They are approx. 10' apart and total distance of arch (I'll have to measure) ... but its around 14' or so.
THe bend is no problem at all ... esp. since I'm allowing them to bend in their intended direction, just inside the clear tubing.
The key wa having them face DOWNWARD ... which I didn't think would look good, but it does. They still outshine the
other stuff by a large margin.
I get 2 arches out of (3) 10' 1/2 emt sections. The strips are inside 5/8 clear tubing and hung with lights facing
downward towards the ground [ on the bottom side of EMT, so gravity is your friend and not your enemy ] .
They are still insanely bright, but the tubing and indirect projection seems to diffuse them nicely. The 5/8 tubing allows you to really zip tie them
onto the EMT pipe without crushing them at all and increases grip considerably. I found the larger 8" ties worked better than the 4" ties which don't
have enough grip. I put a zip on the flex strip dotted lines about every 8-10" or so. I cut the tubing into 3 sections so that I could easily fish the tape
through each section. THen I move the tubing as close as I can to each other when installing. Its not water tight, but because of where the cuts are ...
any water that gets in will just drain out down one side of the arch or the other.
I worried a lot about these during the year but they ended being very simple, very easy and very effective. I created 8
groups in LOR S3 for them and sequenced against those for the chases. In reality, the LOR S3 chase then sequenced
the in-between nodes like LSP also does, if the chase is done at the grouped level.
