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Re: led moving head idea
Hey Jingles.. What's new?? Color mixing is interesting. When you have RGB. This is considered addative color mixing. What this means is, if you have Red at 100%, Green at 100% and Blue at 100% you get white. CMY is subtractive color mixing.. If you do all the colors at 100% this will give you black, or the colors go away. CMY is only useful if you have a white source to back it up, like in a moving head, the source is comming from the lamp.
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Re: Compu Live Questions
hey and welcome to the board. well i can tell this is gonna be a long post for me lol! now i acn answer most of these with ways that have worked for me but we should also see what elation says about the best way ot do some of these things. 1) you can assign a fader to adjust the speed of each individual button u have created by right clicking on the fixture page or if u have it in a master scene the master page scrool down till u see live toolbar button. u will see a size and dimmer andspeed...
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Re: Easy Stand Alone SW
i believe im not 100% sure but u can click on a scene that is not playing and hit ctrl and alt at the same time as u click it. it will allow u to edit that scene and i don't think it will be viewable. look and see what color the street light is on when u click on it. this make sense? peace! jingles.
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Re: RSER message
Hey guys..I started working on this fixture today.I took apart everything and started looking to see why the fixture wouldnt reset properly and stay on RST.Remember i said i ordered the main circuit board..well turns out it was a wire that was disconnected! I pluged that wire back in place and turned it on and...there it was it reseted correctly and works fine now!I havnt received the circuitboard from Elation. Do you think i can return it?? That $100!
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Re: Compatibility Issue solved.
Hey John, I can have all 4 dimmer packs hooked up with everything running fine. I run up the dimmers to 100% on one channel for reference and everything will be fine. As soon as I hook up any of the 4 dynasty scan's into the chain the par's that I have at 100% will go out and then all the par's just flicker at random and any scan's that are hooked up will also flicker.
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Re: Compatibility Issue solved.
Hmmm.. It sounds like you are having data issues. This means that either one of the cables is not working well. or 1 light or dimmer has a bad output. Here is what I recomend. Try connecting one thing at a time. 1 dimmer, then 1 light, 1 dimmer then 1 light I think you will find the problem this way. As you connect each dimmer, make sure you bring intensities to 100% before you connect the next light. When you find the problem, change the cable. And if all the cables are good, then change...
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Re: Magic 260 Issues
the color on my nose?? lol funny. is a nice warm red like Rudolph! lol. i know there was no insult intended. as im sure jon was just asking to be 100% sure about the correction issue. i agree it would be a cool feature to turn off and on as needed. peace! and happy holidays to all! sincerely,
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Re: Design 36 LED
I guess that is what i was waiting for it is a shame that 7 of the 8 programs are bad and that is that. I will be ordering the next twenty units sometime this week only i will be going with the Colorado1 from chauvet. I have ten of this units and the feature sets and service are way better and the price is $100+ better then the design 36. I am also starting to have problems with my design 60 units and will be shoping for another brand to complete my need for 15 more units.
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Re: OPTI 30 RGB
Problem is jingles that your middle men don't do their job real well. I can tell you I ordered a PS575, within one month, the lens in the front had fallen out, and the dimmer didn't work. It also had a few other issues. They sent my advanced replacement out late, despite saying it would be there a certain day, and because it that, it hurt a show I was doing and lost money on it. About 6 months later, I ordered 2 PS575IEs. One light, 2nd show I used it for, about 3 weeks old and under 50...
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Re: EasyShow
well, i have about 100 scenes of a crazy variety of lengths throughout each song... i was wondering if i could select all the scenes and their locations for each song, cut and paste them wherever i want, for instance if i insert another song in the middle of the setlist, i have to move the last few songs down a couple minutes to line them back up.
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Re: black lights
Not 100% true jingles, you can dim fluorescents with a Sine Wave dimmer, which are very expensive. All light sources emit UV. Nothing has the same effect as fluorescents because fluorescents output a lot of UV do to design. So much so that they are used to sterilize things. All fluorescents have a coating to block UV so it doesn't hurt anyone. Black light fluorescents don't have as strong a coating, allowing save levels of UV out. They are also colored purple because UV has no color...
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Re: black lights
I apologize in advance for the very long and off topic post I am about to post. SCR dimmers work by chopping the sine wave of AC. This is how they 'dim'. AC is a wave. DC is a line. Now when power is created, is is created by a magnet spinning in a coil at 60 times per second, thus 60hz AC. This is how and why the wave is created. The little sine wave above, the start as 0 degrees, the first peak point as 90 degrees, the next mid point as 180 degrees, and the bottom peak point is 270 degrees...
