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Offline rdebolt

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All dressed up and nowhere to go!
« on: May 07, 2010, »
OK I am like a kid in a candy store! I just received my PICkit 2, got my Panavise earlier this week and don't have anything to use them on!  :( I am in both of the coops going on now and have ordered everything to build a dongle. Mouser has several parts to the dongle on back order and the coops don't close for a while!  >:( I cannot wait to get to work! I also cannot wait for the Aether!  :'( COME ON LET'S GO!!!! Is anyone else waiting?

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Re: All dressed up and nowhere to go!
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2010, »
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Is anyone else waiting?
This week I have been building three SSR4s from boards that Bill sent to me in July 2008 ... sometimes, you've got to think ahead ;) ...

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Re: All dressed up and nowhere to go!
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2010, »
I know what you mean.  I have built 5 expresses, 2 dongles and on Wednesday of this week I finished my first arch.  This will be my first year.  Got the info off the net and used a "tater twister".  It worked great.  20 foot long and spaced the ends 12 foot apart and it was 7 foot tall.  200 lights per channel for a total of 1600 lights.  It made me smile to run my first sequence through the arch.  Lots more to do and Christmas is just around the corner.

so much fun!

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Re: All dressed up and nowhere to go!
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2010, »
Greetings,,,

If you haven't already, now's a good chance to plan the lights setup and work on the software sequencing.  That can take a while.

Keith
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Re: All dressed up and nowhere to go!
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2010, »
Oh Don't get me wrong I have plenty to do! ;) I just want to play with my new "toys"  ;D

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Re: All dressed up and nowhere to go!
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2010, »
Just so everyone knows, I am only a newbie to this site and DMX. I have over 500 LOR channels and 100,000 lights.  <fp. I built over 70% of my controllers, I am just excited to get into the DMX end of it and put together another 500 channels! Shhhhhhh! Don't let the wife know though!   >:D I'm not supposed to be buying anything new this year!  ;)
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Re: All dressed up and nowhere to go!
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2010, »
Keeping my new purchases from SWMBO worked great for me last year.  Until she got home before me and found a coop box with parts in it waiting for me on the front porch.  What addiction?

Steve

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Re: All dressed up and nowhere to go!
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2010, »
Fortunately I can everything shipped to my business address! ;)