Mega Wreath 2015

The Mega Wreath is essentially a flattened mega tree. Instead of 10' to 20' high it is just 4 lights high. I used a 48" unlit wreath from CDI's presale. The 4 lights per radial make for 4 concentric rings going around the wreath.

Notes:

1. I use a string of 125 RGB pixels (WS2811's). This is 2.5 strings of 50's. The last string is cut in half. I use the connectors that come with the lights and heatshrink over them and put some silcon on the ends. On the beginning of the string I add a 4 core pigtail. The end of the string is also covered in heatshrink.
2. Next I subdivde the wreath into 31 radials with 4 lights each. I cut sections of PixNode strips about a foot long and put 1 bulb for every 3 holes. Next I put C9 covers over the lights to make the lights bigger and to diffuse the light. It will also make the lights just a little dimmer so they don't overwhelm everything around them.
3. Then I just connect the PixStrips with zip ties and hide them best I can with the wreath branches.
4. In Nutcracker123 I created two models. One was just a 4X31 matrix. The other was a custom model where I mapped out all the channels in Excel then pasted it into the custom model. These I then use to create effects that I export to LMS and then import into the LOR S3 sequence editor.

Power Usage:

• At full brightness (100% white)
• 45.5 watts, 0.34 amps

Materials:

• 48" Wreath (TWREATH48NL 500 tip two piece) [From CDI]
• 125 Pixels (WS2811 12volt 12mm IP68) from Seasonal Entertainment
• 125 Faceted C9 Covers (701799) from Ray Wu [Video]
• PixNode Strips 12mm RGB Node Node Mounting Strips for MegaTrees (94" Section) [Link]
  • Pigtail set from Seasonal Entertainment
  • SanDevice pixel controller. I use the E682 in my test, but plan to get an E6804 later this year.
  • Zip ties.
  • Waytek heat shrink.