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Re: Newbie looking for help/advice
Thanks for the advice! Do these expensive movers only run off of computer programs? Or is there a simpler way of running them with simple functions? Such things as a board in the back of the room that turns them on/off, press a button and the twirl with this design, press another and the twirl with a different design... such things as that? If there is this easier function how hard is it to set up? I really don't have a lot of computer experience, truth be told I am the muscisian not the...
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Re: ADJ X-Move LED moving head...will there be an elation version soon?
I've actually never heard of a single 20W LED that does RGB mixing. I am more curious as to what it really is. That being said if there are such things as 20W LEDS then it would just seem that they would eventually replace conventional bulbs. This would be different than the Impression. Basically take a design spot and replace the bulb with a bright led - less power and no fans! I appreciate you letting me know as I just bought 4 design spot 250's and was going to be mad at myself for not...
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Re: ADJ X-Move LED moving head...will there be an elation version soon?
haha.. You made a great choice my freind. No LED moving heads will compare to Design Spot 250.. maybe in 2013.. maybe. Anyways.. its 20 1watt LED's really close together on one circuit board.. I have not seen it yet, but I confirmed it was 20 1watt LED's on a square grid.. Something like that. Best regards,
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Re: Design Spot 575 VS. Power Spot 575
Hello, ybravo. i really like he design spot 575 cause you have so many features on it. for instance 2 rotating gobo wheels is almost unheard of on a 575 in that price range, CMY, animation wheel. i would say from a programming standpoint you could do more with a design spot 575 then a power spot 575. and i have not heard of the power spots coming in white. i'll look in to this for you. sincerely,
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Re: Design Spot 575 VS. Power Spot 575
Power Spot 575 vs Design Spot 575. It really depends on what features you need. CMY, frost, zoom, animation wheel, iris, and dual rotating gobo wheels can be very useful and powerful tools. The question is do you need them? That is something you have to weigh out for yourself. Power Spots also don't come in a white form, only the DS line does. I can say from my stand point, I use iris a lot do to the nature of shows I do. So every mover I own has to have one. I can also say that the PS 575IE...
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Re: Design Spot 575 VS. Power Spot 575
Serra.. I have to say you know your stuff! So i'll just say the same thing Serra said with a different twist. IRIS is an incredible feature with Iris pulse and being able to pinpoint objects. So the Power Spot 575IE gives you that option. -Now- The Power Spot 575ie literally weighs 42 lbs. This fixture is so light to hang you want to hug it. This is because it has a multi voltage electronic transformer, so you can plug it in 220V or 110V and it auto senses the voltage. If you ever run 220V...
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Re: Where do I get fixture profiles for Elation DLED TriBrick 36 and Tri64B?
Yes I own 8 DLED 36's and I just bought four Elation Design Spot 250's and Compu. I can't get the design spots to show their beams in the 3D viz...although it does show the channels are working in the DMX section of Compu. I will be adding four Tri64B's and five TriBrick DLED's 36. I am starting to program today...Compu just got here today (week late because FedEx couldn't find my house). The laptop also arrived today but the harddrive was broken so I have to wait until Wednesday or Thursday...
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Re: design 108
Did you ever get this fixture working? What are your thoughts? I am debating on some new wash fixtures for my light rig and can't decide between Design 36 (already have 8), Colorado 1's, Tri64B's or something else.
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Re: design 108
I never got a chance to hook it up to control do to missing parts. I do own several colorado 1 and they are not a good wash lite. They have a very bright narrow Beam and make good beam lights . I like my design 36 as a wash unit and use them in that fashion often. .
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Re: design 108
Thanks for the info. I am looking to add some wash fixtures to my new stage. I have truss with 6 Elation DLED 36's uplighting an Austrian sewn backdrop, I have added 6 of the new TriBrick LED's as eye candy on the rear truss. Now I just need to get rid of my Source 4's with color changers. I am keeping to S4's to light the singers up front but would like to add 2 to 3 LED wash fixtures on each tree to wash the band (9 piece band). I've been recommended everything. I would like to be in the...
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Re: Fading to black
I just tested a Magic-260 with a Design Spot-250 and was able to program a fade out. To program a fade out, set your dimmer to zero (0), add your desired fade time and save it to a desired page/button location.
