www.holidaycoro.com - Approved!

[kychristmas]

I have been surfing holidaycoro.com for a while after discovering their Coro Stars. While I haven't purchased those, I did purchase 48 Rectangular Waterproof RGB Modules from them recently. I was going to purchase from Ray Wu or from eBay, but decided I wanted them more quickly. As it turns out, they really weren't that much more. Maybe 5 or 10 cents more with shipping. The nice things was that it gave me the ability to purchase a smaller quanity for testing and not get killed on shipping.

I ordered the modules late last Friday and received them on Thursday. The modules ended up costing around 1.55 ea. with shipping. Looks like I can get that down to 1.45 with higher quantities and even less if I had ordered during their sale two weeks ago.

If you haven't already, check them out. Lots of cool, interesting specialty products at very reasonable prices . Sometimes semi-DIY is good enough :) I'm looking forward to ordering a few sets of Coro-Stars. I think they will be a great addition to my display and I can use them for the Flag-based holidays.

On top of that, I believe the owner is actually a member here.

Kelly

[bcstuff]

Kelly,
David Moore is a member here and is frequently a good source of information.
His user name is "dmoore"

Speaking of good source of information, he has a nice series on RGB that is worth watching:
http://www.holidaycoro.com/rgb/

[ukewarrior]

I too can say that Mr. Moore is very helpful and responsive.
I have his coro Northstar that is very cool.

He also supported our local mini, Lights Up Ohio, with multiple donations to our prize table.

[mschell]

I'll chime in and agree that holidaycoro is a great place to get some of the necessary things for our hobby.

I have purchased several of his products, including several CoroFlakes, a Tune-to sign, the American Flag, and the talking Reindeer, as well as some of the "cheap" DMX controllers. All arrived in great shape, with some innovative packaging.

An excellent place to get cool stuff.

[BuzzKill]

What is the best way to light these things? I really like some of the animatation items. Do you just black out the other bulbs you done use for a channel?

[ukewarrior]

Hey Buzzkill,

These coro items are essentially back lit. So, folks have been getting dumb RGB strings and driving them with a controller. David Moore advises the use of small 3 channel DMX controllers. Setup is then easy, each controller drives one string of red/blue/green. The other likely candidate for driving these is a REN48LSD. This works nicely because the REN48LSD can be turned into a REN24LSD with a jumper.

What is the best way to light these things? I really like some of the animatation items. Do you just black out the other bulbs you done use for a channel?

[kychristmas]

I believe he's asking about the Panels like the Letters, animated Characters and logos.


Hey Buzzkill,

These coro items are essentially back lit. So, folks have been getting dumb RGB strings and driving them with a controller. David Moore advises the use of small 3 channel DMX controllers. Setup is then easy, each controller drives one string of red/blue/green. The other likely candidate for driving these is a REN48LSD. This works nicely because the REN48LSD can be turned into a REN24LSD with a jumper.

[ukewarrior]

Yes, that is what I would do.

What is the best way to light these things? I really like some of the animatation items. Do you just black out the other bulbs you done use for a channel?

[bcstuff]

What is the best way to light these things? I really like some of the animatation items. Do you just black out the other bulbs you done use for a channel?

Some of David's (dmoore) stuff has the holes poked in it that you shove mini lights through the holes. I try to get as close as I can with the light count for the section I am doing. The extra lights are on the back of the coro so you could black them out if you wanted or just attach them to the back. If your coro is black you wouldnt really see it, if your coro is white you probably won't see it.

As David (ukewarrior) stated a lot of David's (dmoore) new items are back lit with RGB leds. The link http://www.holidaycoro.com/rgb/ which I also posted earlier in this thread will lead you to videos that will tell you all you want to know about RGB. Also David (dmoore) does assembly manuals as videos which help explain how to assemble and light the products.

P.S. David (dmoore) if you are reading this, please make more videos ;)

[mschell]

Yes, for those items that have "holes", you can use incandescent minis or M5 LEDs. I populated my American Flag with minis, but used warm white LEDs in the Tune-To sign. Both worked great!

Also, for the CoroFlake, dmoore makes a version that can be lit with mini's, vs LED modules. The mini version has holes drilled behind where the different parts of the flake will be, so you can light it like the other items. For the RGB version, either square or rectangular LED modules and the DC DMX controllers work great.

Here's some pictures of mine while I was working on it...only picture in a totally dark room is the pink one:1056210565105641056310566

[dmoore]

What is the best way to light these things? I really like some of the animatation items. Do you just black out the other bulbs you done use for a channel?

For the items that are designed for M5/M6 and incandescent items and if they are made from black coro (most are), than you don't technically even have to black out any left over bulbs since the black coro will prevent any light from behind reaching the front of the sign. I try to design them so that they often land around 100 but that's not always the case.