2008 Christmas Lights

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Friday December 12, 2008 // Share on Facebook

I finally took some video of my Christmas lights! If you can’t make it over, here’s a sample:

What’s going on here? Well there are 600 commercial mini-lights in the tree out front. Those are new this year. Just about everything else is the same as last year:

600 Colored mini-net-lights on the front porch railings
600 Colored and white mini-light balls hanging in the porch area
750 White tree wraps around the porch supports
351 White snowflake mini-lights on upper roof
750 White icicle lights on lower (porch) roof
300 Mini lights surrounding the upper windows and wreath
2 lit, molded candy canes with 36′ of candy cane rope lights (432 mini lights)

In all, there are 4,387 lights (but 1 blew out, and I haven’t replaced it yet). Notice the strange movement in the 3rd floor window? That’s Santa:

Like last year, the lights are on from 6-9pm most nights (often later). The music is broadcast over the FM radio, so you can stay nice & warm while you listen to the music & watch the lights.

I’ve got some big changes planned for next year (yes, I’m already planning next year). Merry Christmas!!

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Big Dan said...

That’s awesome Eric! What are you using to control the lights? DMX?
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December 13th, 2008
Eric said...

I’m using the Mr. Christmas Lights & Sounds of Christmas with an FM Transmitter modification added to it. Next year I’m looking to go with either a 16- or 32-channel Light-o-rama controller.
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December 13th, 2008
Rebecky said...

That’s awesome! Does it play other songs too?
Wow!!!
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December 14th, 2008
Jeff said...

How do you project Santa in the window?
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December 14th, 2008
Eric said...

@Rebecky – it plays 40 different songs. Here’s the complete list.

@Jeff – I use the Optima Movietime DVD Projector and shoot the video on a sheet in my office window (which is about 6′ wide, 3′ tall)
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December 14th, 2008
Ian Fernando said...

damn that looks awesome!
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December 15th, 2008
Donald said...

what fm station do you use so i no i like to put it on before i get there.
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December 16th, 2008
Eric said...

Right now it’s 100.5 FM; it’ll probably stay there the rest of the season.
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December 16th, 2008
Salwa said...

That looks awesome!
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December 17th, 2008
Bryn Youngblut said...

Wow man that is freaking awesome! Nice work.
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December 28th, 2008
Donald said...

the light show was nice and i hope to see it again next year
i also think it would be nice to see a halloween light show but that is all up to you.
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January 1st, 2009
Eric said...

Thanks for the feedback, Donald. We thought about working on both Halloween & Christmas, but decided to focus on Christmas. Next year, we’ll already be working on our Christmas display before Halloween even arrives.

Happy New Year!
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January 2nd, 2009