BMcGeeny

I have approxamately 50,000 incandescent mini lights for sale. All but a couple thousand are used but in good working condition. Used lights are 1 cent each. New are 2 cents each. IE: a 50 count string is $.50, 100 count $1.00 I have Red, blue, green and multi colored. I have a complete set for a 10' mega tree. 24 strands, each with 50 bulbs Red, Blue, Green, Clear. They are designed to use with a 10' high pole. (I used 3" PVC) For a total of 96 50 bulb strand. This set I will only sell together. $48 for a complete mega tree. I also have multiple 100 and 150 bulb strings that were on mini trees. I have red, blue, green 100 bulb strings. I have 4 sets of 8 50 bulb strings that were on 10' 3/4" PVC for arches. They have had the plug in leaders extended for fit to arches and direct plug in to a controller without extension cords. I have a few clear, green, red and blue 1/2 rope light. Some 18' for $5 and 30' for $7.50. These are brand new. I also have about 6 300 bulb Icicles, Green, Blue, Clear and Multi colored. Also 1 cent per bulb. I have 4 candi cane poles 4' high with clear/red rope lights. I have nine used and one new wireframe deer I will be taking the lights off. Good replacement strings for yours that are out. A bunch more excess stuff I no longer use. If your looking for it ask. I am in Rochester Mn and It would be best if you are close and can stop by and pick up. But if you have interest in something I will pull it out of bins, test and post a picture before I ship. To see the display http://www.youtube.com/user/shermanreynolds#p/a/u/1/6YxKN2lsyPY Jeff

You'll have to show up and find out.

I be there!!!!!!!!!!

I'll be there. Yes. it's me. I'm still alive. I plan to do my entire settup in one day. Last year 12 of us did it in 3 hours. Cost me $65 in pizza though. November 6, 10:30 your all invited to help.

Can you say SUNBURN

Since the LOR are only 16 channels I would start with 20. You can allways work up from there.

That's right, never throw lights away. In every dead string there is at least 22' of 22 Gauge wire. I have bundles of that wire from old dead strings. I just cut the wire out of the string. Then when I make up my string I solder a 22' extension (or whatever I need) to the end of my string. I had 16 Gauge cords that went to the controller, and all my controllers have 6' to 15' pigtails and all my props have 6' to 22' leads on them. With 320 channels and about 400 plugs, I used less than 2 dozen 18 gauge extension cords other than the controller power. Next year with a little better planning I should be down to less than 6.

Just keep in mind that the July 4th is on a Sunday this year and that may tie a lot of people up the last weekend in June. (9 day vacation) A week before would be better.

I'm still waiting a couple more years. The Box Store LED are crap, look like crap, and fail. The vendor's that sell "top quality" have even had problems with their product. Think back to the early 60's. All our lights were C7 and C9. I remember Mini lights first coming out. They were crap. Dad bought some and half way through the year pulled them off the tree and put the C7's back up. Now we accept them and know how to fix them just the way they are. In a few years LED's will be all we have and we will learn how to fix them and the quality will be up and the price down. Until them I have about 100,000 replacement bulbs saved, all kinds of peices and parts, and 90% of my strings are less than 3 years old. I'm hoping for 5 years before I have to switch. (was at Menards yesterday and they have cleared the shelves of lights and put what is left on one small rack. What they had I could have fit in two shopping carts. I'll wait.

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No LOR here. My controllers are all DIY Renards. Yes, moisture can cause a channel to com on or partially come on. You can cover them with bags and they still may get damp inside. In funky wet weather condensation can form if the board is warmed and cooled. Many times when they dry out everything will be fine. It is possible that a Triac could be fried. I replaced two on one controller tonight. I noticed a couple days ago these would sometimes act up. Finally they were just stuck on at about 50%. Other than the fact that a channel stays on dim, it really should not hurt anything. If the moisture was causing problems with the low voltage side of the electronics you would have more problems than a channel just stuck on. If you have an extra channel, use it. Just remember that there is power on that line all the time. And your issue with the strobe could be similar. Static won't cause a strobe to fire. But high humidity might. Just a trickle of juice going to a strobe would cause it to fire every once in a while. It would not need to be enough to even begin to light LED's or incandecants but a strobe is designed to store up energy and release it when it get to a certain level. Watch how most strobes will fire once or twice after the power is turned off to them.

Way to Go. Good Feeling isn't it.

Yeah I came home tonight and everything was going as planned.

Thanksgiving night, 4:30 PM Central. Has been that wa for over 40 years.