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Title: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: Ron on June 04, 2009,

I had a request to share my sequence is Vixen from my show from last year.  I'm happy to do this, hopefully this will work and it will be understandable by everyone.  I'm including my profile with the sequences.  There should be several channel sequences that you can look at too, I believe these are saved in the profile.  I used different channel sequence setups to help me with the beats in different songs.

Ron

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: jnealand on June 04, 2009,

Since I am new here, do you have any videos of these sequences in use online somewhere?

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: Ron on June 04, 2009,

Sure, you can see them at:

www.youtube.com/christmasingreatwood

Ron

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: BryanV on June 05, 2009,

Ron;  I'm having some problems downloading your sequences.  When I run a sequence there are no channel id's.  I can import your profile but there then is no programmed sequences but shows channel names.  Any ideas.
Thanks again,
Bryan

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: Ron on June 05, 2009,

Not sure Bryan.  Honestly I have never tried to do this before so maybe I am missing something.

It might be that I had the DMX Plugin activated in the profile I attached initially.  I'll attach one to this post where that is disabled.

I just tried it on one of my PCs at home with the updated profile and it appears to have worked.  Here's what I did.

I downloaded the sequence files into the Sequences directory.
I downloaded the new 2008.pro file into the Profiles directory.
I started vixen and opened a sequence.

I can see all the renamed channels and such, so I think it is working.

Let me know if this new profile helps.

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: rrowan on June 05, 2009,

If that doesn't work then open a sequence and then click on profile manager and select Ron's profile to use.

Rick R.

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: BryanV on June 05, 2009,

Ok  Got all the music part to work but I don't have the house layout pop up when it starts to play.  Now what did I screw up?   ???DOH!!  Must be the heat.  We are hitting 100 degrees for the 6th straight day.

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: BryanV on June 05, 2009,

also no sequences for arches show up?

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: Ron on June 05, 2009,

Hey Bryan, you didn't screw anything up, I never did a house layout.  I got started so late I never bothered putting one together.

The arches, however, should be in there.  They are colored yellow and somewhere down in the channel count, I can't remember how far down.

Ron

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: Cobergas on June 08, 2009,

on a separate note..

Where did you get the LED strobes?

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: REM on June 08, 2009,

Not sure about Ron but I got mine here: http://www.creativedisplays.com/siteresources/modules/webstore/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=713

They're $47.50 for 10.

- REM (The other Ron)

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: Ron on June 08, 2009,

I got mine at the same place REM did.  Great service.

Ron

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: REM on June 08, 2009,

You know, the only thing I don't like about these strobes is the way that they all start at the exact same time and take several seconds (and flashes) before they begin to randomize.  Is there a documented mod like swapping a resistor to change that?  I think I've seen it somewhere for the xenon curtain strobes but I don't know about these LEDs.

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: Ron on June 08, 2009,

I was thinking the same thing, about them seeming to all start together.  I have not seen a mod anywhere that I am aware of, but I don't think many people have had these very long.

Ron

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: REM on June 08, 2009,

I may crack into one of mine and see. I'll let you know if I do.

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: solidmodeler on June 08, 2009,

I have my 15 strobes on 3 separate controller channels. I just delay their start-up in the sequence so they don't start at one time.

Michael

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: REM on June 08, 2009,

Good idea Michael.  I tried to pry one open this afternoon and cracked the clear cover.  It's almost impossible to get in those things.

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: BryanV on June 08, 2009,

got mine from wow lights.  With shipping they turned out  to be the cheapest.  They also seem to stobe at the same frequency until they have run for awhile. Did read that you can replace the resistor but awfully hard to get into them..

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: REM on June 08, 2009,

I recall seeing a how-to on the xenon curtain strobes where you replace a resistor to something like a 470 ohm to get it to flash faster.

Sorry we hijacked your thread Ron.

-- The other Ron

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: BryanV on June 09, 2009,

Ron  Back to our original thread.  I still can't get the arches to show up.  Any ideas?

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: Ron on June 09, 2009,

The first set of arches is on channels 181 to 195.  The second set is on 293 to 306.

Ron

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences getting it back on track ..sharing seq
Post by: blearning on July 11, 2009,

Unhijacking ...
returning to our regular program schedule

here is a few from last year from myself, freshly converted from LOR, thought I would share them as well ...

enjoy

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: joshuashu on September 20, 2009,

hi,

do you have the original LOR files for these? i would love to have them as i am using LSP and cant get them to open in it.
 

Title: Re: Ron's 2008 Sequences
Post by: BryanV on September 20, 2009,

Bill  Where can I find your video display?
Thanks,
Bryan