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Twinkling lights on the Christmas tree add to the excitement during Christmas especially when these lights are used in huge numbers. Hanging lights on the Christmas tree is traditional and popular inn most of the families. Unfortunately these tiny little decorations could end up being dangerous. The entire lighting process is quite daunting and irritating. Hence a little planning well in advance is always advisable. Take your time to plan and decorate the Christmas lights appropriately so that you can stay safe during this Christmas season.

In the year 2005, there was a video posted on YouTube displaying a house which had Christmas lights flashing in line with one of the familiar songs. This video was extended via emails all over the internet and could be seen on various websites thereby drawing attention towards these music controlled Christmas lights. It was definitely a very attractive and unique way of decorating the Christmas tree. This was done by an electrical engineer named Carson Williams, living in Mason, Ohio. He had done this the very first time in 2004 and then expanded his version of the music lights in 2005n using 25,000 lights. The entire programming took around two months and the cost for this music controlled Christmas lights was $1,000.

The musical Christmas lights contain a light display which is synchronized to some musical track. The entire display is controlled by computer and the particular music could be played either on speakers or even broadcasted on the FM radio station. The different sections of lights keep flashing on co-ordination with the particular music. The displays quite often contain multiple songs wherein each song has its individual choreographed show.

The initial music controlled Christmas lights had been manually programmed and there are some enthusiasts who still do the programming by themselves. However, this programming process is time-consuming and might take weeks or even months to complete. This programming process requires lot of special equipments like solid state miniature relays along with technical knowledge so that there is proper co-ordination between the lights and sound. Many people prefer to buy the pre-programmed musical lights during Christmas which are on display at the retail stores.

If in case you are interested in using these music-controlled Christmas lights you need to plan in advance whether you will program it yourself or will buy the pre-programmed one from retail store. You might even wish to bound your display for certain hours so that you could be courteous towards your neighbors.