm white and cool white strings. The cool white looks more like the C9 strobes when they fire (flash). I mixed them into my show this year as they also come in colors. Love the Red and Green. I added red strobe strings as well as green strings over top of colored bulbs. The ones I bought are dimmable and full wave as well as sealed. Certainly worth the $25 per 100 5mm string. Must acquire more. I use two strings of 100 to run up a flag pole attached to a star for the annual star raising that I do. Strobes are in the middle and hard to photograph. You get the idea. See photo. Here's the link to the lights. 5mm Super Spark Strobe String

Hey Mike, I mount the LOR controller on the mega tree pole and run custom made spt1 wire and vamp plugs to the channels. Nothing special. Wires sit on the ground. I can raise or lower the box on the pole to get the connections off the ground but not the wires. I also use LED lights so I removed one power cable from the LOR box and put in a jumper. 32 strands of 100 count m6 do not draw much juice.

All strobes and/or strobe items should be on one channel. They only work as ON/OFF. Nothing else. Xenon vs. LED: They should not be ON for an extended period of time (like 30 seconds). LED are different but I treat them as Xenon. If you look at videos of others, you'll see brief strobe usage not extended usage. I turn them on at the end of songs mostly but there are many times inside a song that they can be used. Do what you want. I also start them ON a few .10 of a second early and let them ON a few .10 of a second longer so they fire on time. Check out Larsen Lights on youtube if you want to feel inferior regarding strobes since they have 2500 of them on their house. You only have 5. When you get more than the channel can handle in AMPS, of course you can put them on two channels and copy and paste. I have been doing this for a while, I have 65 strobes, all on one channel, still!

Bring all the controllers you are using up to the latest firmware version.(LOR home page under support) Stick with S4 until the issues are resolved. Gen3 controllers will work with HS red adapter (backward compatible). Gen2 will not.

Is your network speed configured properly? Did you add controllers this season, are they G3. Are you using a red adapter? Are they all on one LOR REG network? Are the RGB Pixie2 (4, 8, 16) configured to run BRG? What software are you using, S4, S5, xlights? Make sure your sequences are clean and no timing blocks are filled in unexpectedly that may cause random flashing. Just a few ideas to check.

Tonight is light up! And it's pouring down rain with ice expected! Yeah December! I have to go get as many connections off the ground as possible...I think a winter lager would make it all better. Have Fun tonight!

In S4, when you create a sequence or animation, before you save it, drop down menu PLAY > LOOP AT THE END, then save it. Try That. Also, if you create a show, show builder, you can add the sequence or animation as many times as you want it to play. Just keep adding it.

If you go to Home > Clubs > LOR Sequence Exchange you may find a few. Also an email is nice to have when sending .lms files. Looking forward to move video of the show.

When Frozen came out, seems years ago, I was very slow at getting myself to come on board with "Let It Go!" I'm in my 50's. That's not even a Christmas song. Where am I going to put it in the show? It was like the most requested song and I ended up adding it three times in the five hour show. Now Frozen 2, Into the Unknown. I spent 10 hours programming this puppy. There better be a poop load of requests! Who else is going "Into the Unknown? Are you with me?

Use to start Friday night after thanksgiving with a few songs on thanksgiving night while the family was here for dinner. I now run December First to Jan 1. Not many come around between Thanksgiving and December. I use to run until the 12th day of Christmas, but once school resumes traffic drops to zero.

joshua, is there a screen you can take out and insert a pvc frame?

Window frames, Roof Star mounts, arches, leapers, all pvc. PVC good!

Bring on the snow!

As the years pass, the better/smarter at sequencing I get. This year I added 2 50wRGB floods. Since they are on the opposite side of the house, I will give them the same controller numbers. They will do whatever the already sequenced song says! Additionally, If I can cut a .mp3 from four minutes to two-ish, then sequence, that obviously saves time. Also, a pattern in sequencing has been established, i.e. the bushes are always the beat or the stars are always the cymbal crash. Stuff like that. The first couple if years I went wild and sequenced songs that took all summer. Now I may add one or two songs yearly.

Do I have too? Older kids say no, younger kids say yes! My gut says go with Boom Chicka Christmas after I cut the mp3 down to two minutes. Boom Chicka Boom Christmas before cut down What do you think? Ross