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Ok, now that I have the dimensions for the window, it's time to get down and dirty on the project. I had to make some major adjustments to the orginal plan. The orginal plan (see below) had 6 vertical gridlines and 6 horizontal gridlines. This was great in theory, but the problem was it would leave 6-8 inches between gridlines. That's a lot of wasted space on the window. So, I changed the scheme to have 18 horizontal gridlines and 14 vertical gridlines. Sounds excessive to you? Well, it probably is. But, I figured 18 and 14 gridlines with 2-3 inch spacing was better than 6 gridlines with 6-8 spacing. So, check out my latest drawing which is to scale. Inches are listed down the left side and across the top. Note that I made a color change. The white lights will be yellow or amber instead. They are yellow in this updated diagram. 
I also added the final channel. The 16th channel is currently a white, window outline (ropelight?). So this entire grid can run off of one controller! I may get two controllers to get better control over the rows. If I learn enough at the Chicago Mini, I may try to build a wireframe reindeer head to sing the songs. Just an idea, but I'd need more channels for that too.
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