Extreme Holiday Lighting

[JFletcher]

I think the following video is set to public:

https://www.facebook.com/324017390948799/videos/1223090781041451/

Has anyone wired anything like this, or is a project like this the love of a homeowner (whose also a lighting engineer)? Any guesses as to wattage, dedicated circuits, controllers, you know, all the technical stuff that makes this possible?

 

[mgookin]

The first time I saw one of them was about 10 years ago. It was done by an EE who worked for NBC in NYC. The way he did it was with a low power transmitter so drivers by could tune their radio to receive the audio so it didn't bother the neighbors. And he would shut it down around 10:30pm to curb the traffic and lights.

It requires a whole lot of programming, power, and time. Oh, and lots of money too.

Each segment of motion has to be separate.

 

[ptonsparky]

I did a little bitty system with a CLICK, a couple current transformers, some logic And several strings of LED lights. Worked pretty slick but the cost was to much for me to expand to any scale at all.

Absolutely no comparison to what is being done.

 

[chris1971]

The first time I saw one of them was about 10 years ago. It was done by an EE who worked for NBC in NYC. The way he did it was with a low power transmitter so drivers by could tune their radio to receive the audio so it didn't bother the neighbors. And he would shut it down around 10:30pm to curb the traffic and lights.

It requires a whole lot of programming, power, and time. Oh, and lots of money too.

Each segment of motion has to be separate.

Nice set up. I wonder if the neighbors are as excited about this display as the homeowner?:happyno:

 

[John120/240]

Nice set up. I wonder if the neighbors are as excited about this display as the homeowner?:happyno:

Neighbors ? I see a million dollar home, what appears to be an extra long drive way. As to cost of the installation IDK $50,000 & up ??

 

[Fulthrotl]

Neighbors ? I see a million dollar home, what appears to be an extra long drive way. As to cost of the installation IDK $50,000 & up ??

^^^up. probably close to double that.

bob fosse with a wattmeter.... we've a minime of this at
the end of the block.... broadcast music on a station you
can turn to... couple miles away, there is the boat parade
coming up in huntington harbor.... there are folks there who
spend 100k just doing their *boat*.

www.hhboatparade.org

LED's have made a lot possible recently. people who did this back when
used a commercial lighting deck like a small version of a whole hog,
and dimming racks.... now the reduction of wattage makes it within
reach of ordinary disturbed individuals not possessed of a trust fund.

abandon all hope ye who enter here....

http://www1.lightorama.com/

 

[Fulthrotl]

for those who want to peg that second trust deed on the house
quickly.... here's where the big kids go to play.

https://www.highend.com/

 

[JFletcher]

Looks like a blank check or MINO (money is no object) project/website links. At this point in my career, when I read something like this:

"Two rotating Gobo wheels, 2 fully retractable Animation wheels, 2 rotating Prisms, an Iris, a fixed color wheel and a CMY + CTO system... High End Systems is raising the bar YET AGAIN!"

all that comes to mind is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjCRUvX2D0E

and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0nGVbieezI

Forget the electrical side for a second; how many hundreds of hours of labor go into installing the light strings alone?