I’ll gladly take the blame for you @TOG99. I’m happy to continue giving any useful info I can. I think you’ll be surprised at how quickly 500 pixels will go. I just now realized that I posted my outdoor lights last year as well:
Those icicles were old AC (non-led) lights handed down from my in-laws. I believe I had around 400 pixels used last year. This year I’m close to 2,500.
I know what you mean about trying to reuse props for various occasions. I was tempted to repurpose my Halloween spider web as some sort of megatree for Christmas:
In the end though, I wanted more strands and also wanted to make sure that the pixels were more directly pointed at the main viewing area (instead of the rope style I used for the spider web). So I didn’t end up reusing it this time.