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2006

Left	Right	Side
Traffic Light - Main & Maple	Road Crossing @ Church Street	Red Car on Main Street
Main Street Bridge	Tree, Stop Sign, Road Lantern	Choir & Ferris Wheel
Animated Snowman Fight	11 Tree Animation Grid	RR Crossing

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Display:

2- 20 Amp, 3- 15A switched feeds expandable to 7 feeds plus one extra always on for control box, cameras, computer and timers.

80 Channel animation on main controller; 21 channels on traffic light controller; 13 channel animated snowball fight. 5 channel road crossing; 5 motorized animated objects: Plane, Crossing Gate, Ferris Wheel, Deer, Carousel. Display can sync to music.

Aprox. 17,000 lights

14 Christmas trees; 2ft to 6ft.

6 camera security system with 2 motion detectors and siren.

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Theme:

Animated North Pole Village with Main Street. Maple, Church, and Runway cross streets. Synchronized traffic lights at each intersection. Cars, plane, train, and sled transportation. Snowmen, candy canes, toy bears, Gingerbread men, toy soldiers, Santas, and Jack-boxes populate the village. To the north, a Bethlehem scene with animated star and beams.

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Animation:

This display is animated through a  program from Light-o-Rama and various hard coded animation sequencers. It runs on a 233MMX CPU with 256M ram sitting in a thermostat controlled heated cabinet. A five minute animation sequence repeats through the evening  5-11PM interrupted once for a musical animation. Background lighting stays on to 12 midnight.

Channel breakdown:

32 channels capable of dimming, twinkle, shimmer, fade.

40 channels line voltage on/off only from a DIO board.

8 channels 12VDC on/off; 3 slaved to the traffic light controller, one to power amp for music, 3 for switching 25A triacs one unused for expansion

21 channel traffic light controller; 6 for traffic lights, 7 for animated runway, 8 for animated street lanterns on Main Street; 3 12v. inputs to create different stored animations for the runway and street lanterns.

13 channel Snow Man vs. Jack Box animation. Snow throws at Jack and misses four times. Jack hits Snow on one try and breaks him apart.

ONE circuit background lighting always on.

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Music Synchronization:

With the addition of the Light-o-Rama animation controller came the ability to sync to music. Currently, this happens once a night in the early evening or by request. Two songs, Techno Jingle Bells, and O Holy Night are programmed. The music plays through an amp located in the control box.

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Future upgrades:

This display went through a major upgrade for 2006 with the addition of the computer, the 80 channel main controller and the animated snowball fight. The traffic light controller was upgraded to interface with this new LOR controller and the street lantern sequences added to it.

But one is never done.

Future upgrade ideas include:

  *A new train. This one is 15 yrs old and seen better days. Especially the engine.

  *Converting the Ferris Wheel to a wind mill: The 10 yr. old wood wheel is warped and the slip-ring worn out. The gear reduction is only 2 yrs. old and will be re-used.

  *Adding an FM Transmitter to replace the audio amp, (or use with it.), so visitors can hear the musical part through their car radios.

  *Increase the main running animation sequence to 10 min.

  *Add some more musical animation.

  *Add an animated Santa workshop.

  *Increasing the 11 tree animation to 16 or 22.

  *Building an 8 ft. lighthouse with revolving light in a gingerbread theme.

   *Add 16 or 32 more channels to do on/off/fade/twinkle and 8 more 12VDC capable channels.

   *** Move to a bigger yard!!!