yuandrew
Flashlight Enthusiast
Just today, I noticed my neighbor four houses up has put his Christmas lights up. Traditionaly, I put mine up the day after Thanksgiving but he's been beating me to it ever since he moved in four years ago.
Well, I'm thinking of starting my 2006 display a little earlier this year; maybe sometimes this week. Already have several boxes of Forever Bright and Target/Philips LED Christmas lights ready. I'm still working on my controller; a pair of solid state relays and a 70 volt speaker transformer which will be triggered by an audio source so I could get the lights to *blink* to whatever song I'll play. I've already figured out the wiring, just need to mount everything to a board and wire up a few outlets and run extension cords for each "channel".
I wonder what songs I should play for Christmas. I already have Lindsey Buckingham "Holiday Road", Mavis Staples "Christmas Vacation" from National Lampoon's Vacation and Christmas Vacation respectively and the soundtrack from Home Alone and Home Alone 2 on my hard drive.
When do you start decorating ?
Well, I'm thinking of starting my 2006 display a little earlier this year; maybe sometimes this week. Already have several boxes of Forever Bright and Target/Philips LED Christmas lights ready. I'm still working on my controller; a pair of solid state relays and a 70 volt speaker transformer which will be triggered by an audio source so I could get the lights to *blink* to whatever song I'll play. I've already figured out the wiring, just need to mount everything to a board and wire up a few outlets and run extension cords for each "channel".
I wonder what songs I should play for Christmas. I already have Lindsey Buckingham "Holiday Road", Mavis Staples "Christmas Vacation" from National Lampoon's Vacation and Christmas Vacation respectively and the soundtrack from Home Alone and Home Alone 2 on my hard drive.
When do you start decorating ?