Alek's Controllable Christmas Lights for Celiac Disease

Use the three christmas webcams for a live view of over 20,000 christmas lights and also CONTROL them - heck, you can even inflate (or deflate) the giant Elmo, Frosty, Santa, and Homer Simpson - D'OH! All three webcams are online from Thanksgiving to Jan 1st between 1700 to 2200 MST (GMT-7) which is when you can turn stuff on & off to entertain the neighbors. Plus send "Instant Messages via Webcam" for all to see. HO HO HO! ;-)

It's been a fun run providing joy to millions of Internet surfers for over a decade, but Alek "Griswold" hung up his Santa Hat after 2014 ... ;-)

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HULK sayscan add some cheerful christmasy comments now in the Christmas Blog

While I appreciate the folks who have asked if they can donate/PayPal to cover the costs of the lights and (wind powered and carbon offsett'ed!) electricity, I've never asked for donations and don't plan to change that. While it is a bit of work to put up all the Christmas stuff, I do it anyway for the neighborhood kids and the web site is just my way of saying "Merry Christmas" to folks around the world. If you feel compelled to make some sort of donation, I've been involved with celiac disease so make a donation toward medical research at the Center for Celiac Research - tell 'em Komar.Org sent 'ya! ;-)

Circuit Layout & Electrical Analysis for Christmas 2014 Circuit X10-Zone Amps Lights Description Panel-1 1 5.6 3,000 Burrito Reindeer, Christmas Tree, Presents, Mini Candy Canes Balcony 1 3.6 1,000 Swag, Bells, Stars, Wreaths, Tree, Plane, Purple Rope Light Panel-2 2 5.7 2,000 10 foot and lower LED lighted tree, lower Juniper, Candy Canes Balcony 2 2.4 500 Inflatable Tree/Grinch/Homer/Santa, Giant Lights, HULK Spotlight Panel-3 3 7.7 3,000 Sidewalk Candy Canes & Figurines, West Tree, Train, Santa Sleigh Garage-E 3 5.4 2,200 Garage Icicles, Front Door Swag Garage-E 4 3.5 800 Christmas Trees hanging from Garage Panel-5 4 5.0 2,200 Upper Roof Icicles, Purple Orbs, Column/Bubble Lights Panel-4 4 8.0 1,500 Snow Globe, LED Tree, Penguin, Bells, Santa Heli, SANTA! Panel-2 5 4.2 1,000 Giant Inflatable Frosty, Red Topped Mini-Frosties, Tin Man, Trees/Stars Garage-W 5 0.6 100 Inflatable Elmo - Tickle me! Window-U 5 0.8 500 Upper Window Decorations Panel-2 6 4.8 1,300 HO , Inflatable Frosty Family Garage-W 6 1.5 400 Garage Stars, SpongeBob SquarePants TIMES TWO! Panel-2 7 3.3 1,300 HO , Inflatable Pumpkin - Jack is Back!!! Garage-W 7 0.6 100 Inflatable Santa - twelve feet high! Window-L 7 1.5 500 Lower Window Decorations Panel-5 8 3.5 800 Santa Balloon, Doggie, LED Reindeer Family Panel-1 8 1.0 400 Chimney Stars & Swag Garage-W 8 0.8 100 Inflatable Homer Simpson - D'OH! Panel-1 * 4.7 1,800 ON/OFF (1/2), Santa Skier (5), Roof Outline (6), Santa Plane (7) Office * 2.0 500 Various stuff in Santa's Workshop! ;-) 1:Rainier Beer 2:Santa's Workshop 3:Candles/Light-UP! 4:Bells/Hulk Lamp 5:Merry Banner 6: Groovy Lava Lamps 7:Stepping Santa 8:Present/LED Cube TOTALS 22 76.2 25,000 TOTALS

2014 Christmas Lights Webcam Updates

A question often asked is how much does it cost to light the holiday display - the electrical meter does spin a bit faster. That's easy to calculate - with all 25,000 lights ON, the current draw is 76.2 amps. Multiply by 120 Volts and divide by 1,000 to get 9.1 KiloWatts. The electricity cost in Colorado is about 10 cents per KiloWatt-Hour, so to run the display continuously for an hour, it costs 91 cents/hour - not much!... so divide that by two and then multiply by the 5 hours/day it's active, and the electricty costs 227 cents per day. Multiply that by 31 days and for $70, a whole month of holiday fun is provided to people around the world ... plus some awareness and thousands of dollars in donations for Celiac Disease Research!