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What's the best system to use to animate Christmas lights?
I'm looking to do our home with a spectacular light show this year. I would like to ideally have a chaser mode and maybe sync flashing. What is the best system to do this with? I would like to have as many zones as possible as well.
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- ?Lv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
I would use LightORama too. It is pretty easy to use and set up.
Call Dan or his wife Mary and ask him about it. LOR is a great way to synchronize your lights to music.
If you haven't purchased the software to program your lights, go ahead and start now.
If this is your first year, you can get by with 16-32 channels. LOR also has a assemble your own kit (a 16PC) that you can assemble in about an hour - it will keep the cost down.
I use LOR and love it. A word of caution though: It takes a REALLY long time to program a song to lights (you can expect to take 1-2 hours per minute of music).
Most people will have about 3-5 songs so you can expect to take about 40 -120 hours to program a song.
LOR has a new software that is easier to use than their first version, but it is still very labor intensive.
I would suggest using the free download of the software to see if you can get the hang of it. That way, if you do purchase stuff, you will be ahead of the game.
Warning: They do tend to run out of stuff in Mid November-December. So if you are on the fence, go ahead and purchase now.
If you decide to sell, go to the forums and list your products there. You will recoup your investment (they will not pay much over cost).
there is a site http://www.lorsequences.com/ that has songs on it. IF you can't handle the sequencing, you can download a song there and modify it for your home and display. It will reduce hours off your workload, but not completely eliminate the hours.
If you do decide that you like LOR, but want to wait until next year, they have had an annual summer sale for the past few years where you will save about 10% off your purchase. Dan has a contest where you can have a chance to win your purchase for free, but you have to understand that your odds of winning are about 1 in 100 to 1000.
Good luck with your decision and be sure to post videos of your display for us to look at.
Source(s): LOR systems can be connected with Cat-5 cable. You can run over 500 foot without a loss of signal integrity. If you need, he also has a wireless transmitter that can connect units together (if you are working across a great distance or cannot run a cable to the controllers). If you have questions about LOR, try the LOR forum or the LORWiki. I think you would get better answers from the forum though.
