O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Thy leaves are so unchanging;
The easiest way to get out of the house, recycle and dispose of it!
Posts Tagged ‘Christmas Tree lights’
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Sunday, January 4th, 2015Andysworld! Advent Calendar – Dec 13 – x10 Computer Controlled Outside Christmas Tree Lights using VMware ESXi 5.0, a Windows 2008 Virtual Server and Web Services
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011We’ve now also, added the Christmas Tree lights outside, in the Magnolia Tree.
I also got a little bored, and decided rather than using a traditional plug-in 240v 24 hour timer, I would add them to the X10 Computer Controlled System, so I can turn them off via a VMware Virtual Server, running Windows 2008 Web Services!
Lindsey asked “Why?“ – I replied, because I can do stuff like that!
So in thoery I could grant access to this Website, on the Internet to turn them off remotely, or let other people turn them on or off!
The website is basic, but it functions, just need some graphics and CSS!
Update: I’d already written this blog, and submitted for publishing, before catching an Episode of “The Big Bang Theory” – The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarisation (s1e9) – at this very start of the episode, Howard Wolowitz also demonstrates a light and stereo being power-on via x10, and enabling public access to do the same thing, which Penny also states “Why?” – you can get a really cheap wireless remote from Radio Shack!
Okay, so I’m a nerd! But we all knew that!
Andysworld! Advent Calendar – Dec 11 – Fix the 44 year old Pifco Christmas Tree Lights AGAIN!
Sunday, December 11th, 2011A few minutes repairing and testing the 44 year old Christmas Tree lights, it’s a yearly event, after bringing the Christmas Decorations down from the attic.
It did not take me as long to fix this year, only four bulbs needed replacing to get them working again!
Merry Chrimbo Limbo
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009I hope you had a Merry Christmas, so Merry Chrimbo Limbo, that time in between Christmas and the New Year!
I’ve been helping out my friends again, whilst they catch a small break, feeding the pigs, chickens, ducks, sheep and rabbit. So I’m just thawing out….in between trying to work out why:-
- my 5,000,000 candle power halogen torch has stopped working;
- the 32A socket ring main tripped again – the last plugged to be pulled out, was the Chrimbo tree lights…!!!! and the fault cleared!
- and the car has decided to think it’s at the North Pole, reading greater than -15 degrees C all the time!
oh, and this is the best way to poach an egg, after many attempts, and with two free range eggs this morning I fancied poached eggs on toast for brunch. So I googled the net, and found this website.
The clingfilm method works!
Vintage/Rare Pifco Christmas Tree Lights
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009This morning, I’ve been using a digital volt meter to buzz through the Christmas Tree lights, a regular Christmas tradition, because they’d failed, a bulb had blown! So meter in hand, checking through 20 bulbs working out which bulb had blown, the first fuse bulb had blown, and the last twentieth bulb in thre set had blown. It was quick thinking I purchased many replacement sets, man years ago, when Woolworths were still trading.
Woolworth S1 12v 1.1w bulbs
Christmas Lights S1 Bulbs 12v
Christmas Lights S1 Bulbs 12v
These light sets are vintage (42+ years old) Rare Christmas Tree Lights manufactered by Pifco. Pifco manufactuered many plastic items in the 70s, and bicycle lights, and also Christmas Tree Lights.
Pifco Christmas Tree Lights on Christrmas tree
Modern christmas tree lights don’t have any shades, and are just bulbs or more modern LEDs, and I rather boring in my opinion. It gives our Christmas Tree that retro look…
The Andysworld Christmas Tree
The Andysworld Christmas Tree
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