Christmas Party/Light Parade **THIS SAT**

Hey everyone, trying to set this up. I know the website says meeting or Xcursion on the 7th (Friday). I was thinking the 8th or 15th for the Party and Light Parade. Chime in with thoughts on the date.

Also, would like some input on food...catered or Potluck style BYOB? I thought last year was pretty darn good, where did that food come from, PHXX?

Remember, gifts should be automotive related under $25. We'll do the whole drawing raffle tix again so I am sure not to win anything...

Let's get this thing going and get everyone together with their X's a decked out in sparkiling colored lights!

SWANKy is invited as well. Would love to see those beastly trucks in lights!

***UPDATE:
Annual AZXC Christmas party will be Saturday Dec. 8th at Conundrum's House. It will be catered (Baja Fresh spread), so we can do the light parade first then party afterwards. We will stage for the parade at my place (large parking lot & close to ASU campus, Tempe Town Lake, then ZooLights etc;) Let's meet at 5:00pm since the sun will set around 5:21. If not going on light parade, we should be at Conundrum's place round 6:45pm. Please bring beverages of your choice!!!

My Address:
540 N May St #1049
Mesa, AZ. 85201
480-251-7976

Conundrum's (Adam) Address
3940 W Claremont St
Phoenix, AZ 85019
602-377-7922

Remember that 4Runner I purchased. Welllll......

Money is safe and sound in my safe. Wife is having a Hannukkah party on 8th and it's the GoDizzle Christmas party on 15th, so looks like either way I'm screwed for being able to make it.

What time do you get home from work Tim? I pretty much drive past your place on my way home. 101 / University right? I can drop off the $$$ sometime, or we can meet up this weekend or somethin. My Cell: 602-214-5403

Cool, I get home tonight around 5:30pm and will be there all night long. I'll give ya a call when I am on my way hm.

How is the 4runner shaping up 4 ya?

I've discussed this with Joannie and we would be happy to still host the X (less) Mas Party this year.

If you don't get the catering sorted out, we could always do a pot luck. I was thinking something along the lines of bringing deserts to share, since there was so much left over last year.

Either way, you guys figure out which day you want it, the 8th or the 15th as Tim had suggested, and we'll be ready.

Catch you all later.
Adam, Joannie, Terra and Clifford

YAY!!! 3 cheers for the Conundrum Clan.

As for the date, I'll chime in...the 8th works best 4 me.

Potluck is good with me, plus we save the club $$ for something cool like Toys for Tots, shirts and stickers maybe...

I'll get a "parade" route mapped out for the lights. Probably be similar to last year, cruise the Zoo and what not.

You might consider going through the Tempe town lake again, I thought it was funny how we were getting the looks more than the Car club that was there.

Note: Rope lights take a lot of juice, use regular lights and you can put a lot more on. Also consider where they may be rubbing the paint or get pinched or pulled on when driving off road. I didn't have much usable after CK. Not to mention one less antenna.

Good advice on the rope lights. We will hit Tempe Town Lake again. That was great last year. Got an open seat for you Adam if you wanna be the designated "parade wave" guy...

Also, if ANYONE needs a fresh battery give me a call. 480-251-7976.

4Runner is pretty much ready to go. Managed to get all the front end done on my own eventually. Rear Leaf springs are going on this weekend. Then she's ready to roll. Been to hot during the summer in my garage to work on her, but now it's perfect.

Didn't bring the money with me to work today, so it'll have to be another day - unless you fancy a drive out to my place which is on Gilbert / Southern. Or Tom (Pluvo) lives near me, I can give him the $$$ if he plans on making the meeting on 7th. I won't be at that meeting as father in law is celebrating Hannukkah that evening.

This is one event I wish I was still here for. We're moving on the 6th of December(next week) and heading on home to Houston. I've purchased quite a few lights for the Xterra, I'll just run my lights from Phoenix to Houston just for ya'll. Hope everyone has a blast.

