My neighbors have it and it gets old. Very Tacky

Dec 9, 2023
10:44:54pm

oohYeah All-American

Part of what made Christmas lights special is it was for one month a year.

Just like playing Christmas carols year round would get old

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About how much does it cost to get Jellyfish lighting?

Gunga Galunga

12/9/23 9:44pm

Take the number you are thinking and probably double it

Cougz19

12/9/23 9:51pm

Kinda figured that was the case but, I could really do without repeating today's

Gunga Galunga

12/9/23 9:54pm

$650 just for the controller and $25-$30 a foot

Cougz19

12/9/23 9:56pm

What is jellyfish lighting?

Crowgar

12/9/23 9:53pm

Permanent professionally-installed outdoor lighting

KingDave

12/9/23 10:13pm

Neighbors have said 5-8k. I think one got a deal and theirs was 4k

goofball

12/9/23 9:55pm

wow, that seems expensive

TO11

12/9/23 10:05pm

My wife hates it. 50% of our neighborhood has it and all the houses look the same. Big pet peeve for her.......

Bonoman

12/9/23 10:14pm

TBF, the Jellyfish houses near us are the ones that look a lot better than most.

Superkid

12/9/23 10:31pm

Seems like folks have to justify the $ by using them year round. Tacky IMO

BluePostum

12/9/23 10:17pm

My neighbors have it and it gets old. Very Tacky

oohYeah

12/9/23 10:44pm

I turn mine on for a lot of holidays, but outside of Christmas it’s usually just the day of the holiday. I guess I did

cheezedawg

12/9/23 11:57pm

I did a DIY permanent install. It’s a large install of almost 4000 LEDs across 135 meters. I spent maybe $3k plus a lot

cheezedawg

12/9/23 10:50pm

Do you have details you'd be willing to share about where you found

FabLabCougar

12/9/23 10:52pm

I’m more than happy to share. Disclaimer that I tinker with this stuff a lot so this might be a bigger learning curve

cheezedawg

12/9/23 11:22pm

I just took this pic of the candy cane pattern that my daughter preferred.

cheezedawg

12/9/23 11:30pm

I took this picture of the controller boxes that I made.

cheezedawg

12/9/23 11:39pm

I am not a solderer yet so I went with bullet LEDs instead of strip lights. I have one level done and should finish the

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