It seams like the hype around regular LED's and controllers like the LE are on the decline. It doesn't seam like the LED pre-order talk activity was very high either this year.
Is RGB really this big or is it all hype?
I still have plenty of minis and was contemplating buying a bunch of regular LED's, but I'm wondering if we are going to see RGB LED's start to edge out regular LED's in the animated space.
What are your thoughts? Where are you expanding?
I had 12,100 channels this last season
32 channels of Lynx
12 channels of Aether II's
The rest (12,000 channels) were smart rgb. Rectangular, flex and strings. Megatree was 20x120 flex. Star was 60 smart rgb rectangular nodes. eaves were strings.
My 60 candy canes from walmart were on Lynx Express. I will add some more lynx this year, but mostly i will be adding more smart rgb. I was drawing like 2 amps on the 110v line for each 16 port hub. I ran all my lights on two 15amp circuits.
I originally just had the rgb lights but my wife thought something was missing. so we went and got all the incandescent lights from previous years and put them out.
I have a mailbox that opens and a letter comes out to santa. I got it from home depot maybe 5 years ago. I bought meteor tubes from ebay, 8 for $15. I had 8 strings of 8 or 64 tubes.
I would say half of my "great show" was for either the mailbox or the meteor tubes. So much for the whiz bang nutcracker effects. Most of the adults loved the megatree, but the kids (and they are the final judges , after all) liked the mailbox and the santa in a hot air balloon.
The price of smart rgb continues to drop. 3 years ago they were over $1 each, now they are under $0.40.
I like that i dont have 1000's of feet of SPT2, just cat5.
sean