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I really like these water fountains and the lights. What do you use to shoot the water up?

I guess I have the bug as well. 2 weeks ago, I was at a fireworks competition where they use music and sequence the fireworks to the beats of the songs. Here I am watching with amazement while thinking :This could be something to do with my controllers. Have fireworks go off with the music. I'd have to delay  the songs and the sequences to allow the fireworks to pop at the right time with the song.....

Yup, once you start sequencing, you want to sequence everything. You hear a song on radio and you think, yup, that is a good tune to sequence too...Sheeesh!

Edited by BigDPS - 04 Aug 2009 at 11:31am

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BigDPS Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 471	Quote Reply Posted: 04 Aug 2009 at 11:30am
	I really like these water fountains and the lights. What do you use to shoot the water up? I guess I have the bug as well. 2 weeks ago, I was at a fireworks competition where they use music and sequence the fireworks to the beats of the songs. Here I am watching with amazement while thinking :This could be something to do with my controllers. Have fireworks go off with the music. I'd have to delay the songs and the sequences to allow the fireworks to pop at the right time with the song..... Yup, once you start sequencing, you want to sequence everything. You hear a song on radio and you think, yup, that is a good tune to sequence too...Sheeesh! Edited by BigDPS - 04 Aug 2009 at 11:31am


Jonathan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 07 Sep 2008 Location: SoCal Online Status: Offline Posts: 1237	Quote Reply Posted: 04 Aug 2009 at 10:46pm
	I already figured out how to use fireworks with a DCx16. Unfortunately, shooting fireworks in my city get you an extremely large $5K fine so I decided that as cool as that would be when the "bombs were bursting in air" that it wasn't worth it. (Besides, my contact with all the stuff I needed didn't follow through.) Glad you liked it. The youtube crowd is quickly turning my Michael Jackson tribute into cult status. The geysers are simply plastic sprinkler heads with the directional top taken off and normal 3/4" rainbird sprinkler actuators turn it on and off. Just about any sprinkler head will do so long as the top is removed. Somewhere on my youtube page is the how to video from last year where I do a slightly better job explaining how I made it work.
	~Jonathan

BigDPS Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 471	Quote Reply Posted: 06 Aug 2009 at 7:13pm
	Well it was over 90 degrees in the sun out and we were in the yard, my wife and I, spotting where the display was going to go. We measured and moved stuff wondering how it will work out. The neighbors were looking at us in a funny way some even peaking out their window while slightly moving a curtain aside.... We had 1 arch done and we had to take it apart. It was just going to be WAY too heavy. I was very discouraged. My wife said there was something positive about it: we were going to spend more time together redoing the arches. The look she was giving me while smiling, just melted my heart. You know what they say "Families that build sequenced Christmas displays, stay together". OK. I made this one up but I truly believe it. When I get carried away, she's my conscience bringing me back to reality. If I didn't have her, I'd probably have the Eiffel tower in my yard as the center pole for my mega tree.


deweycooter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Development Joined: 14 Oct 2007 Location: League City, TX Online Status: Offline Posts: 674	Quote Reply Posted: 06 Aug 2009 at 10:04pm
	We had our first informal neighborhood meeting for this year's display. We had 6 houses linked together last year and will probably add 3-5 this year. It's probably the best thing I could have done since I gave everyone handouts on how things work, what the new people should expect to spend, and a rough outline of when things would happen. I have a feeling that the workload on my end may have eased. I think I'll get some help on the sequencing side and a lot of help on the setup.
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BigDPS Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 471	Quote Reply Posted: 07 Aug 2009 at 11:53am
	To do the setup, since I have a very bad back, I have what I call, a Rent-a-Kid. I have this 14 year old kid that's always willing to help me so I "rent" him from his parents on a friday night then return him home on sunday. He thinks this is the best thing that he can do. It keeps him away from his little brother and calls our house, the land of gadgetry. We have pinball machine (homemade), arcade cabinet(homemade) real looking theatre (where we show last years display with 7.1 surround sound ) while eating popcorn from a real popping machine. Lots of fun. He's already looking forward to help setup in november.