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Re: black lights
Continuing on now: The buzzing noise is known as lamp sing, it's caused by the power being turned on and off really fast. The way this is fixed is more expensive dimmers have what is known as a choke after the SCR so the power change is as dramatic as on/off. The better the quality of dimmer, the less lamp sing you will get. Now why non-dim isn't really non-dim. Despite you setting a dimmer to non dim, either via the pack or the console, the power still passes through the SCR and choke. So,...
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Re: COEmars and elation fixtures on the same control???
ybravo, When you say your focus spots move slow, are you refering to the preset movements of the compu? Say for example the circle moves slow? If so, have you adjusted the speed fader to see if it speeds up? With the Coemars, you need to see if both the dimmer channel and the shutter channel are 100%. Click on the Center button for that fixture and then from the drop down menu choose button then edit. look for the dimmer and shutter channels and see if they are 100% if not make them 100%...
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Re: SS8 Question
the difference is mic cable has a different impedience rating than DMX of at least I think that is the word. For dmx it has to be 120 or it could cause data loss at long distances. Like over 100 feet but me and a lot others here strongly reccommend DMX cables. Sincerely,
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Re: Scene Setter 48 issues, less than 1 year
Oh No, We have had this controller for over 10 years (i think. . .at least 7). The problem is that when you push some of the faders up to 100% it skips down to 30% and flashes around. It is kinda hard to explain. You push it up and it hits 100 then jumps back and forth between 30 and 100. Does that make sense? We just need another one. About the 192 not being satisfactory, you would have fast control over lots of faders. All you would do is it one button, and then change the faders. There...
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Re: Programming a Button Fader
Right click on the page for your hazer, then go to settings. On the top left click on channels, and you will see the channels for that unit. On the channel you want the fader to control, select "enable DIMMER function". Once this is done, go to the edit page for that switch and set the level 100%, then your fader will control it.
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Re: What are some other uses for moving heads at weddings?
$300? I get mine new for around $100 and used for less then $50.
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Re: lighting intensity and throw distance
Well, that all depends on beam size and throw distance. How bright something is over distance is can be determined by lumen's. How bright something is over a given area is foot candles or lux. Foot candles are lumen's/ft^2, so it is a more actuate method of how bright something will be over just lumen output which is based off of a single point instead of actually beam size. FC is considered old, but one FC equals 10.764 lux, though some just use a factor of 10 to simplify things. Warning,...
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Re: Fading to black
i'm not 100% sure on the Magic 260. But on the Show Designers' you have an option to have special settings on each channel. So for example on a Gobo Channel you will want a snap before setting and on a dimmer you will want a cross fade setting. I think your Magic 260 has a snap before setting instead of a cross fade setting. Check out your modify fixture settings if there is any. I will check this out Mon morning. Let me know how it goes. Best regards,
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Re: design 108
Yes it does. I am still wondering if they are going to make different plates for them like Coemar has for their ParLite LED series, which is the direct comparison to Elation's DLED36. I have actually found that musicians love the LEDs over conventionals do to the lack of heat. They also love that I can get 'high' powered lights into a space with little to no power and not have to worry about tripping breakers. The nice part when someone thinks something is too bright, dim it. And then when...
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Re: Need .SSL file American DJ Revo III
It's the light itself. No LED's, no light, nothing. I set the address to 100 (same thing I set the light address to). While I have the dmx cable plugged into the light, it indicates a dmx signal is present and displays the '100' address in the display. But that's it. Unplugging the dmx cable the unit will go into autoshow. Any ideas?
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Re: Operator 192 questions newbie...
I believe your issue is that each fixture on the 'Fixture' button represents 16 channels. Since you address the lights in numerical order, the 'Fixture' buttons won't line up. So fixture 1 is really channels 1-16. Fixture 2 is channels 17-32, then 3 is channels 33-48 and so on. Try setting your first group of lights to channel 1 making them Fixture 1. Then your second group of lights as channel 17 making them Fixture 2. Lastly, your last group of lights to channel 33 making them Fixture 3.
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Re: Haze question.
If the space is small, the X310 will have no issues hazing the room out at about 10%. Running at 10% constantly, I have ran the machine for as long as 12 hours and used maybe a quarter of a tank, so he won't run out of fluid fast. Even running at 100%, it still takes a couple of hours to burn through the tank. The X310 is very efficient in its use of fluid.
