Setup

Installation started the first weekend of November.  Each phase of the project was completed in small steps to help eliminate the stress of doing the entire project in a single weekend or in a straight shot.  

This is a picture of the inside of one of the major components of the system.   

Mega Tree: Mounted to a pole which has been installed 16" deep in the ground with the top just below the dirt line. A counter load cable is installed from the house to the pole, to transfer the load of the falling star from the pole to the house.

To keep the pole center and from falling over, guy wires are installed on each side of the pole using 16' screw anchors capable of supporting of 450 pounds each. 

The base ring is installed, which is made of PVC and electrical conduit, and then 96 strings of lights are installed around the ring. (24 White, 24 Red, 24 Blue, and 24 Green) 

Parkway Tree:

Really, there is no fancy tricks to the parkway tree. You just get on a ladder, get in the tree and start wrapping over 150 stands on lights to the tree.  One at a time.  There are 15,000 lights in the Parkway Tree.  Voltage is supplied by wiring installed going over head. 

Lights are installed with one light bulb spacing, first green then blue (This is the make removal easier). Since there are so many lights on the tree, Blue and Green lights are supplied by two different sources.