Al Saunders

HI Everyone, I'm sure most of us do our over the top displays and light shows because we enjoy seeing them and our family members do too but you never know who will stop by out front of your house to see your lights. My wife and I, unfortunately, recently were at our bosses mothers funeral. Her husband hired us over 20 years ago and he passed away in 2013. He was a great guy. The lovely lady that recently passed was one of the sweetest and kindest persons I have ever known. Anyway, while at the visitation before the service we were talking to our bosses wife, we have been friends with the family for many years. In passing she said they took her out to see our lights this past season. We weren't home otherwise they would have stopped in. She then thought about it for a second and told us she's pretty sure that was the last thing they did together as a family before she got sick (again). She battled cancer extremely bravely for about 8 years. She's with Jesus now because we learned she accepted him as her Lord and Savior more than 10 years ago! If really hit me latter that our Christmas light show was there so this family can have that as one of the last fond memories of her. True I love making the lights blink but I absolutely love knowing that people are enjoying our show. If Chuck Smith hasn't told you or you haven't read it in his magazine articles let me tell you this. What we do matters! Yes, have fun but it's also a bit serious. Remember you are making life long memories for the people and especially the kids watching your show. Know that 10, 15 even 20 years from now some person will ask their mother or father "Hey, remember that house you took us to back when we were kids?" "We loved doing that!" I don't mean to bring anyone down just wanted to share something that touched my heart and really made me feel good. Hope everyone has a blessed night/day. Al

Hi Fro8888, You need to plug in each CCR and run the hardware utility. When you hit refresh it will find the only controller on your network which will be the CCR you have plugged in. You then need to assign it a unit id/controller number. Once you have all 6 CCR's assigned with an unit id when you connect all your controllers both regular 16 channel controllers and your CCR's the hardware utility will see all your controllers. Hope this helps. Al

Hey Everyone, sorry I missed it but it looks like you guys had a good time. I will make sure to be there next year and hope to have some good pictures and video of our display. Al

Hi Andy and crew, Unfortunately it turns out I won't be able to make it this year. I have some church obligations this weekend on both Saturday and Sunday so I need to be there. Sorry my meatballs won't be part of the awesome pot luck lunch we have every year but I'll be sure to be there next year. I already told Paul I can't make it. Hope everyone has a great time. Take care, Al

Hey Everyone, the "Yankee" from MD will be there again this year! LOL I'll meet up with Paul again and I'll have my famous BBQ meatballs too. See you all on the 19th. Al

Hey Hotrod,. Thanks, I've ordered from you guys before and have been very happy. I'm probably going to order 12 strings of several color C6 strings while your sale is on. Again, thanks for the input. Have a great day. Al

Hey Hotrod,. Thanks, I've ordered from you guys before and have been very happy. I'm probably going to order 12 strings of several color C6 strings while your sale is on. Again, thanks for the input. Have a great day. Al

Hi Everyone, I was wondering if anyone knows of a place to get non-dimmable/half wave LED light strings from? The reason is I ask this is part of our display is static and I want to wrap some tree trunks and lower branches but wanted to see about lower cost but still good quality light strings. I'd prefer sealed like the full wave ones we use in our animated part of our display. Thanks, Al

Hi Droptop306, If you are running a basic LOR show and don't immediately plan to jump into the use of many LOR Cosmic Color devices and/or pixel props a basic laptop/desktop will work. I would think anything made within the last few years should be fine. I would check with the LOR site as to their recommendations for system requirements to be sure. You may find that S4 would be a better start than the new S5. As for license level that is really up to you as far as how many controllers are you planning on having. Look over their license comparison so you can see which will work best for you. I can tell you most of us find that the basic level gets obsolete VERY quickly. Hope this helps and welcome to the addiction! Al

Sure, In the tools at the upper left of the sequence editor is a tab called play. Click on it and at the very bottom is an option for speed. Drop down to speed and hover over it and you'll see the default of normal and slower and faster options. I use this all the time especially trying to find beats. Hope this helps. Later, Al

I love LOR. It's a bit of a learning curve but you can easily start with either free or better yet LOR sequences and have a few premade ones to use this year. If you use LOR sequences and if other ones either bought or free are programmed to the "LOR" way/layout then they will work and look great. Look up on their website about the approach in decorating. I know some people are like the "4X4 doesn't work for me or my display." And I get that for someone that has 5 trees or 6 bushes but since you'd be just starting out you could layout your display to follow the 4X4 way of setting up the channels and the LOR sequences will look great because they are programmed/sequences based on that principal. The most important thing is to have fun and make life long memories for your viewers. Later, Al