Dave Lag wrote:
> He still uses their software, but the
> solid state relay boards are custom pieces done for him by his
> electrical engineer brother-in-law. Each board will handle 96 circuits
> and offers ramped dimming effects that the original L-O-R boards did
> not.

I'm happy to have guessed that the boards he used in that video did not 
do dimming, and that he used a radio to transmit the audio.  :)

I've got a more modest, non-musical display on my house this year.  A 
mere 16 channels of dimmable lights is all I could build in time, but 16 
extension cords hanging out of my garage door is enough for this year. 
Next year I plan on building custom TRIAC boards that are better (read: 
probably safer) than simpleio.com's 4-triac board, where they pay great 
attention to keeping the AC lines apart from one another, but the trace 
widths are too small, and the designer didn't seem to care about keeping 
the low-voltage opto lines out from between(!) the high-voltage opto pins.

--Michael
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