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Wow I can only think that this guy is really hated on his block. Nice job of engineering of the lights and controlers.

http://members.cox.net/transam57/lights.wmv

I'd say EXCELLENT!! even though it reminds me a bit of National Lampoon vs. Tooltime.

why "vs"? rather a cross between the two...

way too much free time on their hands

The Griswalds and Taylor Christmas together LOL.

can be programmed with a laptop computer

I have done something similar. We even have that type of programmable lights in our studio.

I haven't counted the different channels, but I'd say it's somewhere around 30-40 channels at least ... must have been one hell of a job to do the programming in sync with the music ...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,177861,00.html



It's the Griswold Family Christmas

MASON, Ohio (AP) — During the holidays, some people are content to deck their homes with evergreen wreaths and holly and maybe a few strings of lights made to look like glimmering icicles.

But not Carson Williams.

He spends nearly two months hooking up 25,000 lights, then he programs them to dance to Christmas music.

Hundreds of cars drive by his house north of Cincinnati every night to see the display, which also is posted on the Internet.

"So far, everyone's been really courteous," Williams said on NBC's "Today" show Monday. "I told the neighbors, I told the sheriff, if they get any complaints, I'll shut it down, because the neighbors are more important to me than the Christmas lights."

This is the third year Williams has assembled the display, which grows every year. He often stays outside for hours, chatting with visitors and directing traffic.

"We've had no problems," said Dave Hare, who lives across the street.

But the first year, it took some explaining.

"We called it the psycho house," said Hare's wife, Michelle. "It was just weird random flashes."

The display runs from the day after Thanksgiving until Jan. 1.[/list]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,178023,00.html

Lights Out for the Griswold Family Christmas

Sometimes your huge, crazy, dancing holiday light display can be a little too popular.

Cops asked a Deerfield Township, Ohio, man who covered his house with 25,000 Christmas lights rigged to dance when holiday music plays to pull the plug on the display after a car wreck Tuesday night, according to Cox News Service.

Carson Williams, the owner of the house, told police he would turn off his holiday decorations indefinitely.

As earlier reported in Out There, Williams spends nearly two months hooking up the 25,000 lights and programming them to dance — hundreds of cars drive by his house north of Cincinnati every night to see the display, which also is posted online.

Sheriff's deputies couldn't reach the scene of the accident because of the cars lined up on his neighborhood streets, Williams told a local Cincinnati TV station.

"He told us if we start having traffic problems that he would shut the display down for a while," Warren County sheriff's Lt. Ed Petrey told Cox News Service.

Williams' holiday light show drew national media coverage because the 25,000 lights are synched by computer with music beamed to car radios.

"I do a frosty song, 'God Bless the USA,' and then 'Wizards of Winter,'" as the three songs in the 12-minute show, Williams told Cincinnati's Local 12 News.

Around 7:30 p.m. near Williams' dancing-light display, two cars collided but there were no injuries.

"I told the neighbors, I told the sheriff, if they get any complaints, I'll shut it down, because the neighbors are more important to me than the Christmas lights," Williams said on NBC's "Today" show on Monday.

For now, Williams' eccentric light show will only be viewable on the Internet, motorists have been lining up between 6 and 10 p.m. since the display kicked off the week of Thanksgiving.

Williams, an electrical engineer, says he spent about $10,000 on his dancing Christmas lights.

— Thanks to Out There readers Tom R., Casey D., Ron M., Dan R., and Dave C.