50,000 lights, inflatables and more: Jacksonville teen creates eye-popping holiday light show

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There's hanging your lights over your windows and calling it a day, and then there's what this Mandarin teen did with 50,000 lights, hundreds iof man-hours and a computer.

A computer runs everything and Wolfram can control the whole thing from his cell phone, but nearly all of the lights are old-fashioned incandescent bulbs, just like the strings you probably threw out in the last few years because one bad bulb can create havoc on the whole string.

There are 172 different red, white or green items he can turn on and off. Huge stars on the roof, icicles on the eaves, a lake of light in the yard and spot-lit inflatables blink and flash in perfect time to the music, which visitors can hear by tuning the FM radios in their cars to 97.7 on the dial. Parts of the show are bright enough to set off the light sensors on the streetlight across the road.

The show started about 10 years ago, when Caleb's father, Doug, caught the light-show bug. He eventually got too busy to keep it up and Caleb was too young at the time to take over, so Doug sold all of his lights and equipment.

 

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