Arduino Christmas Light Controller

Step 4 Wire up your display

For my display i chose these 8 trees in my yard. (image 1) You can pick what ever you want as long as the arduino can somehow be inside and warm. For me the best option was to put him in the garage. I went to home depot and bought some 5 strand sprinkler wire cause it was on sale for $24 for 500ft. (image 2). Since your setup probable woulnt be the same as mine ill just show you how wire on each plug.

1) Get 8 dead christmass lights and cut off the female plug (image 4)
2) Get all the supplies in image 5
3) Layout the cable the way you want it
4) Find where your gonna put the plug to connect the tree into and using the knife cut open the casing
5) Pull out the ground (for me its WHITE) and cut it in half, strip both ends and connect both sides of the ground to one wire on the plug using a crimp connector.
6) Do the same thing for the colored wire which is the power coming into the tree. (image 6)
7) Tape up the connectors nicely (image 7)
8) Fold the wires nicely against the cable and tape it again (image 8)

Once done it should look like image 9. Now just do that to all the trees.

Comments

[moose517]

@tbonz247, i would assume since the orange wire is what powers that tree, it doesn't need to continue down the line. The white needs to as its the common ground for them all.

[dany32412]

yep, exactly

[tbonz247]

in image 5... what did u do with the other orange wire... the side not crimped...