Hi all, so I guess this is where I should post my thought for a Christmas display and get some help with what I will need to implement. I know there is not much time left to do this, so I'm really undecided about whether or not I can get this done in time. So please don't spend a lot of time on details, really just kinda looking for ballpark estimates on time and expense and see if I am understanding this stuff at all.
I have a row of 12 6ft alberta spruce that border the front edge of my yard, I would like these to be able to be controlled individually, so that they can chase back and forth, turn on and off as a group, or in smaller groups of say 3 or 4. I'm guessing that these would take one channel for each spruce, or 12 channels of the 16 available on the Lynx express?
I would want to make a large, say maybe 20ft tall cone shaped christmas tree, it would probably need at least 8 "legs", or strings of lights to it with some kind of light or decoration at the top. I would want it to be able to have individual legs chase, turn on and off as a group or in smaller groups. It would work pretty much the same as the trees above, but instead of controlling the individual tree it would control one "leg" of the big tree. I guess that would take 8 more channel'S. so I'm up to 20 channels allready? Would be really cool if I could have the tree be sometimes blue, sometimes white, sometimes multicolored. But that would take 3 strands of lights for each leg and use 3 channels for each leg? For a total of 24 channels just for the tree. Is that correct?
On the front of my house would be pretty simple, just 3 or 4 strands of icicle lights of different colors, maybe a couple colored light cans for background.
So i guess I need one dongle, and at least 2 lynx express dimmers? Don't need any SSr's cause they're built into the lynx express?
Anyway don't know if I'm asking too much or not, so excuse me if I did. I just joined today and I see that I need to decide quickly if I can do this or not as I saw that there is very little time left to get in on the Lynx express coop.
Thanks for your help and patience.
Tom
ps accidentally started this message as a "new poll" I don't think it went through, but if it did please ignore.