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SCREENSHOT of Alek's 2014 Controllable Halloween Decorations for Celiac Disease

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• $1,000: Bronner's Christmas Wonderland - Christmas Lights Etc - Mr. Costumes
• $100: Anonymous - RTD Dude - Sparky - Bluto ($500)
• $1: Dirk and Kyle Komarnitsky ... and their Big Green Buddy and other $1-$99 contributions                     Click here for info on how to make a charitable donation for Celiac Disease

Franken-Homer Cursor: Remove - Tiny - Small - Normal - Big - HULK'in   Spooky Halloween Music

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Halloween main page - also includes historical/future stuff

• Halloween & Christmas FAQ should answer most questions - plus some misc. media reports
• The lights are wind powered and carbon neutral - Al Gore would be proud!
• The Halloween decorations throughout the years and even more cool Halloween pictures
• Other folks who have done nutty stuff like this and watch entertaining time-lapse footage of Halloween lights videos
• More about the Zany Guy behind all this and also see his Christmas Lights! ;-)

HULK says Puny Humans can add their spooky halloweeny comments in the Halloween Blog

While I appreciate the folks who have asked if they can donate/PayPal to cover the costs of the lights and (wind powered!) electricity, I've never asked for donations and don't plan to change that. It is a bit of work to put up all the Halloween stuff, but I enjoy doing it for the neighborhood kids and the web site is just my way of saying "Happy Halloween" and "Merry Christmas" to folks around the world. If you feel compelled to make some sort of donation, I've been involved with celiac disease so make a donation toward medical research - tell 'em Komar.Org sent 'ya! ;-)

BTW, for the actual night of Halloween, I have "HULK SMASH" audio playing really loud. So when the kids come by, I ask the smallest (and scare'dest one) kid to tell the Hulk to "Shut Up". It requires a little prodding, but eventually they will say "Be Quiet Hulk" ... and I, of course, hit the OFF button on my wireless X10 remote in my pocket and 'lo and behold, the Hulk is quiet ... since the speaker's power is toggled off. Always get a great response and that kid then feels pretty good! ;-)

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Circuit Layout & Electrical Analysis for Halloween 2014
Circuit   X10-Zone   Amps   Lights   Description
1-Balcony     1       0.8      300   Upper Roof Icicles and Purple Orb
1-Garage-E    1       5.0    2,200   Garage Icicles, Driveway RIP's & Graves, Lighted Arch
1-Panel-1     1       6.8    2,200   Upper Roof Icicles, Purple Orb, Snapping Spider, Pooh & Bubble Lights, Pumpkin Jack
2-Balcony     2       1.7      400   Bloody Hands, Pirates, Skulls, Witch, Hulk Light
2-Garage-E    2       1.3      600   Driveway Orange Rope Lights, BOO
2-Panel-2     2       4.2    1,400   Inflatable Grim Reaper on Motorcycle, Witches, Bats, Purple Rope Light, Candy Canes
2-Window-L    2       0.9      250   Lower Window Decorations
3-Balcony     3       1.7      400   Roof Pumpkins and Frankenstein, Balcony "Opera" Pumpkins, SpongeBob SquarePants
3-Panel-3     3       2.8      900   Giant Inflatable Pumpkin and Pumpkin Patch & Tree ... plus USA Flag!
3-Window-U    3       0.7      350   Upper Window Decorations
4-Balcony     4       1.5      400   Blue Rope Light around Balcony Skulls, RIP, Spider
4-Garage-W    4       0.8      100   Lighted Alien, Inflatable Headless Horseman
4-Panel-4     4       1.8      300   Inflatable Giant Green Skull and Lighted Skulls
5-Balcony     5       1.0      300   Railing Decorations and Skulls Light
Garage-W      5       0.9      100   Lighted & Inflatable FRANKENSTEIN
Panel-4       5       0.7      300   ON
6-Panel-4     6       1.1      400   OFF
Garage-W      6       0.9      100   LED Skeleton, Inflatable Homer Simpson - D'OH!
7-Office      *       1.1      300   Various stuff in the Haunted Office!   ;-)
                                        1:Brain Dude/Disco Ball   2:SpongeBob & Rainier Beer   3:Pumpkin & Plasma Ball
                                        4:Groovy Lava Lamp        5:Skull/Hulk Lamp            6:Light-Up/3-D Cube
TOTALS       19      35.7   11,300   TOTALS

A question often asked is how much does it cost to light the holiday display - the electrical meter does spin a bit faster. That's easy to calculate - with all 11,300 lights ON, the current draw is 35.7 amps. Multiply by 120 Volts and divide by 1,000 to get 4.2 KiloWatts. The electricity cost in Colorado is about 10 cents per KiloWatt-Hour, so to run the display continuously for an hour, it costs 42 cents/hour - not much! But remember that Internet Surfers are turning the lights on & off ... so divide that by two and then multiply by the 4 hours/day it's active, and the electricty costs 84 cents per day. Multiply that by 31 days and for $26, a whole month of holiday fun is provided to people around the world ... plus some awareness and thousands of dollars in donations for Celiac Disease Research!

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