Jump to content
Did you know?
  • The original Rudolph did not have a red nose. In that day and age, red noses were seen as an indicator of chronic alcoholism and Montgomery Ward didn’t want him to look like a drunkard. To complete the original picture, he was almost named Reginald or Rollo.
  • The Christmas wreath was originally hung as a symbol of Jesus. The holly represents his crown of thorns and the red berries the blood he shed.
  • The three traditional colors of most Christmas decorations are red, green and gold. Red symbolizes the blood of Christ, green symbolized life and rebirth, and gold represents light, royalty and wealth.
  • Tinsel was invented in 1610 in Germany and was once made of real silver.
  • The oldest artificial Christmas trees date back to the late 1800s and were made of green raffia (think grass hula skirts) or dyed goose feathers. Next the Addis Brush Company used their machinery that wove toilet brushes to create pine-like branches for artificial Christmas trees that were less flammable and could hold heavier decorations.
  • ‘Jingle Bells’ – the popular Christmas song was composed by James Pierpont in Massachusetts, America. It was, however, written for thanksgiving and not Christmas.
  • Coca-Cola was the first company that used Santa Claus during the winter season for promotion.
  • Hallmark introduced their first Christmas cards in 1915.
  • The first recorded date of Christmas being celebrated on December 25th was in 336, during the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine. A few years later, Pope Julius I officially declared that the birth of Jesus would be celebrated on that day.
  • Santa Claus's sleigh is led by eight reindeer: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Dunder (variously spelled Donder and Donner), and Blixem (variously spelled Blixen and Blitzen), with Rudolph being a 20th-century inclusion.
  • Outdoor Christmas lights on homes evolved from decorating the traditional Christmas tree and house with candles during the Christmas season. Lighting the tree with small candles dates back to the 17th century and originated in Germany before spreading to Eastern Europe.
  • That big, jolly man in the red suit with a white beard didn’t always look that way. Prior to 1931, Santa was depicted as everything from a tall gaunt man to a spooky-looking elf. He has donned a bishop's robe and a Norse huntsman's animal skin. When Civil War cartoonist Thomas Nast drew Santa Claus for Harper's Weekly in 1862, Santa was a small elflike figure who supported the Union. Nast continued to draw Santa for 30 years, changing the color of his coat from tan to the red he’s known for today.
    • Christmas 2018 countdown has already begun. Will you be ready??? Why do we love Christmas? It's all about the traditions. In this chaotic world we can miss the "good old days." Christmas reminds us of that time.

    Streetrodder

    Members
     View Profile  See their activity

    • Content Count

      450

    • Joined

    • Last visited

    Community Reputation

    0 Neutral

    4 Followers

    About Streetrodder

    • Rank
      Senior Member
    • Birthday 06/12/1971

    Profile Information

    • Location
      Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA
    • Interests
      Street Rods, Drag Racing, Lighting
    • Occupation
      Engineer

    Recent Profile Visitors

    The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

    1. Streetrodder
      I updated my LOR to S5 this year and my Mega Tree quit working so we have tried everything to fix it. While trying something today, opening S5 not saving anything because nothing appeared to be working and when I closed it now none of my lights are working. My controllers are just blinking. I can go into the hardware and hit refresh and they will stop blinking and I can even manually pick lights but when I close it they start blinking again? Is it something with my Comm 3? Anything helps!!!
    2. Vinny the Elf started following Streetrodder
    3. Streetrodder
      We have about 100,000 lights and 272 Channels of Light-O-Rama and a 2700 Channel RGB Pixel Tree. This is our 9th year doing animated lights, we added our neighbors house this year and have plans to add another neighbor or two next year.
    4. Schuyler Gore started following Streetrodder
    5. Streetrodder started following Schuyler Gore
    6. Streetrodder
      I read all the literature over at AUSChristmas Lighting Forums and asked questions several times but I tried it this year and I loved it. It has a little learning curve but it is not hard at all and if you do it yourself you can save a lot over the other options.
    7. Streetrodder
      If they get the right product and right price.
    8. Streetrodder
      I am using the J1SYS ECG-P12R which uses E1.31 (LOR's advanced program has this).
    9. Streetrodder
      Anyone else, I tried talking with Laurie but she just keeps referring to the tube lights and that's not what I want.
    10. Streetrodder
      and highly recommended!
    11. Streetrodder
      Blue as well for me.
    12. Streetrodder
      Welcome back Bobby. This was my first year using RGB Pixels and I highly recommend the products listed below, several people have used them with good results. I don't know as much about others but I know this works. Below is an IM I received from one of the guys at the forum Mcas mentioned above. ""Now the system i personally would look at for that tree is (assuming you already have the LOR version with E1.31) ECG-P12R, will give you upto 12 universes of lighting, so you could use 8 outputs for your tree with 2 strings per output and then have options for adding other intelligent
    13. Streetrodder
      Bill, can you give us an idea about pricing and maybe any spec on them? They don't list prices on anything.
    14. Streetrodder
      Thank you they are $89.95 about half of what the other vendor told me. I might try looking into building some, I just need to figure out the control aspect.
    15. Streetrodder
      Great, have you thought about maybe sending out an informational e-mail on big announcements if you have an easy way of doing this?
    16. Streetrodder
      Has anyone seen these, I checked with this vendor but they were a little on the pricey side. I was hoping to possibly find them a little cheaper.
    17. Streetrodder
      Is there anything we need to do if we have made and use effects from the old site?
    18. Streetrodder
      Go with Ray Wu aliexpress I don't think you will get that there, at least I hope it wasn't him, doesn't sound like something they would do. I've had good results using Ray and he understands our hobby because so many in our hobby have purchased from him.
    ×
    ×
    • Create New...