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Technical Information

Woodinville Wonderland continues to be added to, and upgraded. LED technology continues to play a significant role where applicable. Currently we are approx 96% LEDs, and try to be as "Green" as possible. This information is as current as it can be and changes up until we get to Light Up for each season.

· 104,124 lights - This is the current 2011 total. We use a mix of LED’s, and incandescent. Bulb styles include , M6, C7, C9, Mini’s, Floods and Rope

· DMX Universe - Theatrical Lighting. Colorwashes provide the house upwash, a Zap Strobe and Moving Head Lights called Yokes do the roving spot light effect

· 18,765 feet – 3.55 miles, of extension cords (that is just the connections)

· 48,275 feet of wire, (lights and cords) That one blew us away! Over 9.1 miles! All that has to be srrung one way or another.

· 93 Amps total to run everything if it was constantly on, but the actual is less due to the blinking and flashing

· FM Transmitter broadcasting on 101.9FM - Commercial free Christmas music during the day, and our light show at night

· We have over 2000 Christmas Carols and adding all the time, including some Vintage Carols that "The Antique Christmas Lights Museum" gave me permission to use. All of which now is about 10.6Gb worth of music. Our collection grows every year.

· Lights and Music are run by a lap top computer. The lights and show literally turns itself on and off using programs on the computer. The show is about 99.8% self sufficient, however, there are a few items that need to be turned on every night manually.

· 571 Channels of light animation, spread across several dozen controllers. That includes a DMX Universe for special lighting effects, and wireless communications. All of what you see twinkling or blinking is managed by the computer which tells the controllers what to do and when to do it.

· It’s powered by 3 15 amp circuits, and a temporary 80 amp sub panel called "Santa Power"

· It’s difficult to count how many hours went into the creation and setup. This is now a year round hobby. Needless to say, there are thousands of hours spent over the years

· Programming the lights to sync to the music can be time consuming, but, watching the show, it's worth every second. It takes me approximately 8-10 hours per minute of music for a "New" sequence to get the lights timed like you see them, but I am not the most proficient at this aspect

All of this is tracked and managed via an Excel spreadsheet to calculate the amperage loads. The cool by-product is all the above information.

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Genesis 1:14-15

And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky, to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth