Another thing that has never been calculated, mainly because it changes, but well over 1000ft. A lot of our cords are custom made to length and each prop gets a cord.

The “Big Tree” has 26 connections for the body and each of those are about 10ft in length. Plus the 30ft cord to run the star.

Then there are the 2 100ft cords that feed the controllers from the wall outlet. That is 490ft of power cord alone!

So as you can see, the lengths add up and fast!

There are also network cables and security cable running throughout the show as well, so that adds to the totals. Maybe some day, we will actually calculate it.

The bulk of the show is run through hardware from Light-O-Rama. The matrix is run through a Falcon F16V4.

Our current LOR hardware:
7 – CTB16PC 16 Channel A/C controllers (The ones that make everything blink on and off.)
2 – Pixie2 RGB Pixel controllers (These run the 8 RGB arches.)
2 – USB485 adapters
1 USB-RS485 Adapter with Booster and 1 Standard adapter.

Current Falcon Hardware:
1 – Falcon F16V4

Computer Hardware:
The show is run from an HP Z230 Workstation PC (i7-4790 @ 3.6GHz) running 24GB ram, 250GB SSD hard drive. It runs an additional PCI network adapter for the DMX network to control the Falcon.

Sound:
Sound comes from the PC and splits the feed into a Yamaha home theater receiver out to the speakers in the yard, and a CZE-05B FM transmitter that broadcasts on 107.3FM.