Technical Difficulties

Posted by Darren on Dec 24, 2006 in Christmas 2006, The Technology | 1 comment

It’s been fun trying to keep up with all the little things that can go wrong with a large Christmas light display… strings of lights that go out, broken bulbs, broken yard stakes, lights falling off the house, wind blowing everything around – but most of those are easy fixes.

Last night, however, the heart of my background show, my Light Flurries box, blew its motor I’ve asked around on a couple of the local enthusiats boards with the hope that someone happens to have a spare on lying around, but I don’t have my hopes up. So I’m pretty bummed that on of my favorite parts of the show has come to a halt. This is the machine that creates the affect of snow falling on our house.
I’ll probably just remove my pre and post shows which rely heavily on the Light Flurries box – and just run the full show for an hour earlier and shut it down an hour earlier to make up for the loss.