My vote is for the 15th. My sons first B-Day party is on the 8th. I don't know if I will be able to make it to the AZXC Christmas Party.

Well i think the 8th or the 15th will work for me . Now the lights
Waldo

The 8th works best for me since the 15th is the company party,

Now I just have to find my lights & stuff.

For everyone looking to go out and purchase lights for their Xterra. I've found that the best place to find a wide variety of awesome lights is Target. This is where I purchased my 'twinkling' lights. They also have most of the lights set up in small bundles so that you may see what the effect is and how they look.

I'm down for the 15th.

Well I have about 300 lights on my truck now... I'm amazed I didn't get pulled over heading home Saturday after running Bull Dog with the yota.

Oh yeah... And those lights... Yeah don't put them up in the rain... You can still be shocked by them even without bare wires

I'm ready as soon as a date is firemed up

-MadManX

Check my first post for updates...

Yeah I kinda just now noticed that Show's how much I go back and re-read.

Anyway... I'll dbl check with Sheila but I'm sure we will probably be there. Oh.. I owe dues... Will there be anyone to pay yet?

-MadManX

Yes. I will have the club funds & account info by Saturday so we can get things straight.

Hope to see the Blue and Red machines there!

This is who I have attending so far:
Conundrum
FrijolesX
T-Ray
Onix
pluvo
MadManX
Yasha
Penski61
AZ-Ted
karlover007
SoldierX

Post up ASAP if you are planning on being there so I can order food accordingly...NOSUP4U? AZ-Ted? DBAX? PHXX? SoldierX? Bueller...Bueller??

umm, what about me.... I'm there. I won't be making the light parade, but afterwards I'm there

Cool Yasha hope to see you there .

well i dont know if im offically part of swanky but i did get my tires pee'd on by the queen bee herself D along with Brent , hopefully not at the same time lol , still amazed D was able to get the tire lol , if its cool with you guys i should be able to make the actual party

Im sure it would be ok dont forget the lights******

You running the MT's yet Penski?

As long as come with a major light show on all that custom tube work you got going on!!!

And bring a sweet ass Xmas present for me!

i wont be able to do the light run but ill be able to make it to adams , just let me know what i need to bring

and yeah onix im running 3 mts right now , i was supposed to have the 4th a week and a half ago , im having issues with the guys over there they dont seem to know what they are doin

Aaron, you have a pm

Yeah I got all 5 of mine taged at Fat Tire... Even the one on the carrier.

I gotta hunt down some more lights and see if I can get the Fronty decked out on the little 400w inverter. I might have to buy lights since everything I had that worked ended up on the X... Anyone know of any sales this week for lights?

-MadManX

Party will be catered by Baja Fresh. Please bring beverages of your choice!!!

Don't forget to go out and get a gift for the exchange!!!!!!! $25 or less and wrap it up nice and pretty.

I'm not going to make it to the light parade, but I'll be going to the party. I'll bring a gift for the gift exchange, as well as my membership dues...

Sorry I'm chiming in so late. I'm hoping to make both, but won't know until last minute. I was invited to do Ajax Saturday with a church group and committed a couple of weeks ago. Do I need to bring anything? One more thing, how's everyone hooking up their lights. I mean the best way since I keep killing fuses in the inverter. Some lights are LEDs which don't use much, but some are not and I have no idea how much juice they're using. The inverter is 250 watts, but through a power plug it only gives 100 watts. Should I upgrade to a stronger inverter?

Get a 400w inverter and you should be fine.

Just bring beverage or desert of your choice, food is being done like last year (Baja Fresh).

Hope to see ya there!!

for the elephant exchange, what do we need to get?

an elephant duh :rolleyes: jk , i think he said something automotive up to $25

be careful what u wish for, u might get it

Looks like I'll be there for both events Satutday. The trip to Ajax was just cancelled on the account of possible rain. Pfffft, weaklings. Hell, that would have been the best time to go. That church group needs to be shown a thing or two

What'cha'll want for Xmas?............

