Lighted Christmas Parade

[pvtjorge]

Silsbee, TX

"Christmas in the Big Ticket "Lighted" Parade"
December the 3rd.


For the past four years I have been the lone MVer showing patriotism at Christmas in the parade.


For you MVer's in the area please come help me. It is a big parade and a large crowd. Bring candy to throw. Hope you can make it.


Fill out the registration form.

http://silsbeechamber.com/silsbee-december-events.htm


Ken

 

[bmH1065]

Do you have pictures of your lighted MV?

 

[CARNAC]

Yes, how do I put Christmas lights on my deuce for a parade??

 

[pvtjorge]

"Yes, how do I put Christmas lights on my deuce for a parade??"
Well for starters you need a 24volt to 120volt inverter, then you use your imagination. Do you have kids, I bet they would love to help. A Duece wrapped with lots of muilticolored lights would look great

"Do you have pictures of your lighted MV?"
Yes I probably have pictures of my MV which is a Jeep and Trailer around here somewhere on the other computer.
It is not decked out at the moment. that is something I will be doing in the coming days.

 

[txmytx_catahoula]

OH MAN!! My boy's soccer team qualified for district, which happens to be in Brenham on the same day. Momma and my girl already have two parades on the 3rd here in Port Arthur and Groves. Looks like we'll have to look foward to next year. Good Luck!

 

[SGTStewart]

Here is my M109 I did up a couple of years ago. I put a 12 volt to 110 volt inverter under the passenger seat, ran wires through existing hole in the back of the cab down to the battery box and wired it to the rear battery ( 1 - 12 volt battery). I use 550 para cord strung to the box how i wanted the lights and then i zip tied the lights to the para cord. I ran a short extension cord between soft top and the back of cab to plug lights in. When at home I pluged the lights into the house.

I will see about posting a picture of the inverter later.

 

[bmH1065]

Thanks for the pictures. I bought 30 boxes of led lights on close out last year at Walmart to do my truck. Found out today that they decided to not have Christmas parade this year but will decorate it any way. I built a 24 to 12 volt converter that works on small scale but haven't tried it on large yet.

 

[USAFSS-ColdWarrior]

We ran our deuce in the San Angelo Texas Christmas Lights Parade last year - 2010.

We'll be doing it again this year.

Yes, how do I put Christmas lights on my deuce for a parade??

Carnac:
We borrowed a 120v 2K generator and simply threw it into the back of the Deuce for the parade.
After the parade, we returned the GenSet and parked the Deuce in our driveway - hooking the lights up to an extension cord.

Quick and simple - and great since we still don't own a genset.


John

 

[jwright]

I just put a generator in the back. I used strong earth magnets and a ton of zip ties to hold the wires.

 

[pvtjorge]

Thanks for the photos, that should help CARNAC out very much. Nothing to it but fun.

I use zip ties and clear plastic tape.

 

[bmH1065]

Nice.

 

[USAFSS-ColdWarrior]

I just put a generator in the back. I used strong earth magnets and a ton of zip ties to hold the wires.

Neither Soldier A nor Soldier B looks like they could pass the pre-enlistment physical.

Oh, and ....

Jingle bells, Jingle bells.... ZIP TIES all the way ! ! !

 

[4x4 Forever]

Jingle bells, Jingle bells.... ZIP TIES all the way ! ! !

That reminds me of the time my dad took my brother and I to Mickey D's for supper right before Christmas one year.

Imagine, if you will, a 40 YO man singing the 12 days of Christmas into the order microphone at the drive through. Imagine, if you will, two boys, GLUED to the floorboard when we drove up to the window...DAD, KNOWING full well, we went to school with just about everyone working that night...

 

[Amer-team]

Thank you for the tips on the lighting.

There will be a Christmas parade in Centralia WA on the evening of Dec. 17th and they are looking for lighted vehicles. Someone called me and i was trying to figure out how to run the lights. May try to light up the 5 T.

 

[mckeeranger]

We used a generator as well. The cargo cover bows always look good with strings of lights.

Sorry, no pictures. Believe it or not, nobody thought to take any. We did get second place in the "Organization" category, which was cool.

We're in again this year, but I hope it's warmer. It was 17 F last year. (I know SGTSTewart from MN won't be impressed with that.)

 

[pvtjorge]

I finally got some lights strung on the jeep. I don't know why but I can't get the thumbnail to do right on here.

 

[bmH1065]

Nice picture.

 

[pvtjorge]

At staging area this evening. From the time we got rolling at the start to the end
was an hour and 15 minutes. Too busy throwing candy to take any pics of the crowd

 

[txmytx_catahoula]

Boy, they turned our GREAT!! Looks like y'all had fun!

 

[pvtjorge]

I intended to link two different photos but I put the same one in twice, it's changed now.

I noticed that when I take a photo of the lights in the dark with flash on, it comes out messed up. So I tried the Red Eye mode with the flash and it came out better.