Ron's stars are made out of coro. He made the shapes and installed 4 red and 4 green bulbs in each one. When all 8 bulbs are on, they become white. He has a section on the stars on his site...
I made something similar to these last year with 5 gallon buckets I got at Lowes. I just cut the top off and put the lights in. They looked great and worked very well. They didn't fit in with my show this year so I didn't use them.
I was looking at DYI christmas and found that there is a discussion on that board about hacking the Gemmy lights. The chat so far is just about whats inside the "shell". No real hacking... yet.
I received my lights all ready to hack, now I just have to clean my work room.
Since the Gemmy LightShow hack that i'm going to do and is hopefully going to incorporate LOR, I'm going to post all of my findings here in the DIY LOR forum
If you’re curious, there is a post on Planet Christmas, about the Gemmy LightShow. There are some pictures but no "in-depth" hack info yet.
Ponddude wrote: Ron's stars are made out of coro. He made the shapes and installed 4 red and 4 green bulbs in each one. When all 8 bulbs are on, they become white. He has a section on the stars on his site...
I made something similar to these last year with 5 gallon buckets I got at Lowes. I just cut the top off and put the lights in. They looked great and worked very well. They didn't fit in with my show this year so I didn't use them.
they sure looked like gemmy stars to me! ron did a very nice job on them
4 red and 4 green bulbs in each one. When all 8 bulbs are on, they become white. In order to get "white", you need some blue LED's. It looks "white" through the camera, mixing red and green gives you a yellowish color.
I am new hear and this will be my first year with LOR. Already i have an issue and i think i am in the right chat room for some help. I purchased some fairy led stars and webs to put on my roof. They claimed them waterproof but when i recieved them it was clear that the 8 way motion controller was not waterproof. I wrote the out of states company and i get nowhere with them at all. Is there anyway to eliminate the controller and just straight wire the lights? I am sure there is probably something in there to reduce the amps going to these little lights but not sure.
I also have falling snowflakes with motion controllers on that i would love to bypass. My LOR is going to do all the work for me. Besides the controllers reset to the first selection each time power is cut off. I am surely not going to climb on the roof and onto the second story everynight to reset the lights.
kim do a search of the site and you may find the answers you speak, I aint no electrician but did ask this question in an aussie forum as we have differences to the USA and i was helped after supplying pics of the pcb inside the controller and was a simple case of soldering 2 points together so that it bypasses the control part of the controller and the lights are now steady on. Some of my lights have a memory and it remembers the last setting, the other thing is that a lot of our lights in Australia run off step down transformers, so they really only run on 12-24vac.
I have searched everyway possible and the only chat i found was back in 2006. It was a user wanting to use them to chase up and down a pole. They told him they would run fine on the full on position. But i am being informed by a very reliable source that a problem will probably surface when i try to fade them up or down. That eventually the controller will fail.
You dont happen to have a link to the site you mentioned?
I'm not sure if the site i mentioned will be of help to you Kim, as I also mentioned Australia is and can be very different to the USA, for starters we run off 240V hence the reason why we use step down transformers to produce 12 or 24 voltage to low voltage lights. No matter what I would say you will have to take the controller apart and do a bit of soldering, but being no expert I cant guarantee that either. Details of the lights and possible pictures may help
Minimum; Let LOR control multiple strings together, on/off together.
Now, multiple LightShow light strings connected together will sync their program
to each other with in 60 seconds of power being applied.
Best choice scenario; Let LOR completely control the colors and/or effects with out
being a LOR channel monster.
I believe these are the "stars" Ron showed at the 2007 PLUS. I believe he just has a red and green bulbs inside each coroplast star. He did a class on them and if I'm remembering it right, I think he used both colors to get his white, I don't think there were 3 bulbs....
Oops... just like everone else has said and I, too, jumped in before scrolling to the last post. Sorry
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