Today Tuppet added some lights to the sturdy looking wireframe and it is really starting to shine. More lights will be added before installation.
Tuppet's cousin has been busy constructing a star to sit on top of our turret. We are very impressed with his work - he also constructed the mini trees in our front yard which we are very happy with. Today Tuppet added some lights to the sturdy looking wireframe and it is really starting to shine. More lights will be added before installation. The whole thing is bigger than Tuppet, who can only just reach the top.
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As the installation process ramps up we are very happy to show off some of our tuppetstars. These RGB stars can be pretty much any colour - we set up a few as a demo: Meanwhile the rest of our light show is slowly emerging from boxes for another year.
Yesterday I mounted a piece of strip light along the roofline. I cabletied the lights to 10mm Aluminium strip and sat the strip on the nails which held up the rope light last year. On half of the strip I also attached 6mm coro as a diffuser. The vote here is divided on whether the lights look better with or without the coro. Surprisingly Mothertuppet likes the brighter uncovered lights, while Justin thinks they could be a bit much en masse so he voted for the coro. Tuppet quite likes the coro because it is a bit more forgiving on the straightness of the lights underneath, but at the same time it is an extra bit of work and it is more obvious during the day time, so her vote is as yet undecided.
An alternative mounting method I found during my testing (it was hard to get the 2m strip over all of the hooks while on my own up a ladder) was to lay the aluminium over the nails with the strip and coro on top. The sandwich meant that the lights were very straight while the fact you could only see the side of the lights reduced the intensity and light reflections. One quirk though... somehow Red and Green are swapped somewhere, so when you tell the lights to be red they turn on green. Small wiring issue to be corrected! One of our new arrivals is a set of four wall washers - I had a picture of them in the last post. The video bellow is sideways but that doesn't matter because all I'm really trying to show off here is the great colours on the wall, which would even look great upside down. Today the first of our shipments arrived, including a whole bunch of regular LED strings and warm white icicles which will expand the show nicely. In addition we got a couple of samples of RGB strings: The lights came with a controller so we could play with them a bit, which is what you can see in the video. The connectors are waterproof rated and seem pretty good. The bulbs also look fairly waterproof. The only negative comment so far is that some of the colour mixing can cause the bulbs to be more of a mix of colours than a mixed colour, but that definitely depends on the particular colour - yellow definitely doesn't work well, but purple is quite nice.
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