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<blockquote data-quote="ok2bclever" data-source="post: 74113" data-attributes="member: 1356"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">That was cool, wasn't it.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">It was actually last year's display.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">He's doing it again this year.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">It's my understanding the film/video crews are capturing it currently for a variety of television programs.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">It is the work of Carson Williams of Mason, Ohio, who used 88 Light-O-Rama channels to control</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">his 16,000 Christmas lights. Apparently he spent somewhere between $2,500 and $5,000 on the hardware and a lot of man-hours programming the choreography. The whole display only requires a 40 amp 120 volt service to run.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Many expressed the thought that the neighbors must just love having this song played over and over again.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The music is broadcast on a vacant FM frequency which people driving by can tune in on their car stereo to listen to. It is NOT blasting the neighborhood with a set of humorous speakers driven by Fender amps like you'd encounter at a live concert.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Also the Trans-Siberian Orchestra saw this display and gave him free tickets with backstage passes and everything to the next year's concert tour. It probably did result in the sale of a lot more CDs to folks who otherwise would have never heard of the band.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ok2bclever, post: 74113, member: 1356"] [SIZE=4]That was cool, wasn't it.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]It was actually last year's display.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]He's doing it again this year.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]It's my understanding the film/video crews are capturing it currently for a variety of television programs.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]It is the work of Carson Williams of Mason, Ohio, who used 88 Light-O-Rama channels to control his 16,000 Christmas lights. Apparently he spent somewhere between $2,500 and $5,000 on the hardware and a lot of man-hours programming the choreography. The whole display only requires a 40 amp 120 volt service to run.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Many expressed the thought that the neighbors must just love having this song played over and over again.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]The music is broadcast on a vacant FM frequency which people driving by can tune in on their car stereo to listen to. It is NOT blasting the neighborhood with a set of humorous speakers driven by Fender amps like you'd encounter at a live concert.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Also the Trans-Siberian Orchestra saw this display and gave him free tickets with backstage passes and everything to the next year's concert tour. It probably did result in the sale of a lot more CDs to folks who otherwise would have never heard of the band.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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