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2008 Display Facts


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Some facts about the display.....

4 Rosea Court, Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. Click here for directions.

Designed, built, and funded by Martin Lindsay. (fundiing assistance by previous sponsors). Creg Fran. kindly assisted with the installation this year.

More than 55,000 lights including more than 50,000 LEDs!

More than 328 channels control the lights.

Draws up to 8500 watts of power (if all lights on at once). Average power use is 4000 watts.

Expected power bill is $90 for the season. The lights use the same amount of power to run an average oven or Air Conditioner.

Synchronized to music, broadcast via FM radio (104.9FM)

Entire show is just over 2 minutes, which includes (1) musical sequence and (1) 15 second "all on" sequence.

Musical sequence took more than 40 hours to program!

This year's show is synchronized to: "Music Box Dancer" by DJ Schwede.

$55,422.00 collected in donations since 2002. All distributed to local charities

 

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