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Sale/Trade / Home Depot wants to trade your old lights for credit towards LEDs!

« on: October 28, 2009, 03:35:57 pm »

Hey guys, Home Depot is doing an LED light promo too. Only valid 11/5/09 to 11/15/09, take up to 5 strands of incandescent lights to HD and get $3 off per string per box of LED lights (seems to be only the HD Home Accents brand) that you buy. They are advertising one box in particular, a 50-count LED strand for $5.97 - $3 coupon = $2.97 per box.
They don't specify any length requirements, and it says the can be broken as well, they're recycling them for materials. (Check the page for the recycling process, kinda cool, IMO)

Here's the full fine print:

Valid 11/5/09 through 11/15/09 and redeemable for a $3 discount on a single receipt in-store purchase of LED lights at participating U.S., Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands The Home Depot stores. Receive the discount for each string recycled (limit 5 discounts per customer). Offer not valid on (a) prior purchases or (b) purchases from any The Home Depot affiliate store. Offer may not be combined with any other offer, promotion or special incentive program or used as payment on any The Home Depot credit account.

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Sale/Trade / Re: Geeks.com - $60 1000ft CAT5e with free shipping

« on: October 12, 2009, 11:33:14 am »

I just want to note that the geeks.com cable isn't very good for cold weather conditions. I live in southern IL and if you leave this stuff out for a season of 2-4 weeks it breaks easily. It actually came down OK, but when I tried to use it again the next year, the jacket cracked like crazy. I paid only about $75 for it as well so it isn't a big deal, but I agree that it's much better to find stranded cable, particularly if it's plenum grade or has been marked for outdoor use. Yes, it's more expensive, but it pays for itself after only 1-2 years of replacing "one-time-use" cable.

The Porch / Re: Designing a website

« on: September 18, 2008, 11:52:05 am »

There's a lot of good suggestions coming in here. I've got a lot of experience with entire site executions, so let me know if I can be of assistance to you. Always willing to help out a fellow blinky addict if the schedule allows for it.

Lynx Freestyle / Re: Lynx Freestyle FAQ's

« on: February 03, 2008, 01:21:40 am »

Some of the great potential in this controller is that it's larger (more channels) than any other common DIY unit, but we can still use the SSR COOP boards that are common to the Olsen 595 and Grinch controllers. The board doesn't have to be 128 channels, though. It is scalable, so that you can put 16 or 64 or whatever amount of channels you want on it, and add on more for future displays.