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Merry Christmas All

TECHNO X-MAS MUSIC!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Sorry about not being able to talk there on teh phone, Dick. We're getting slammed with people on and off.
 
imaguitargod said:
TECHNO X-MAS MUSIC!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Sorry about not being able to talk there on teh phone, Dick. We're getting slammed with people on and off.
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Tis the season...............no probs, hows your mom....
 
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH.....All the pretty lights......

I'm taking my family to see a hugh christmas lights show at the hunter valley gardens on the weekend, which the kids have been looking forward to for weeks....

Over 400000 lights through out the gardens....
 
I belive that's the Holdman house: http://www.holdman.com/christmas/

Insane, yet very kewl. :D

Here's the 2008 displays... http://www.holdman.com/christmas/video2008.asp

Somebody said your display is "Wind Powered". I don't see the wind turbine in your yard.

It's true! The display is 100% wind powered. What I do is use power provided by my local power company, and then replace the power I use for my Christmas Display back onto the grid with Wind Turbines. For all the details you can visit www.renewablechoice.com - My display uses about 1800kwh and I have about 3000kwh replaced on the power grid.

How many lights do you have?

There were about 45,000 lights for 2007 and for 2008 we will have around 150,000.


How much power does it take? How much is your electric bill?

If everything was on, it would consume about 33,000 watts or 300 amps. I had to install 17 dedicated circuits to be able to power everything. Most of the time only 30% of the display is on because it is animiated which helpes conserve power. A lot of smaller displays acutally use more power than mine, because they are always "ON". The power bill for 2007 was only about $100 more than normal.
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I agree with "insane" :) Yes they are really pretty and the kids love them as well as adults but imagine putting them up, bringing them down, putting them up, bringing them down... It would do my head in!!

Oh yah, Merry Christmas Dick, you big nutter.
 
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