2025 - Time Flies When Your Having Fun!

This blog serves two purposes. I've been asked to post the details of setting up the show on a day to day basis. It also functions like the oganizer in my pocket. The organizer holds my brains, so when my brain is not working, I can reach in to my brain and recall what ever it is I'm trying to remember. This blog does nearly the same thing. It also lets me know how much time I spend making the smiles when the "Lignts are On". If you find anything interesting that you would like me to expand on, just send an email. Sorry I don't do facebook.

Where the time goes is beyond me. Just beware if your thinking of retiring and that you'll have lots of time on you hands, your about to have a big let down!.



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9/8/25 - Monday. Another Halloween show is almost upon us. Amazong how time flies. Website pages are being updated. Additional notes to myself. Get the documentation up to date before I forget the changes made this year. Get the sequences modified to kick off the lighting for the fixed props like the spider web, witches kettle, firelog, scarecrow. Drill the holes for the fogger piping. Replace the Triac for singing pumpkin #8. Watch Ghost light #1 for any more false triggering in the middle of the night.

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modify hprivacy and htermsofservice pages
spray paint cemertary fogging tubes flat black - insulate???

2025 ToDo

9/xx/25 - Sunday. Get eve boards down and change light bulbs and test lights. ☐ Change out the orange / purple led c9 bulbs for the red / blue on the front eves.
☐ Hammer in the controller post supports on #14, #32-#33-#34.
☐ Lay out the utility flags for controller locations.
☐ Plug in South side roof eve lights.
☐ Plug in North side roof eve lights.
☐ Can lawn be mowed one more time before placing all cables.
☐ retrieve and test halloween controllers.
☐ RS485 signal cable from #5 to #4.
☐ RS485 signal cable from #4 ti #0A - led flood controller.
☐ RS485 signal cable from #0A to mini tree controllers.
☐ RS485 signal cable from mini to mega tree controllers.
☐ RS485 signal cable from mega to Felix singing tree.
☐ RS485 signal cable from Felix to #13.
☐ RS485 signal cable from #13 to #14.
☐ RS485 signal cable from #14 to Future arches.
☐ RS485 signal cable from #2 to #7/#8.
☐ RS485 signal cable from ##7/#8 to #32/#33 spiral tree.
☐ South Tune to sign (should be in right location from halloween).
☐ Put a new 4x4 post in to support RGB flood lights controller. Install new longer cables. Mount behind Merry Christmas penguin.
☐ check the #13 controller backing board on the oak trees
☐ Get witches down from garage rafters
☐ Get pumpkin patch pumpkins down from garage rafters
☐ Get hay bail pumpkins down from garage rafters
☐ Get pumpkin scarecrow frame down from garage rafters
☐ Get Nightmare before Christmas characters down from attic
☐ Get witches post and led entry way light down from garage rafters
☐ Get spider web and ultraviolet lights down from garage rafters
☐ Get spider web spider down from attic
☐ Get pumpkin tower down from garage rafters
☐ Get white ghosts down from attic
☐ Get ghost lights out of trailer
☐ replace ghost lights with rgb floods???
☐ itsy bitsy spider???

☐ Re-Test all lights.

☐ check and test rj45 cables.
☐ test antenna North Star harness.
☐ Still need to remove bluetooth module and put laptop fuse in Lenovo so display will work again.
☐ Need to install and configure VM on used Lenovo running win 10 pro so have backup computer for xmas show development and testing.
☐ Order some new strobes and 5mm strobes when sales start.
☐ Repair controllers that have bad triacs. mega blue#4, green#6 #7-15, 7-7. Replace #7 then replace the triacs.
☐ Triacs #7 and #14(?) on green mega tree controller - consider replacing controller with new G3. After replacing use for 3rd color spiral tree.
☐ New chicken wire ornaments/bulbs for north and south end.
☐ Bad pixel on felix (upper left corner of mouth)

☐ Need to finish converting old sequences to S5.
☐ Pine tree removed! Replace with smaller one???
☐ Need wire labels for missing wires. Mini trees 12W or 13W & 15W - Snowflakes?
☐ Still need to build new Snowflakes
☐ Antenna North star needs to be rebuilt (held up pretty good for 10 years) Not lighting.
☐ Old one has been rebuilt and needs to be added to spiral tree. Trying to decide if I like it. After the work put in to it I'm wondering if it might be taken as a negative on religion.
☐ Labeling of some wires such as #15-14,15 white minis - do a label check on everything plugged in.
☐ Reminder that I still need to update website with pics.
☐ RGB floods need to be documented
☐ Changed LOR Preview to eliminate channel conflicts - have an uneasy feeling about S5 converson and functionality. There's a lot of code change and new functionality that affects how sequences are coded.
☐ Check and edit controller channels on 32/33. Forgot What/Why???
☐ Put controller id labels on 15-18 and 7 & 8.
☐ Consider running a new second network signal cable for high speed rs485 network cable to high spped rgb devices like rgb flood controller, Felix the singing Christmas tree, and then on to arch controllers.
☐ RS-485 cat5 cable from #2 to #7-8 needs new modular jack. replaced with new cat5 wire.
☐ Are linklight transmitter/receivers working - driver issue? ☐ Indoor decorations and lights.
☐ Finished backup of Lenovo - need to install LOR on new HP laptop computer and transfer (?) vm guest to it (maybe - possibility that LOR won't run on xp mode vm based on preliminary research).
☐ Put wire labels on red / green candy cane harnesses.
☐ Christmas presents need a new method of setting up - maybe a conduit in ground - hole punched in ground for support.
☐ Had excess wire/lights left over at base. Came to the conclusion that maybe I forgot to put the pin inside the base which allowed the 20' NG pipe to sink into ground because of weight.
☐ Need to redesign / recalculate height so as to keep from wrapping lights at ring.
☐ Put colored electrical tape on Mega tree to mark where wrgb strings need to be placed. ie. every red location - green splits the reds - while and blue split the red/greens. Note: 64" radius, 128" diameter, 65" chord.
drive nail stakes in at 6 locations 64" then xx

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