How To Do Christmas Lights To Music

Female 3 5mm aux plug.

How to do christmas lights to music. Step 3 plug a radio into the light control box s audio in port. There are a number of different approaches you can take to synchronize christmas lights with music though you will typically need to plan your display use the proper equipment and execute your plan. Solder soldering iron wire relay heat shrink recommended which relay to buy. Prepare your light show equipment.

Once you decided the scale of your light show now you will need to prepare for the equipment specifically the christmas lights. The best time to purchase your christmas light would be after christmas usually the price fall to 20 30 of the regular price. Male 3 5mm aux cord. The best time to buy lights is the day after christmas.

This is the basic understanding of how we can make multiple strands of christmas lights or any other electronic turn off and on to the pulse of music. For this music you will need tip31c npn transistor. You should give yourself at least six months to properly plan and create your full display though it can take longer especially when doing this for the first time. Check out walmart target lowe s home depot k mart and other department stores for the best deal.

Often you ll find lights that were normally priced around 2 a strand fall to 0 50. This box is what will synchronize the elements of your christmas display to the music. The radio should plug in using an 1 8 inch audio connection cable. There are many different ways to sync christmas lights to music but i couldn t find a modern tutorial on instructables about how to do it there s no need to do any programming at any point making your lights match up to music there s software that does all the complicated parts for you don t use something as low level as an arduino and relays use a network connected controller that can.

Use the internet to price hunt. The very first video i ever posted was about putting multicolored leds on my house so we could have all kinds of different colors and different effects for e. In this video i show how my musically synchronized christmas lights work. The light control box must be a musical light control box with synchronization programming.