Re: 2nd Year Mega tree

Originally Posted by
gassy
I'll admit I'm a novice, but am I missing something in my calculations? It's my assumption that if I were to go "all on" (which I'm not) it would total slightly less than 40 amps. (108 x.35= 38) About 1 amp per channel on the Renards, right? I was planning on distributing the power over 3 - 15 amp circuits. Do I need to scale back my bulb count?
Scale back? NEVER! I have my lights like "C" with one channel per string. I had 72 strings this year. 16 red green blue white and 8 white spiral. I had planned to split them on two circuits but put a extension cord in the wrong outlet and for the first two weeks this was on one twenty amp circuit. No trips but when I noticed it I switched cords. Your only going to have one color on at a time. And most of the time that one color won't be on 100 percent all the way around.
o.K. with your limited channel count I would run one color 32 strings, that would make great fades and chases. Second choice would be two colors 16 strings each, fades and chases not as good but as good as most people run. Or the best answer is get more channels.
I think Dirk was kidding with a point to make you think about power, which you have.
2009 - 48 channel MegaTree 4800 lights
plus 3200 lights static display.
2010 - 6 Snowflakes on heavy equipment stored in front yard :-(
2011 - 72 channel Megatree 7520 lights,
120 channel total about 10k lights total
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