John's Journal

[rrowan]

Hi John

Nice job

Cleaver answer to a hard problem

{I know that Keith can be more witty and work in a plumber angle}

Cheers

Rick R.

It just hit me

Keith could do a plumb line

ugh, sorry

[KeithTarpley]

Hi John

Nice job

Cleaver answer to a hard problem

{I know that Keith can be more witty and work in a plumber angle}

Cheers

Rick R.

It just hit me

Keith could do a plumb line

ugh, sorry

Greetings,,,

That's just a pipe dream...

 

Keith

[vairmoose]

now that is just plumb silly...


(Great idea and execution John!!)

Larry

[wbuehler]

Nice work

Bill

[ThaiWay]

Arch fatigue.  Using thin-wall PVC doesn't cut it when you drill 3/8" holes to fish the extension cords through, not even with a  3/4" insert for strength.  Arches 2 and 3 buckled at the weak peak.  15 hours each of prepping/wrapping/wiring wasted   

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Arch #1 had just 1/4" fish holes, and survived.  But it was so much trouble to reverse fish the wires.  Now, thick-wall is in place for 2, 3 and 4 for natural pre-stressing in the sun.  But I don't have the heart to wrap them yet... other priorities!

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Power and Control Center above the front door:

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This year's Snowflake placement is redesigned, thanks to suggestion of the SO, uh huh... and of course that meant new new/modified hanging cables.  And they've graduated from a cheap little oriental chase box to a Full Control Original Lynx.  That means new wiring/connections.  Some pics:

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I've mastered tip-toeing across the cementious roof tiles to get to the parapet.  At my age, no small feat.

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Hard to believe it was just a month and a half ago I went to the Thailand Post to claim my box of goodies from Bill (thanks again!)  Wireless, OL's from Todd, vampire plugs from Paul, etc.

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Still so much to do.  I haven't even touched the 110V stuff yet.

[rrowan]

Hi John,

Sorry to hear about the arches

Very Nice pictures of your setup. Please be carefully on the roof

Cheers

Rick R.

[softshelpro]

WOW!! I am impressed with your snow flakes and all the other grait things you have going on here.

[wirekat]

John you are an inspiration!

I have really enjoyed following the journey.

Kevin

[wbuehler]

Looks Awesome

Bill

[coachers]

John,

 Thank You for sharing your journal.

 Just awesome!

AL

[ThaiWay]

I've been working on sequencing with LightShowPro for over a month.  Finally I have reached a point I call (almost) done with Carol of the Bells.   It' my first try at setting the lights to music.  In LSP, you can make a video of your sequence using the channel images you've drawn on your display picture.  There's a link to the vimeo upload in my post in the Australian Christmas Light forum if you wanna check it out: 

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John

[meman]

Great stuff John, thanks so much for sharing. You got me motivated to download the latest release of LSP and give it a shot. Thanks again!!

Mike E.

[kevr]

Thanks John, this is a great resource for us new guys. I have just finished wrapping my arches 3 x 3.5m 5 sections on 40 mm heavy wall irrigation pipe. I will be into sequencing soon so all the info I can get the better.

I need some of your enery!!!

Thanks again

Kev :-)