- We assembled the hardware and wrote 90% of the software that runs this display nearly from scratch.
- The new RGB TV Board has 1800 pixels. Every pixel is made up of 3 mini lights (red/green/blue), so in total there are 5400 lights with the RGB TV alone!
- This display uses around 3600 feet of extension cords.
- We built the RGB TV ourselves from scratch, just like the Drummer Boy.
- This display has 104 plugs/circuits. That’s almost double the number of plugs an entire average house has!
- There are 7 dedicated computers used to run the show, that are the size of a credit card.
- There is about 27,500 Traditional LED Christmas Lights in this display. That means there is more than a light per person for the entire population of Austin MN.
- The drummer boy is 16 feet tall, making him almost 3 people high.
- We built the drummer boy ourselves using corrugated plastic sheets and over 1,400 lights.
- Each singing tree has 750 lights, which is about double an average indoor Christmas tree.
- We start programming the show typically in March for the following year, taking about 8 months to create.
- During a typical holiday season, the full display will run almost 950 times.
- This entire display only uses the equivalent electricity of fifteen 100-watt light bulbs thanks to LED (Light Emitting Diode) technology.
- We have nearly all of the Christmas Lights put up by the week after Halloween (thanks to Minnesota winters!)