Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQs)
About 3 weekends (about 6 days).
In 2006, this viral video of a residential homes’ Christmas lights flashing to synchronized music caught my eye and from that, Bluebonnet Lights was born.
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There are currently 6 houses connected, 3 on each side of the street.
Each neighbor owns and stores their own equipment, including the controllers and the lights. Everyone agrees to install and connect their lights before the show starts in November.
Unlike some other displays that ask for money for their favorite charity, Bluebonnet Lights will remain guilt-free. We don’t ask for any contributions, and just make the show about our gift of lights to the visitors.
The lights are put up over several weekends, but they are all finished before the show goes live after Thanksgiving.
This year, we added “Feliz Navidad” and “Police Stop My Car”. These sequences took at least 12 hours of work, spread over several weeks.
4 of the 6 houses in the show have solar panels. The electricity generated during the day (especially during the summer) is banked and used to power the Christmas lights, among other things.
The music is not affected by the weather. Several of the houses in the display use GFCI outlets to power the Christmas lights, and these will sometimes trip while the show is playing, because wet conditions will sometimes cause a ground fault. We are working to minimize these disruptions, but the result is that when it rains, some parts of the display don’t work.
We use a low-power FM transmitter, permitted under FCC part 15 rules.
Yes. All the lights are synchronized and controlled from one place.