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Re: Design wash 250's
i can set the dimmer to 100% but thats all. it wont even do anything at 0%
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Re: LED diffusion
Drew, We have something called a DF64. Its a really nice difuser. I believe the 64 refers to a Lee or Rosco difuser number, but i'm not 100% sure.
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Re: Help with getting current software???
i'm thinking as misbeam said, the data strength of the COMPU box is not the strongest. This is why we recommend an OPTO DMX SPLITTER be used in conjucntion with the Compu Box. There is usually no problems when you have short distance runs, but if your running FOH with a starting distance of say 100+ feet then the USB interface seems as if it doesn't transmit a strong enough signal. This is mainly due to the fact that it is powered by a USB port. The DMX Splitter will amplify the signal and...
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Re: Help with getting current software???
jon i would like to see what is all going on on your desktop when you try this. So i would like for you to do two things for me. go to www.crossloop.com and start up a free membership and get your account going. no worries though it is and always will be 100% free. and then cal me at 1-715-302-5671 that is my direct cell and i will be able to see using crossloop what all is going on on your desktop and how you are trying to install or download the software. ok? Btw i am in central time in...
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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: DP-415?
Have you checked the fuses in the packs? They might be blown. The next question is have you tired the console with other packs/fixtures to see if it is outputting? Also make sure that your master fader, preset fader, memory fader, and cross fade fader are at 100% as well, otherwise the lights won't turn on depending on what mode you are in. Lastly, make sure the blackout key isn't on.
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Re: Generic profile for a 5 chnl LED PAR can (MBT)
James, Thank you for the help. The manual has no description of the DMX traits. If I could have an OM button with sliders 0%-100% for each of the 5 channels that would be quite helpful. I am still only on page 39 of the manual, so I don't yet know if this is possible, but a few specific color buttons (like that on the X-Scan page I added) would be over and above. I would understand if this not possible, because I suppose I would RGB the colors myself with the sliders and save the scene "as I...
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Re: Chauvet Scorpion LG-60 and Colorstrip
The mega pixels work 100% perfectly with the software. This was part of our testing with the color strips. Sincerely,
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Re: Hazer/Fazer....confusion :confused:
OK. I get what you're saying. Oil produces better results but leaves residue. For me, that's bad. Not acceptable, due to the residue. water-based doesn't work as well but you don't have the residue. I can handle that. It sounds like the Fazer X-310II might be what I'm looking for. Use an Antari water-based fog fluid. OK, again, I'm good. Now, I do have questions still. I want DMX control, so it sounds like I need to buy the X-20II DMX module, which is definately acceptable. Just to be clear,...
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Re: Hazer/Fazer....confusion :confused:
Your on the right track. I believe X-310II is what your looking for. The other great features this machine has is it already comes with on board timer and DMX digital module!! this is awesome. It also features a blue LED fluid indicator, as soon as fluid levels are low it starts to blink telling you to add more fluid. And to be clear the X-310II is mainly a fog machine producing a haze-type effect. A haze machine runs continous, the minute you turn on a hazer the compressor starts and you...
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Re: Hazer/Fazer....confusion :confused:
Hey Chris, I have 3 of the X-310's and love them. In the photos seen here , it is actually one X-310 hazing a stage that is 65' wide, 30' deep, and the fly goes up all the way to about 70' (visible is about 25') in a 2500 seat theatre, so quite huge. I wish I had two when I did this, but only had one at the time. Do to how the air in the theatre moved/s, I had to sit the X-310 center stage. You can see it in the shots, particularly the last one sitting upstage center. I taped the LEDs like...
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Re: Hazer/Fazer....confusion :confused:
Snow machines are basically a glorified soap blower. As such, they go until they run out of fluid. No warm cycle either. They are very loud though, so keep that in mind. They tend to sound like a leaf blower. The S-200 is a 'silent' snow machine. It has the same size blower as the S-100 II , but costs more do to the silent part. As for power draw on the hazers, its next to nothing since they are just a small air compressor, a fan, and a pump. They draw a few amps at most.
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Re: Hazer/Fazer....confusion :confused:
Well, I'm in the decision making process but not the buying process. After some discussion you may have read on the ADJ forum, the product support manager said I should choose the Ice-101 for ground fog due to how he described behaviors of the Mr. Kool. But that's the sort of stuff I neede to hear. If I choose to save money on that route, I'm going to shoot myself in the foot. So, the Ice-101 looks like the choice to go with. I agree that DMX on a hazer can be seen as an over-kill element. I...
