using smartstrings for arches?

[chrisatpsu]

i agree, i ended up deciding to stay outside the pipe.

[MrChristmas2000]

My problem is my arches are right down on the street. I use them as kind of a arch fence to separate the visitors from wandering up into the yard. I would like them to also not be easy to figure out how they are made. Each of the arches are 10 ft between landings and 11+ft in length. I am considering whether that length would be short enough to fish the flex strip through, what do you think. I could use either some sandpaper or paint to make the tubing opaque.

[pk]

mms and I are experimenting with an arch using flexstrips.  We should be able to post a video soon.

[mms]

We used a 10 foot long piece of thin wall PVC bent on a homemade jig.  There are 3 meters worth of flex strip in the pipe.  The nodes are at 50% brightness so that the camera could pick up the color.  We used the xLights RGB test to do the chase.  I think that covers the technical stuff.

Enjoy!

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Steve

[chrisatpsu]

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[MrChristmas2000]

We used a 10 foot long piece of thin wall PVC bent on a homemade jig.  There are 3 meters worth of flex strip in the pipe.  The nodes are at 50% brightness so that the camera could pick up the color.  We used the xLights RGB test to do the chase.  I think that covers the technical stuff.

Enjoy!

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Steve

Can you change the access to the video?

Do you have any assembly photos?

Thanks,

[mms]

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Sorry about that!  It's good to go now! 

Can you change the access to the video?

Do you have any assembly photos?

Thanks,

Usually, I'm much better about documenting the whole process.  Since this was more of an experiment we didn't take photos. 

[pk]

For this experiment we used a 4 meter flexstrip but only 3 meters of it are in the PVC.  The extra meter is hanging out one end!!!  (covered by a blanket in the video)  The arch in the video was leaning against a wall in the basement.  We just wanted to see how it looks.

[taybrynn]

Pk,mms -- looks awesome!

[Timon]

I realize that the camera doesn't always show the true look of the lights but I think that 3/4" or 1" PEX tubing will show the light better than thin wall PVC. The biggest issue will be keeping it stable so it doesn't fall over.


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[taybrynn]

Once you get into PEX ... your talking a lot of $$$ ... to me, the problem isn't worth an expensive solution.

If your a perfectionist, maybe ... but otherwise no way.  The strips look great upside down and in the elements ... mounted onto cheapo $1.49 per 10'  ... 1/2" conduit ... I'm sure in thinwall pvc might be a little better and cleaner ... but at some point you have to say 'good enough'.  Its a personal choice of how sweet is sweet enough.

To me, all this fits into the same category with .... did you hang all your lights perfectly straight?  Sure, it looks better ... but I also dont' have time or bandwidth to make em all perfectly straight. 

Most people won't know the difference, so thats why its up to you to decide when you've done enough to satisfy your own standards.

[smeighan]

I am thinking of making some arches this year. If I do, i will be adding arches to the targets supported by Nutcracker.

I am also thinking of adding a Marty fan as a target supported by Nutcracker.

Has anyone used one of these fans in your display? Was it RGB?

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thanks

[chrisatpsu]

ifi have finances left to attack it this year, i'm implementing rgb fans this year...  if not, it's next years add on

also depends on RJ's DSC design

[taybrynn]

Sean, I think the addition of arches and marty fans to nutcracker would be very very useful !!

I think the arches would be the most utilized of the two.

I think the marty fan would be cool in rgb because you possibly do text on it () and its a smaller
type RGB item than doing a megatree ... and rather easy to construct.

I just know your going to be getting a call (at somepoint) from LOR or LSP to make nutcracker a plugin or add-on at
some point.  I love what you have done with nutcracker and how you have made it open to all of us to us.

Amazing!!

[smeighan]

Sean, I think the addition of arches and marty fans to nutcracker would be very very useful !!

I think the arches would be the most utilized of the two.

I think the marty fan would be cool in rgb because you possibly do text on it () and its a smaller
type RGB item than doing a megatree ... and rather easy to construct.

I just know your going to be getting a call (at somepoint) from LOR or LSP to make nutcracker a plugin or add-on at
some point.  I love what you have done with nutcracker and how you have made it open to all of us to us.

Amazing!!

Thanks!

Does anyone know why it is called a Marty Fan? Just curious.
Here is a picture of a marty fan with a nativity scene in front of it. I like the composition.
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