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The show features a wide variety of songs and setups, including full video displays along the house's front panels featuring clips from movies like "Frozen 2." I even have a guitar pattern programmed on my big tree that plays the correct strum pattern and chords with the songs!" Like my icicles will play percussion and the trumpet solos, my miniature trees are the flutes and French horns. "Every light has a specific part to play. "I choose to program my shows like an orchestra," Small said. What sets Small's show apart from other light shows is that each light is programmed to light up individually, whereas other shows use what's called a "whole house effect generator." Every light plugged into the program will do the same effect, whether that's showing the same color or flashing in the same pattern. The neighborhood loops around, and Small has signs that will direct traffic to the right entrance. That's less energy than it takes to cook a roast on a stove or take a warm bath."Īs for the show itself, people interested in coming to see it can drive to 86 Circlewood in Tuscaloosa. "For a six hour show, it's pulling only five and a half amps on a 15 amp breaker. So I tested this a while ago to see how much it was pulling," he said. The reason is that he runs all of his lights at anywhere between 10-25% intensity and converts his currents to 12 volt DC voltage. Small said that surprisingly, the lights don't run up his electricity bill significantly. This year's setup took 2 weeks to finish. In preparation of this show, Small added several thousand new lights to the front of his house, each connected to panels he made by hand. From there, he can change the color of each light individually, or sync them to a pattern. Each light is programmed in a program that Small called a "mix between Excel and Paint." The program loads a massive spreadsheet, where the x-axis tells time increments and each box on the y-axis represents an individual light. Small walked through how exactly he designed the show: the entire yard runs off of a single laptop. This year, the show is 45 minutes long from start to finish, with 4 new songs added bringing the total up to 15 with over 20,000 total lights. Now that he's moved, he promises that his show hasn't gone away, and has only gotten bigger.
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Two years ago, Small lived off of Red Top Avenue in Cottondale, where some nights he would see over 100 cars a night. Family caused him to move back to the Tuscaloosa area, and he's continued the annual light show tradition, continuing to add on to the show's length and adding more lights.