[OMS_MANAGERS] Up lighting street trees

[Downtown Bend, OR]

Hey All,

Our City found that running power from the tree wells didn't work well.
When we used them for lighting up trees, the cords were often
cut/vandalized, and folks figured out that they could plug in their cell
phones, electric blankets, etc. into the plugs under the grates in the tree
wells.  It actually created more of a problem, so we redid things so that
we could pull power from the tops of buildings and light posts for lighting
up trees in Downtown.

Our twinkle lights stay up year-round and then we agument them with
additional lights during the holidays. Everyone loves our twinkle lights
and we get comments on them all of the time.  We have custom male and
female ends that are attached to SPT2 Outdoor/UV rated wire (500 ft.
spools). We run the wires to specific spots on the trees where we attach C7
sockets onto the wire. We use C7 warm white acrylic random twinkle bulbs
(last forever for the most part and easy to replace).    Everything has
been purchased between Christmas Central and 100bulbs.com.

I hope this is helpful.
Mindy Aisling
Executive Director
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*Downtown Bend Business Association*
Talk or Text - 541-788-3628    www.downtownbend.org
916 NW Wall Street in Downtown Bend Oregon

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On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 6:44 PM LDA Main Street <
ldamainstreetmanager at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Steve,
>
> The City of Lebanon is currently working on a tree replacement project,
> which will include electrical installation in the tree wells for lighting.
> We are still in the process of digging out the roots. The City has done
> their homework. What would you like to know?
>
> Cassie
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019, 4:41 PM <steve at cateringbydeangelos.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
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>> Downtown Tigard has secured funding to up light street trees on Main
>> Street- The concept is to get away from Twinkle lights that require
>> installation and de installation annually and in some community invites
>> vandalism.
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>> Our thought is an LED programmable light (2 per tree) that we can change
>> colors throughout seasons or use generic white- we have plugs at each tree.
>>
>>
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>> Have other communities ventured this direction?
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>> Thought, comments, product sourcing, successes are appreciated as we
>> begin this exploration.
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>>
>> Steve DeAngelo
>>
>> Catering Consultant
>>
>> PO Box 230382
>>
>> Portland, Oregon 97281
>>
>> 503-620-9020 Office
>>
>> 503-793-9020 cell
>>
>>
>>
>
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