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Re: Fading to black
Jay- the problem may be with your Design Spot-250 profile. I don't recall it ever having a problem but from what you’re describing, it sounds like it was written incorrectly. Like John was describing, there is an option to set how you want your channels to react to fade time but it isn't in the Magic-260 controller. It's in the PC profile creator program. You can select between "Snap After Fade", "Snap Before Fade" or "Fade" for each channel. From what you're describing, the Dimmer channel,...
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Re: design 108
I like my design 60 strip allot and if you used them to up light the drop it would look great. Then you could use the 6 DLED36 up front.
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Re: design 108
Thanks for the pics! Does the Design 36 have the plastic diffusion plate in it? Also, I compared a 575W S4 to a design 36 and the S4 is brighter on some colors (yellows, oranges, whites, etc...) but the DLED 36 makes a much more "dense" red, green, blue, pink, and teal. So I thought maybe getting the 3W DLED 108IP might be a better deal (wider beam and a bit brighter) compared to a DLED 26 without diffusion. However, after doing a show this weekend I have noticed that the musicians perceive...
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Re: Pan Limit on DS250
Man, I hate it when I spend the time to type out a long post, then turn around and figure out the answer to my own question!! Anyway, instead of deleting the question, I figured I would post the answer in case anyone else had the same problem: It seems that my INIT scene in my Design Spot 250 PAGE had all the pan channels set to 85...go figure! So, of course I just set them to 0, saved, and now I'm rockin' and rollin' again. I guess sometimes you just have to ask the question to trigger the...
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Re: Coliseum Layout
Yeah that's what I'm talking about. What I want to do is from the for the 3d easy show design a coliseum environment that closely resembles the Greensboro Coliseum Complex or the RBC Center here in NC. Which I have seen impressive light systems. Even If I can't do that, I would also like Some kind of ready made layouts with staging and everything where all I have to do is add my lights and go. Thanks -- Hill Davis
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Re: lighting que fades
Are you/ have you tried using the scene fade toolbar? if you simply right click on the blue title bar on the fixture page (the bar that has the text of the fixture for example on the bar it will say Design Spot 250 or w.e. you may have) right click on that bar and you will see a few options come up. select "Scene Fade Toolbar" and it will appear at the top on the fixture page. all you do is click on your scene. check the check box to the left side of the new area. and add a time to only the...
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Re: Scene Fade Suddenly Not Working
1. if the check box is grayed out its because you need to see individual channels. you will see a + symbol near fixture name. click it and it expands all channels. The important channels for moving heads that need the FADE option checked are pan tilt dimming focus Iris and zoom. LED's need Red Green and Blue and dimming checked. 2. when I say more than one page, I refer to having multiple DESIGN SPOT 250 pages or DLED 36 pages with the same DMX address. Do you have any pages with overlapping...
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Re: Master Switch Priority (CompuLive)
See, that's just it...I WANT the MASTER page to take full control. In this case it seems the fixture page takes control of only the color and gobo. I mainly use the MASTER page to control LED Par cans. I only have one Fixture page and I use it to control the Design Spots. In this case, I'm using a switch in the MASTER page to control LED Par cans as well as one Design Spot, so it seems like the MASTER page switch would take priority over a Fixture page scene. Jingles, I can't make the...
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Re: Help with getting current software???
I've had the system for about 7 months but have really only used it for a major show last April and am gearing up for the use throughout the school year. I am the fine arts director and technicians and ...... for a 9-12 high school. For our show last year the flickering happened very randomly but I thought it might because I was loading my dimmers pretty heavy. I just started to fire everything back up again this past weekend and the lights are just on a on or off setting for church use.
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Re: Understanding the DMX Operator
I'm jumping into this a bit later than I normally would, but I don't normally read this forum, despite the fact that I should. I have the DMX Operator. So, I know how it work quite well. I can't say I know it 100% inside and out, but I can get around it quite easily. I need to refer to the manual for programming it because I can't recall those steps. Other than that, the DMX Operator is my buddy. It is my reliable fall back for MyDMX. Issue 1: The scanner buttons. Each scanner buttonis...
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Re: Newbie Question!
I can help with a few recommendations. What is the room size? and the height at which these fixtures will be mounted? For a beginner moving head i would go with 2 design spots 250. Led par cans Check out some of our LED par cans and if the price is too high check out American DJ's P64LED Pro. Oh and what is your budget? Sincerely,
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Re: DP-415?
