Shining Bright 2011

Category 6:  240 volt countries
 

70		Allan Hepworth,  Cashion Court, ACT, Australia, Category 6, This is one of six houses that displays Christmas lights in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory in Australia that have synchronized their light display to music. The display is all low voltage LED lights and has around 16,500 lights using 192 Light O Rama channels. The display is considered one of the best and is a must see for local residents. Spectators can tune their vehicle radio to the specified channel to listen to the music in their car or listen to the music outside of their vehicle from the speakers mounted on the house.
74		John Were, Lota, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Category 6, This is our first attempt at  a Light O Rama display. I started from scratch after learning about Light O Rama on the Internet in about May of this year.  After starting with squares, I had the idea of using diamond shapes to be able to get horizontal and vertical patterns.  The sequencing, although time consuming, was not hard once I worked out what I wanted to do and how to do it   Each diamond has 70 LEDs of Blue, Red and Green. Other light strings are overlayed and there are twenty strobes behind that shine through.  Being involved in scaffolding the tree is constructed from aluminum scaffolding tube with shade cloth stretched across it. It is about 6 metres (20 feet) high  Four CTB PC16 controllers are in the tree linked to a fifth in the garage. All are coupled by cat 5 cable to a computer inside the house.  We have not advertised at all but the response has been great with more people showing up every night to our eleven 15 minute shows.   Unfortunately the video(s) do not do it justice but I hope you can see how it works.
150		BEN DILLON, EPSOM, VICTORIA, Australia, Category 6, This is our second year at LOR - after some disasters last year we were very happy with our attempt for 2011. Our display is quite small - with only 4000 LEDs, 20 floods and over 350 meters of cable, but our small town in Australia were thrilled! We were in the local newspaper, on the local radio station and had our small little street clogged with cars for the entire month of December - and raised over $600 for our local Children's Hospital in the process! Our children loved our lights too - with our 2 year old, Emily, almost better timed then the "Schedule Editor", with her running to the front windows at the start of the show each night screaming "lights on! lights on!"... Thank you for a fantastic product that I have used to thrill thousands of people this Christmas!
158		Nathan Berting, Dalby, Qld, Australia, Category 6, Our computerised Christmas light display uses 4 1602w 16 Channel controllers. During early 2011 Dalby (Our home town) in Australia experienced major flooding 5 times. We were lucky our display was not damaged. Our video link below contains our flood tribute video that runs prior to our Christmas Light show (Total of 6.5mins). This video was screened on a video screen at the start of each show, therefore meaning that our lights this year were synched to a video rather than just mp3. Hope you enjoy the video of lightsoncharles to see how we do it in Australia.
165		COLIN Rowe, mossley, lancashire, United Kingdom, Category 6, This is my first year of using Light-o-Rama hardware and software.  Decided to do a Halloween as I am not big on Christmas. Used 2, 16 channel controllers and coded a number of Halloween songs using some basic sequences found on the net as a base to start.  I also used a skull with a 24v solenoid driven by the light o rama hardware, this took some time to sort, but thanks to a great forum I managed to iron out some minor problems. I also used the same method to drive a smoke machine.  I spent so much time with the show I only had my mobile phone to record it with so the quality is not too good.  We did 3 nights and raised money for a local charity. We had a great time and I am looking forward to next year. The set up and programming is quite easy once you get into it.  I hope you like my first effort.  Thanks  Colin Rowe. UK
181		Geoff Harvey,  Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Category 6, Christmas lights synchronized to the music of "Wizards in Winter" by Sinnamon Lights in Brisbane Australia. While use of this music is considered overdone by the lights community, it is still one of the most popular for my viewers. With the mild weather we experienced before Christmas in 2011, it was quite common to have more than 100 visitors standing/sitting on the footpaths opposite the display. This sequence builds to a climax with all my separate coloured lights twinkling at the end (this does not show well in the video), and it became quite normal for the audience to break out with spontaneous applause. Initially this came as an unexpected surprise, but was very flattering.   My rendition uses about 80,000 lights mostly LEDs controlled by Light-o-Rama hardware and software using 430 DC channels + 80 AC channels together with 6 CCRs along the roofline. RGB LED modules and dumb strip have been added in 2011 to various fixtures and the strip is also used as a wall wash.
