Sequencing a Weber Tree, any hints or tips?

Originally posted by Buckeyelights Soon I plan to try sequencing a Weber Tree and wondered if anyone else has given it a try? Any helpful tips or advice would be appreciated.   how did you draw the Weber tree in the visualizer?   What did you quickly learn that you didn't think about before you started? I don't need one of these:  LOL!   Tks! Joe

I tried and it isnt as easy as I thought it was going to be. I ended up building a mini one in my workshop and tried it that way, still not looking right. I wish someone or the actual Mr. Webber would speak up.. Unfortunatly I dont expect ever to see MR. Webber again. They were being chirldren on Planetchristmas. and I think he left mad.

Edited by gtxl1200 - 25 Jul 2010 at 4:15pm

Unless someone comes up with a specific program that will export to at aurora, lsp, LOR file type, I doubt you'll ever see a true graphical representation on  any of the commercial programs. 

I'm probably going to follow the mega tree design and basically its going to be a graphical image in my head to what its going to look like.  If you sit and watch the video enough, you should get enough of a mental image to understand what its going to look like doing certain patterns. 

Well, I went ahead and build the Full size version of the Webber tree. Let me tell you it wasnt easy. Plus I have to still move it out front whre it is going to be for the show. I built it so I can try and get it to do what Mr. Webber did with his.. Let me tell you it is not easy at all. I can barely make it do a once around let alone all of the things we all seen and loved on the video. so those of you who hasnt starte programming your webber tree yet you might want to get started..

Originally posted by Buckeyelights Hi gtxl1200,   Would you please share some of the details of the problems you encountered and any suggestions you have?   "..barely make it do a once around.."; what did you mean by that?  Was the strand of lights too short?   For sequences, I've used typical chases, etc., that I used with a regular mega tree sequence.  Since I've not built the actual spiral tree yet, I can't test those events out. Are you doing anything different for the events within a sequence?   Tks! Joe

Hello, what I meant by a once around was make the tree look like one strand was spining around the tree.  Here is How I built my tree. I used two sections of an old TV antanea I had. It stands 20 feet tall. I then took clothes line with the wire inside and ran 8 lines from the top down 4ft out, so from 1 across to the other is actually 8 ft.  I then wrapped 32 strings around aproximatly 1and a half times, and spaced them by eye. I didnt use any fancy math to figure the spacing. I plugged 2 strings into each channel. Thus giving me 16 channels with 2 strings in each channel. Then I just set outside with my show computer and started to turn ons and offs and played.. I'm not having good results. I can get them to spiral. But I can't seem to get one to spin one direction and one to spin in the opposite direction. I watch some of Mr. Webbers videos then try and emulate. It has been raining hard here for the last two days so I havent wanted to send electricity to anything.. It is supposed to clear up here today. So I will go out and give it another try. I have been studying Mr. webbers videos and stopping them and moving them frame by frame. So hopefully I will make some progress today.

Edited by gtxl1200 - 03 Sep 2010 at 7:28am

Originally posted by deweycooter can you send your channel configuration?