My experience with these eurolight boards isn't Good the boards have Good features for the price. but in my experience I have never Got on working on a 3pin dmx. I see people use these on 5pin dmx systems, and I have also heard of people using them on three pin networks (not with an adapter though), they take apart the board and un soilder the 5pin XLR jack and put in and solider on a 3pin XLR jack. Basically, Behringer is a company based out of Germany, hardly any of there products are...
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Re: ETC Ion and Design spot 250 question.
The Good amount of bass was the problem I had. The room I have them in, we have no bass speaker and only ones for High and Mid range really. So I tweaked the bass level and turned the sound almost to the max of my speakers and they moved. I also turned the sensitivity of the Design spots up too. Thank you for the help.
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Re: Warranty Repair
Ric, hows it going? sorry to hear about your Design spot. follow these instructions from the homepage of this forum "Anyone requiring service please contact Elation Service at +1 323-582-3322 Between 8:00am to 5:00pm Pacific Standard time." Sincerely,
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Re: vista 64 bit
Any updates to this delima? I have new laptops and a 32 bit OS isn't an option. I really need to have this work, especially before I buy 3 more units for my new lighting design services. Thanks in advance.
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Re: James, help with best bang for the buck...
hmmm at around 2,000 huh? Do you want LED lights? moving heads? Scanners? DJ effects? Let me know. for 2 grand i would say try to get maybe a pair of design spots for starters. If you go with ADJ your choices open up a bit more at that budget. But with elation we are a bit more expensive but all of our products are totally worth the money and you wont find a similar fixture at that price with the same features. Sincerely,
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Re: Multiple Shutters
I would like to clarify for Serra, The design WASH's I believe the 300 and up have beam shaper. I dont believe the design wash 250 has a beam shaper. Also the design spot just has a dual flag dimming system. Serra you said DS250 which to me says Design Spot 250 not wash. Sorry if im being a pain. haha. Sincerely,
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Re: strobe
Unfortunately, yes it will. The simple way around this is to use a very small fixture, like a Par 16. Then simply use Black Wrap to cover the light so it emits no light at all. Black Wrap is black, heavy duty aluminum foil that is made for blocking light and also to withstand very high temperatures. Apollo Design and a few other companies make the stuff. I keep a roll of it in my work box, very useful.
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Re: Design Spot 300 Pro Cooling
Hi TVLD, Inc and welcome to the forums. The Design moving head series's fans power down after the fixture cools to a certain point with the lamp off. It is nice because it allows you to leave the fixtures on all the time without the fans running. Just simply turn off the lamps and walk away. It also let's you know when the lamp is cool enough to power down. You should be able to change this setting in the menu if you want the fans to run all the time.
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Re: DS 250 Internal Programming
I can answer the first part of your question. MyDMX is indeed a DMX controller. MyDMX is software based as oppose to hardware based controller. Now as for how to copy them into a Design Spot 250, I am not sure. Some one from service will have to answer that. For creating scenes however, it will depend on how they are addressed. If both fixtures are using the same address, you simply have one fixture mirror the other and store the same look in them. If they are addressed differently, then you...
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Re: Hazer/Fazer....confusion :confused:
I hear ya on the overkill front. The reason I even have the Aquafogger is because I do stuff in which I need low-lying fog for long periods of time and it needs to stay that way for some theatre stuff I do. It is the extreme end of the spectrum with regards to low-lying foggers. They do make a 220v version, but 120v is easier for me since sometimes I don't have the ability to tap and get 208. Thus ,I have the 120v version. Only reason I bring up dry ice is because some people get fog...
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Re: Platinum Spot
Very nice. I also heard that there was a "design spot led" with a 90 watt source at LDI! I hope to see info on this soon. Im not sold on leds for moving lights, but this sounds promising. Still disappointed thats its a not a plasma lamp, but the double the efficiency sounds good.
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Re: Platinum Spot
Ahhh, makes more sense now, just a shorter arc source lamp. Make the point source smaller, make the light brighter. It would also be interesting to say that this new lamp is more efficient then plasma since they have Luminaire Efficacy Rating great then 90%, while arc lamps are normally around 55%. Since I have no specs on the new lamp, I can't calculate an LER for it, but I am sure it is higher then 55%. Ballasts still kill the efficiency of arc lamps and always will. Plasma likewise keeps...