185		Raman Jogi, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India, Category 6,  This is the first time in India as we are effectively synchronized the festival lights with the music using Light-O-Rama 48 channel controllers and 35000 LED.Entire display has been set up with help from LOR forum guidance and DIY kit. It take 10 days to sequence 20 Christmas carols and three Hindi (Indian Music).
243		Jamie  Taylor, Warwick, Queensland, Australia, Category 6, My wife Rosemary and I jointly program and prepare the songs for the light show. We do a total of 8 songs for the year and alternate 4 songs alternate nights. The 4 songs last for approx 10 mins then we have all the lights on static for 20 mins. During the 20 mins static time we also have a walk through Nativity in the back yard.
245		Ryan Lissner, Salisbury East, South Australia, Australia, Category 6, 26,000 lights controlled by 144 Light-O-Rama channels are the bare details that make up this South Aussie Christmas display.  The objective this year was to refine previous sequences to be even more responsive to the accompanied music and also address some safety concerns by halving the amount of mains power 240v control in favour for much safer DC control. This was particularly important because the display is a walkthrough display - people walk close to or in some cases under lights and cables. The ground work for DC operation was done last year so this was relatively painless particularly as Australian lights are nearly always low voltage anyway!  The popular Pirates of the Caribbean song He's A Pirate was the new addition to the 2011 display this year and received a positive response from the spectators.  I'm a student with a student budget - I could do more with more money thrown in, but isn't this the case for all of us?  Check me out, RYAN'S CHRISTMAS LIGHTS, at http://www.ryanschristmaslights.com
315		Thomas Voss, Mayen, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany, Category 6, Hello everybody at LOR,  first of all we wish all of you a happy new year 2012  This is the “Voss Christmas Lights” Display. We are a family of four from Mayen Germany and 2011 was the 3rd year that we combined our display with a charity-event. At closing we were able to hand over donations of more than 6.000.-$ to benefit kids in need.   The whole display runs on 220V, is controlled by 3 LOR units and we are using 47 channels. Our small display has only 18.405 lights but, as many visitors say: “a beautiful harmony of colours”.   We heartily invite you to visit our website www.lightadream.de if you like to see more Videos of our lights in action.  Best regards from Mayen, Germany  The Voss Family,  Thomas, Dagmar,  and our daughters Janine and Kim
333		Tom Houts, Asten, Noord Brabant, Netherlands, Category 6, About 3 years ago we decided to make our little front garden much brighter during the Christmas time and to do something with the lights that only a few people in Europe do. We purchased 3 Light-O-Rama controllers in the VS  to do so. Now 3 years later we got more and more visitors to watch the Christmas lightshow. This year the steel star with the tails and the strobe lights where edited. Unfortunately we ran out of channels so we had to improvise. The temporary solution was to ad relays to 8 channels to make the show complete. Next year we have to ad more Light-O-Rama controllers for the lightshow. In our lightshow we have used about 5500 Christmas lights. 4000 lights are LED and the rest are mini lights. The show is expanded with a beamer in a waterproof casing for outdoor video projection. The whole lightshow with the video and sound is controlled by a small computer. The S2 Light-O-Rama software runs the lights, video projector and the audio very smoothly. Synchronization of the Miracle on 34th street took about 25 hours before it was completely done including the video in the show. The whole lightshow has 20 songs with video and the duration is about one hour.  Many people asks us who we make the lights dance to the music and in so may different ways. It’s fabulous they say. Light-O-Rama begins to become well-known in the Netherlands because of our LOR Christmas lightshow and a little few other Light-O-Rama users in our country. We’ll hope that we can go on for years for all those people in those days. Next year a new show and who knows a whole lot more ideas.  Everyone a very nice Light-O-Rama year and thanks for all the support from America.  Greetings,  Tom and Marielle  Asten, The Netherlands  More information about our christmas Lightshow can be found on our website: http:www.kerstlichtshow.eu  The website is also made in english.