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Friday, November 16, 2012

Medley of "Little Drummer Boy," Joy to the World," & Do You Hear What I Hear?" This test video demonstrates the functioning of three LED Christmas props that were created by us during the first two weeks of September. The central, two-dimensional prop is made from a 4' x 5' rectangle of corrugated plastic (coroplast or "coro.") The "decorated evergreen tree" is almost 4'9" tall and 3'9" wide at the base. This "coro tree" is framed along the front and back edges by 1" x 2" lumber. A drawing of 16 concentric, simple conifer outlines was made on the back side of the coro, with the outlines spaced 7/8" apart. Using a large awl, about 2,300 holes were punched (7/8" apart) from the backside along the 16 outlines. Using pliers, M5 LED lights were forced through the punched holes from the back until just the plastic "bulbs" or LEDs protruded on the front and their sockets fit snugly in the holes. Eight different colors of M5 LEDs were used: red; amber; gold; green; blue; purple; warm white; & pure/cool white. Only two separated outlines of the 16 total were lit with the same color. Of course, the 16 tree outlines of 2,300+ LEDs are controlled individually by the circuits of a Light-O-Rama controller. The two 3-dimensional spiral trees beside the "chameleon coro tree" are almost clones, except their LED strands coil in opposite directions. Each tree is 7' tall, portable, and mounted on a 33" diameter plywood base. Each multi-coiled spiral tree consists of 12 helices, with each helix being an 8-foot long, twisted, double strand of multicolored LEDs made from a 16-foot string of lights that was folded in half. For more information on making a spiral tree, please consult the description given in our third video of Christmas 2011! You can visit our YouTube Channel again by simply Googling: kimbnebritelites