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Re: DS 575E Will not Strike
hi DJ sabres. please give us a call at 323-213-4593. im assuming that you have a design spot 575e.it may be an ignitor issue. either way please give us a call when you are infront of the unit so we can talk you through some items. Best Regards, Gines Gines elation service manager
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Re: Platinum Spot
Yep the Platinum Spot has a differnt design head and base and has remote focus and improved optics and more features over the Vizi Spot...
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Re: Crashing...Crashing...Crashing
Hello Again, Sorry for the long delay in getting back to you, the little down time I have had the last few weeks has gone to sleep and home...It has been non-stop on my end which has been great. I have some answers to questions you asked, a few new questions, and we will see from there. I have been able to use the compu some more with less problems, but more on that. I will email you crash reports after this post. For my fixture pages, everything is grouped in like lights, I have my design...
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Re: DS 250 case
EP, I have 2 Elation Design Spot 250's that I am wanteing to get cases for. I was wondering if the ADJ accu-case would fit the DS250? I currently have 2 DS 250s and they are stored in Roadie cases but I am not impressed with the design or the quality of those cases. I have 2 ADJ accu-scan 250s that I store in the ADJ SX2r accu-case and I am impressed with that case. So I was hoping to be able to use a couple of accu-cases to store my Elation DS 250s. Thanks, Ric
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Re: Platinum Spot
Yes - CTO, CTB and UV on the color wheel - full specs will be up soon! Design Spot 300's have CMY color mixing and an extra 3D prism as the most important feature differences.
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Re: Platinum Spot
OK understood - but more to that point we do now offer the Design Spot 575 B "Basic" as well...more in that price range you are looking for. We should get info on that unit up on our web this week but it is in our new catalog and in stock now. our model DSB575 - MSRP $2,999.95 Ask your sales rep. 7 + White Color Wheel, 1 Rotating 6+open Gobo Wheel,1 Static Gobo Wheel 7+open, Iris, Focus, Variable Frost, Rotating 3 facet Prism, Difference being, No CMY, No Zoom, No Animation, 1 rotating wheel...
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Re: DS 250 case
ADJ and Elation have some ties to each other, so the chances are either company would probably know what a case would fit within their umbrella. Personally, the phone is my friend. I often work where I need fast and definitive answers. No doubt you are familiar with this sort of environment since you're posting here in the first place. People want something at the last minute but they've known about this for a while sort of things. Or, in my recent case, something just got sprung on me and...
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Re: DS 250 Focus Lens going brown
I have the same problem in two of my design spot 250 I've notice is only 3 screws to remove the lense bracket I wonder if Elation can sell the replacement lense
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Re: Design Spot 250 Pro: Changing Lenses and Gobos
Okay, here are the photos. This is of a Design Spot 575E, so no static wheel. The rotating wheel should be the same however (I am pretty sure that the whole assembly is shared between the DS 250, 300, 575, and 1200, only the 1400s have a different one). First up is a semi-wide of the fixture with the cover off. You can see the one gobo wheel (Other is accessible from the other side) and the color wheel behind it. Next is how you have to pop the wheel out, notice the little tiny screws that...
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Re: LED fixture questions
no I'm saying no company makes one like I described and was wondering why. And yes I've seen the tri-led stuff, the design 60 is really neat but I can never find it for rent anywhere But still looking for something along the lines of basically a washer like the mega bar but with RGB leds rather then the individual R, G, B
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Re: Opti Tri 30 vs ...
It should be quite a bit brighter. This is, from left to right, on 'white': ETC S4 ParNel, 750w Elation Opti Par Tri Elation Design LED 36 without frost Elation Opti 30 RGB AMDJ P64 LED Pro You can see the P64 is beating the Opti 30 intensity wise, but the Opti 30 has 25 degree angle vs the 10 degree of the P64. The 10 degree on the Opti 30 Tri would allow it to blow it out of the water since the Opti 30 with less output is holding its own fairly well here. R21 in the ParNel and me trying to...
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Re: different info given on E-spot led ?
Hi, The Specs in the user manual are correct, with one exception the light source is a CBT-90W not a CTB-90W. Many times the specs on the web are based on our pre-production models which is the reason for the discrepancies. Also, look at the Design Wash 60 LED as a good wash companion to the E Spot.
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Re: Design Spot 250 09Er Error Code: Prism-Wheel Error
Any ideas? I've got 2 Design Spots completely open on a work bench (for 3 days now). I would like to get to the bottom of this. Thanks, Brian