The last of this year's display videos has been uploaded to YouTube!

This year's songs are Suite Christmas Rush by Carrie Lyn Infusion, Music Box Dancer by DJ Schwede, Wizards In Winter by Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Carol Of The Bells by David Foster.

You can view most of them by going to this YouTube playlist.

Rain has been forecast from late evening until tomorrow morning, and clouds are developing.

For the moment the show will continue as planned but if it begins raining the lights will be turned off early.

Three more videos of this year have been posted. One more remains which will hopefully be completed by the end of week.

Yesterday was the launch of this year's Christmas display. It went off mostly as intended, although the 'sticking' issue returned on one section of the mega tree once again. I'm hoping it will be corrected for tonight.

A video from the launch is now available on the video page. Pictures and videos of individual songs are not available just yet.

Well tonight the lights were set to turn on at 8:30 pm for a few minutes to find out whether the digital timers were set up properly. Whilst some of them were a little too slow, this was nothing compared to the problems the mega tree suffered.

The 'sticking' problem has returned. This is where certain strands of LEDs on the mega tree turn on and 'stick' in the on state until the power is physically cut off by switching off power to the controllers.

So the fast fix... another trip to the shops, another $50-$60 to be spent. I guess this is to be expected, but on the eve of opening night and less than 24 hours to go, I'm feeling a bit frustrated. I'm sure the smiles of little (and big!) kids tomorrow night will make this all worth it though.

The sticking issue that the Mega Tree encounted seems to have been fixed now but I now am having lights on the magic cave fail - either staying on or not lighting at all. The white colour works as intended but the blue and green don't.

Switching one of the colours to a spare channel on a different controller don't seem to fix the issue, but running these colours directly (not through a controller) do work, so I'm a little puzzled as to what is causing the problem.

Update: disconnecting the faulty set and starting the connection process from scratch appears to have fixed the issue. Using a test set on the original mega tree channels however shows it is faulty.