cvmom wrote:Neighbors have

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[quote=cvmom]Neighbors have done this very well with one of those laser light projectors. It looks great and no need to climb up to the top of the tree.[/quote]

ONLY ONE LIGHT SOURCE? Yeah, I realize a laser projector has a beam splitter, but that just seems like it won’t have enough wow factor to get people to stop and take notice 😉

the tree I have is about the size of something that could used @ Rockefeller Center (which upon doing some reading, I found out has 50,000 lights)

…actually started thinking about the logistics of the overall endeavor/folly (only after my initial impulse buy)

found an online christmas tree light calculator and upon entering the approximate size, the suggestion was to use a minimum 18,000+ lights,… so the three thousand feet of LED lights I picked up on sale was just about 2/3 of the suggested minimum,… then also started thinking about the power requirements for 50,000 LED lights,… YIKES

http://www.keyt.com/lifestyle/holidays/chapala-christmas-tree-lit-up-in-downtown-santa-barbara/667955133

http://www.keyt.com/news/santa-barbara-s-county/star-pine-tree-lights-up-downtown-santa-barbara/63424271

next recalled (as a kid) the parish used luminarias as decorations durning a christmas procession

so back I went to various home depot locations gathering stuff to execute my plan B decorating idea for the tree

basically the final idea is to mount (15-20) single color led kaleidoscope christmas lights

positioned at various different levels on the tree as up/down land scape lights to sort of get the tree to be lit up like a BIG luminarias

https://www.voltlighting.com/article-landscape-lighting-techniques/p/article-lighting-techniques

(overall I was able to purchased over 80+ of the single color led kaleidoscope christmas lights in: white, red, green and blue at an average cost much, much, much lower than list price)

yeah I realize this seems kinda out there, but figure its time to upgrade from a commercialistic YET pathetic charlie brown tree!