Design goals for the display are to have a bright, clean, colorful display animated to music transmitted over 87.9 FM for people to enjoy from the warmth of their car.
The build of Mr. Creed’s Lights uses a combination of standard LED lights on shrubbery’s, mini-tree’s, and singing tree’s combined with new RGB Pixel strips outlining the entire house – garage, porch, gutters, windows, and roof.
The RGB Pixel lights are controlled using Holiday Coro’s 4th Generation Flex Pro System utilizing:
- one 16 channel HinksPix Pro Main Controller,
- two x 4 channel,
- two x 8 channel, and
- one x 16 channel Long Range Receivers.
The LED lights are powered by four Light-O-Rama LOR1600Wg3 3rd Generation 16 channel 15 amp Professional AC controllers.
The entire display totals 6,830 lights spanning 1,924 feet of wire using a maximum of 2,017 Watts of power and runs off two AC circuits using as follows:
- 6,852 RGB Channels or 2,284 Pixels spanning 633 feet of wire/strip using 1,537 Watts of power (all pixels 100% white color on constantly):
- 914 Pixels outlining the house (doors, windows, gutters, & roof)
- 800 Pixels on Mega-Tree
- 300 Pixels on Leaping Arches (50 pixels on each of 6 x Arches)
- 270 Pixels on Mega-Tree Star
- 4,546 LED Lights spanning 1,291 feet of wire using 480 Watts of power (when on constantly) by these elements:
- 1,400 LED M6 mini-lights on the 4 x Singing Christmas Tree’s
- 1,250 LED net lights on the Shrubbery‘s
- 1,200 LED mini-lights on the 8 x Mini-Tree’s
- 600 LED lights on the 87.9 FM Sign
- 96 LED drip lights on the White Shooting Star Icicles (used for static display mode only)
TIP: LED light strings can last a very long time, decades even, if you purchase strings with “sealed sockets.” Good news is you’ll never replace a bad bulb again. The #1 reason LED lights fail is they get moisture in the socket which rusts the connection, sealed socket lights prevent that. I’ve had great luck with the LEDs from Holiday Light Express.
See the other pages in the Build menu to learn more details about each display element or click here to read about the Pixel House Outline.