Journal · 10 articles
Scenes & Holidays
Halloween, July 4th, game day and every occasion in between.
Scenes & Holidays · 6 min
Easter and Spring Pastel Lighting Scenes for Your Home
Pastels are the hardest colors a roofline can show. Thraxel RGBWW pixels blend a 2700K warm-white diode into color to make lavender, mint and peach that actually read from the street.
Scenes & Holidays · 6 min
Halloween Lighting Scenes for the Whole House in PA
Orange and purple on the roofline, green on the porch, all from your phone. Thraxel permanent pixels run 16 million colors, so Halloween is a tap, not a ladder.
Scenes & Holidays · 6 min
July 4th Red, White and Blue Roofline Lighting
A July 4th scene on permanent RGBWW lighting runs red, a true white from a dedicated 2700K diode, and blue in any pattern you like, and it covers Memorial Day and Labor Day too.
Scenes & Holidays · 5 min
St. Patrick's Day Green Lighting for Your Roofline
Green is the brightest color a pixel makes, so a St. Patrick's Day scene on permanent RGBWW lighting needs to be dialed down, not up. How we tune it, and how it handles March sleet.
Scenes & Holidays · 6 min
Game Day Lighting in Black and Gold for Western PA
Game Day is a named scene on every Thraxel permanent install: gold pixels with dark gaps along the roofline, on with one tap before kickoff and back to warm white after the final whistle.
Scenes & Holidays · 5 min
Valentine's Day House Lighting Scenes in Red and Pink
February in Western PA is dark by 5:30. A Valentine's scene on Thraxel permanent lighting runs red and soft pink from RGBWW pixels, and it is one of the named scenes loaded on every install.
Scenes & Holidays · 5 min
Penguins, Pirates and Team Color Lighting Scenes
The Game Day scene runs black and gold, the color shared by Pittsburgh's major hockey, baseball and football teams, so one scene works year-round no matter which season is on.
Scenes & Holidays · 5 min
Running a Music-Synced Lighting Show at Home
Music sync is built into the Thraxel Lighting app, letting individually addressable pixels react to a song in real time rather than running a fixed color loop.
Scenes & Holidays · 5 min
The Everyday Warm White Scene, Explained Honestly
Everyday Warm runs a dedicated 2700K diode instead of mixing red, green and blue, and it costs about $52.80 a year to run six hours a night on a typical 168-LED home.
Scenes & Holidays · 5 min
Birthday and Graduation Lighting for the Whole House
A permanent RGBWW system can hold any of 16 million colors for a night, turning a roofline into a birthday or graduation display without a single string of party lights.