Uh, under $25 that is.

H e double hockey sticks and church dont mix!

Yayyy!! Georgie's gonna make it! Another kick a$$ Gen1 besides me and pluvo.

I want my SAS done for Xmas pleeeeeeaaasse!

Yah, I'll do your SAS right after you do mine

Yaaaaaaaa .... Shouldnt we do my SAS first ! that would make it the first SASed Gen2 in the club.

I'll be coming for the party and probably for the light parade too.

Signing off 4 the weekend. If you need to contact me call 480-251-7976

My address again:

Los Racimos Condos
540 N May St #1049
Mesa, AZ. 85201

See you all at 5:00pm on Staurday!

This is a bit late & probably more info than you need, but...

400W is the biggest inverter you can run off of a 12v outlet & even then I wouldn't run it at more than 80% load. The outlet fuses (& inverter too) are 20A (I think) so that shouldn't be a problem.

Remember: Watts / Volts = Amps

Rope lights are about 35W & .3A per 18' length. Most lighted wreaths, strings of 100 mini lights & 20" light 'sculptures' run about 40W & .33A. LED lights run about 1/10th draw for the same number of lights. With 200W available (250W @ 80%) you're looking at about 5 sets of lights or so.

I'm running a trio of 400W inverters with ~200W the biggest load on any one inverter.

If you need lights, try Big Lots. It's kinda ghetto, but the have a bunch of stuff really cheap. Personally, I like to stock up after Xmas @ 75% off.

I have more than one power outlet in the vehicle. Can I run another inverter from another point in the vehicle, or is that still an overload? Power plugs in the dash, center console and in the rear panel. Never done this before, but I did blow a fuse. I'm looking for a replacement fuse, but will probably have to look in town tomorrow, it takes 35A fuses.

Are we going to have an official (or unofficial) meeting tomorrow? I'd like to discuss the coming events for next year - meetings and Xcursions. Another item of interest is the maintenance of the website.

I would think all of the outlets share the same circuit, sharing that 35A fuse.

Keep away from the rope lights, they suck a lot of current, it could be just because there are lights every inch or so, instead of every 4-6 inches apart.

Can't wait to have you all over tomorrow and see the pretty lights, Terra's going to think she's getting an X for her X-mas, that's what she calls anything Christmas related this year "My X-mas".

Actually I'm going to come to the parade, getting all the lights set up tomorrow, I hope

I'm sure that the accessory outlets are on a seperate circuit from the lighter outlet but I don't know whether or not those two share a circuit. I seem to recall reading posts about them failing seperately so I'm inclined to think they're independant.

As for multiple inverters, I'm running 3 - 1 off the rear outlet, 1 off the front outlet & one under the hood off the battery. Most 400W inverters come with both 12v & batery clamp hookups.

I've had good luck with rope lights so far (knock wood) & think they look pretty cool.

Thanks everyone for coming over. We had a great time.

Merry X-Mas!!!

hey guys im sorry i didnt show or call clubfrontier ran edwards park , well it was snowing 3 trucks got stuck in mud and one just about fell off the side of a cliff cause he just about slide off , and my phone died , all in all it was a good trip , but like i said sorry for not showing

Thank you Joannie & Adam & Family Again for haveing us over for the hollidays and hosting the club Christmas Party.
Happy Holidays from Waldo's family

Thanks Adam for having me over. It's always a pleasure.

Awesome party and thanks to everyone for making it. The trucks and lights looked awesome!

BIG thank you to Adam and Joannie. Your guys hospitality is 2nd to none always.

Merry Christmas from the Ray's!

Terra loves the Hello Kitty soap dispenser. Thanks! She finally convinced me to empty one of our existing dispensers into it. She asked all day long when we were going to go get soap for it.

Thanks for having us Adam! Are you going to post any of the pictures you took? and Is anyone else posting pictures?

randys got some good pictures.... Hint Hint..... :p

*Bump*

I want to see pics of all the pretty lights