99 days

[blearning]

33 days ...

First Big day of placing lights was yesterday. No injuries ... SMILE

Light Up status.

Halloween stuff is completed and waiting for tear down after Halloween. Once that is done we can clean up the yard for the last time this year and get started putting the light elements in the yard.

We have the first (my) house almost done, Roof, Eaves, some bushes.  Second house is almost done as well. We need to complete the roof today.   Basically everything that needs a ladder.

We will likely get started on the third, fourth and fifth house today if the weather holds up, now that we have a lot of the stuff out of hiding.

All our premade light elements are ready to go up which will be about the 2nd week of Nov.

When we are done we should have

Light count 150,000 to 200,000 Lights,

5 Houses Synched together

~750 Channels of Lynx and LOR

~64 songs synched to the lights Using Vixen for Synching

[Cobergas]

Yeah yeah yeah yeah.. And the whole "Green" LED element of the display. IT is almost time and almost the weekend. Technically for me I have 4 hours until the weekend and a week of vacation to finish off sequencing and putting up lights and preparing for the Big "show". There is still a lot to accomplish and I think that the next few days are crucial to getting things going in the right direction to get everything done in time for the big switch to be thrown. I hope everyone else is pumped and ready!

[blearning]

Another house almost done, but we added 2 ... my fingers are sore from twisting, tying stretching and pulling and just major putting up of the lights.   Chris and I have been working some long hours, about 7 in the morning until 10 or 11 at night.

But we are progressing well with few ouies to proclaim. 

There is some slow down of the cars and a few stops already starting, as we start to get things working. Not show stuff just making sure everything works before we get out the controllers.

Another couple of days of installations and we should be able to take this one for a test spin.  We will likely get out to Larry's  this weekend as well to set his Monster tree up,  but that really depends on the rain

We will work on house number 5 and 6 tomorrow if the rain isn't too bad.  There is some high winds headed our way as well.



   

[blearning]

Rain Day ...

The Georgia Mafia is having a rain day. 

[KeithTarpley]

Greetings,,,

Oh, deer.  Don't we spend reign days gathering more forces?  The "F Troop" could give up one or two to help sync seven houses.

Keith

[blearning]

in best Mafia Voice, 

 "I don seeth no F troop"   (Cough Cough)  "but they shows their beady eyes around these parts we make use of their fingers or cut them off"  (evil laugh)

(Cough Cough) I make dem an offer they can't refuse .... (another evil laugh)

(Cough Cough) this is the Georgia Santa Lynx Light Mafia and we rule these here parts  (evil Chuckle)  and we ain't talking diet Light

[blearning]

I feel like Man Verses LIGHTS ...

I keep putting them up but there is still more to do ...

[ThaiWay]

I can't imagine Bill...

are they all in straight lines?  

John

[blearning]

Hmm 

Some are, why do you ask?

A quick survey this morning and I am guessing we have likely 75,000 more to put up.  But it is "starting to look a lot like Christmas" around here. 

[blearning]

The little army of controllers, Early Sunday Morning, getting ready for their last update to move out and deploy to DISPLAY, SMYRNA, GA

I am proud of these guys, each one pain-stakingly developed under direct supervision.  It will be a grueling deployment and logistically overwhelming.  From parts from mouser, and other places. Arriving in boxes via UPS and USPS from around the country, but now they are ready to storm the area with all they have.
 
They are excited yet leery of going out into DISPLAY to make blinky flashy.  Some were with tangled cords requiring a little pep talk to come out into the daylight.  They do their best work at night.

Let's roll

[KeithTarpley]

Greetings,,,

That looks great for the first sequence.  What about the others...?

 

[RJ]

   Thats a lot of expresses!!!!

RJ

[Brad]

WOW. That's an ambitious project

Can't wait to see the video.

Brad

[blearning]

  Thats a lot of expresses!!!!

RJ

There are 8 LORs in there, and a bunch of SSRs so they aren't all expresses, but there are 28 Expresses, and soldering them .... Yes I can attest yah that is a lot of controllers!!!

Ambitious YES Indeed.. verging on foolish ... But it was Chris's Idea ... LOL I am blaming him.

Chris helped and Yes we both can't wait for thanksgiving evening to take it for a blinky test.   

[magic8192]

    That is a lot of LE's.