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Re: Newbie Help... please!
DMX terminators are only recommended on DMX runs around 75-100 feet and up. Also you only have one light so I highly doubt a terminator would help. Sincerely,
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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: Platinum Spot
Eric is correct in that footcandle measurements use a single point since the light meters used to measure them are so small. For example, I have a flash light that puts out 17 FC but a few inches away from the center it drops to probably around 4 FC. Basically, you are looking for Lux and not Lumen or footcandles. Lux takes into account area where as lumens and foocandles don't. For example, I can have 1,000 lumens focused onto one square meter and I get 1,000 lux. However, if I take that...
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Re: Bored, so I figured I would post some photos
I'm only 38. Been getting by butt kicked in this industry since I was 10. Not giving it up any time soon. But I'm a sound guy and 100% self-funded. No working for someone else and nobody looking out for me. It's a hard world out there. I'm technical, not marketting. I am great at what I do, just have a hard time telling people about it. With no corporate dollors or endorsements or help from the outside, it's tough to get ahead right now, especially in this marketplace. Serra Ava: What are...
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Re: 3d set up help
Well it won't be 100% accurate but will be close. Just program your positions when the lights are plugged in. Sincerely,
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Re: DMX Operator Slider problem
Wow! Thanks for all the info, Chris! This controller has led a pretty boring life. It lives in my well-sealed home studio. It's only use is to occasionally drive a set of Octopod's that i have mounted for "ambience". There's almost no dust or dirt in the studio, since it's so well sealed. It's a standalone controller, so it's not mounted in a rack. I'm not positive on the age, but I think it's about 4 years old (the mfg date says it was made in 2004). I'll go ahead and give the ADJ support...
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Re: new cyberpak, not at full power
i went to elation and had them check it out and they said it was bad so they gave me a replacement. when i got back to the theater i had the same problem as before and finally adjusted the channel preset which on the led display looks almost identical to the dmx address and is right after it in the menu sequence. i had set the channel preset thinking it was the dmx address and there was my problem. i set it to 100 and problem solved. thanks for all your help even though it turned out to be...
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Re: new cyberpak, not at full power
I did quick research on the fixture models to get my numbers. It's not surprising that Serra Ava informs me that these fixtures come in a variety of wattages. It doesn't surprise me, these are some decent fixtures. I still think you need to ugprade to another dimmer pack. While you're getting 100% draw out of the dimmer pack, you're not delivering 100% to some of your fixtures(probably). If you're drawing more tahn 600-watts/channel, this is definately not the right fixture for you. Not...
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Re: DMX Operator Slider problem
Hey Chris, I called Elation (ADJ) support like you suggested. Looked like it was going to end up costing about $80-$100 to have them fix it. The tech I spoke with indicated that the problem I was having was indicative of a loose connection. So, I decided to just debug it myself...at the board level. After about an hour of looking at the board, I discovered that the mux (which all 8 of the sliders feed into) had gone south. So, I ordered a replacement mux chip from DigiKey for 69 cents and...
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Re: Want to be notified of new compu software and interfaces??
Well do you want a buggy software early? Or a stable version ready to go in a month or two? I don't know what to say it is ALL way overdue. We are working on the new software day and night i assure and it is well worth the wait. We are selling the new interfaces first because they are ready to go and work good on a 64 bit and 32 bit OS. I do greatly apologize for the inconvenience but we want to make sure when it is released it is 100% ready to go. I thought we would release the software...
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Re: Problem getting XMove LED to cycle lights, gobo, etc
Sergio, After many headaches, my problem ended up being a fader issue. With the lights I am using, fader 5 controls the size of the shutter (open closed strobe, etc.) and fader 6 controls the dimmer 0-100. For the lights to work, fader 5 must be at 255 and fader 6 must then be up to 255. It basically took trial and error to get it goin but we are up and running now!!! Thanks for the help!!!
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Re: CueCable drivers for Vista and Windows 7
I just purchased the Emulation software and I have Windows 7 64 bit driver. I spoke with a tech from elation and said i have to download the 64 bit driver from web site. I have, but im noticing on the installation that its showing files I dont have. The disc I have is a 1.00 version. My file has emulation 100 and instrutions show emulation 1003. Is there something I am missing or is there another version I should of recieved?