Merry Christmas

And right back at ya!

Our house, from the main road, is about 3.1Km. On 3 occasions we had bumper to bumper traffic from that road to our house!!!
In 12 days, we have raised over 12000$ for Make A Wish foundation. I never thought in a million years that we would've made that much money. I have an ammo box and one night, I had to empty it 3 times. That night, we had made over 2400$.

Making it on the news sure helped. Newspaper once, 4 times on TV and twice on Radio. All in under one months time.

My wife is already gung ho for next years display. She wants to have new items made from scratch but using oh so many lights!!!!

Same here, i'm on a cul-de-sac so a ton of traffic would be the end of my display. When another house wants to join the display, rule number one is invite anyone you want, just no media.

I shut down earlier than planned last night.  I saw a few data glitches early in the night and then all but 48 of 368 channels of the display went down at around 7:30.  I swapped cords around and never isolated the problem.  The best I could get was to get everything working except 16 of the 48 mini trees and the Firefli arches. Some friends of mine from an hour away drove up to see our show and I had to explain that we were partly non-functional, but they enjoyed it anyway.  During the hour I was out there working on it we only had 3 cars, so I decided to kill the breakers after they left.  We had a good run for 32 days.

Next year I replace all of the data cords... some of them have seen 4 seasons so a problem was destined to happen eventually.  I'm considering getting a spool of proper shielded DMX cable and putting XLRs on my enclosures next year. 

Michael