LOR=Light-O-Rama
LOR is a way to computerize your light display, for christmas time or any other time you would like.
You use software on your PC to control when the lights go on/off, shimmer, twinkle and fade. It takes
a LONG TIME to do, between 1 and 4 hrs a MINUTE of music. It also depends on how many channels you have.
I have a basic 16 channel version of it. The boxes come in either 8 or 16 channels with a 32 on the way
soon. Price for a box... well about 350 for a completely put together 16 channel box. I know that sounds
like a lot of money, but what do you expect for computerized light control? When you do it on your computer
you can either syncronize everything to music or just animations. You can also set the box to do animations
on it's own without a computer, but what's the fun in that? I will be synchronizing 4 or 5 songs for christmas
to music, but I'm not sure if you'll be able to hear it or not. Reason, is I either have to pump music OUTSIDE
and annoy the neighbors or buy a $140 FM transmitter. I probably won't have the money for a transmitter this year
but the plan is to have one for next years display. Her are some pictures of the LOR box.
This is a picture of the box on my floor so you can get an idea of what it looks like. Yes, those are heavy duty
cords coming out of it.
Here is an image of the sticker that says what it is. Notice the 2X15 amps on the label. Yes, this box can
handle 30 AMPS OF BULBS. Of course, in order to take full advantage of this, you would have to plug it into 2
distict circuits in your house so that the box can get 15 amps per 8 channels like it is supposed to get max.
If you want to, you can upgrade it to 20 amps per side, but my question is why? You can fit around 4000 mini-lights
on 15 amps. That's a lot of bulbs!
Here is my foot on top of it, It's actually hovering above the box, I didn't put my foot on it, but it shows just
how big this box is. Most of you know how big my foot is so that is a good measurement of how big it is. Oh yea
did I mention, that it weighs about 19 pounds! Reason is simple, that's a metal casing built to take the weather and
built to last many years.
This is a view of the inside of the box. It shows the components on the inside of the box.
This is a closeup of the inside of the box. Shows all the different components inside the box that make it "tick"
Now that you know what the box looks like, now you get to see what the room looks like whre I have my "mock setup." My mock setup is basically 16 channels of lights on the wall as you will see below.
Here is the left side of the wall in my bedroom. You can see the first 10 3/4 channels. The 3/4 channel is the santa in sleigh that is cut off.
Just in case you want to know, the channels go as follows:
1.double candycane 2. Tree 3. Angel with background 4. Santa waving 5. preasant under santa.
6. sleigh 7. candycane 8. wreath 9. preasant under wreath 10. angel
here is the right side of the wall. I will start with the santa in sleigh as channels.
10. Santa in sleigh 11. stocking
for now I'm using lights for 3 channels. I need to get 3 more things to replace those, but for now this is what it is.
12. upper left lights 13. lower lights 16 upper R lights
Here is a picture of the bottom part. yes, that is my Mac there and it is just sitting there because LOR is PC ONLY. That is why my laptop is there with part of a sequence on the screen. You can see how you input what the lights do. You can also see channel 15 there, the preasant that is on top of my storage case of music stuff.
Here is the display at night:
Here is the left side all lit up at night. It's a little brighter then the other ones. I don't think I got my finger all the way covering the flash like the rest. Still gives you a good idea though.
This is the right side at night.
Finally, the bottom part at night. Harder to see the preasant because it is lower then the rest of the lights so it doesn't get as much light. Still a good idea of the brightness.
Here are a couple of funny images, and an electric companies dream!
Here are some of the cords coming from the wall lights and the LOR box. If you can see, there are only 2 cords going into the powerstrip. The 2 cords are from the LOR box. The reason is that you are supposed to plug that into 2 different outlets so that it can have 30 amps going to it, but right now it's all going into 1 outlet since I have very few lights going into the box AND I don't have 2 plugs available on 2 differnt circuits there.
You can see the LOR box underneath sub box. For now it's sitting there, if I feel that it starts to get hot I'll have to move it somewhere else, but right now it works there and is also out of the way. All those extension cords go to that box, which is why it looks like there are so many cords there. 16 are going INTO it and 2 come OUT of the box so that's 18 cords in a small area.
You may ask, what made me want to do this, well of course it was the Carson Video that made me want to do this. I don't have close to as many channels, but 16 is a good start. hint, he has 22 on that row of trees that light up individually in the middle. Click Carson video to see the video. Caution it is almost 5 megs.
If you would like some more information on this product or more information on computerized lighting visit:
Light O Rama Light o Rama homepage
Planet christmas Planet christmas chatroom/forum for all the info
you could need on lights and lighting solutions. The 2 I look at are the LOR one, of course, and the one called Lights, Lights, Lights! Feel free to look
at any of them though, they all have helpful info and if you have an account, free of course, you can ask questions and answer other people's questions.
It will be a bit before I update again. I'll probably find somehow to video my sequences and put them up. Just have to worry about bandwidth. I'll have to find another place to put those up with more bandwidth.
comments? suggestions? Problems? send them to my yahoo mail at: [email protected]