Hardison 2010 Show

[inzeos]

Looks like my best friend and I may pull off a basic animated show late in the season.

We did not think we would be up and running for 2010. However, many great DLA members offered parts, pcbs, casess and general advice.

Tonight we tested our first dongle (v2), lynx express (v5) and vixen sequencing laptop.

Tomorrow we are going to setup a 2D megatree on the side of our house.

This will be our first animated show displayed on my sons first lighting season!

Here is a video of one of our short test sequences we put together.  The lights in Vixen are programmed to dim more; however, I currently do not have a curve definition that works for these lights.

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[rrowan]

Excellant !!!

Love to see pictures and videos

Happy 1st Christmas to your son also

Cheers

Rick R.

[trekster]

Congratulations!  Better late then never so they say.


Ron

[inzeos]

The only problem we have run into seems to be with the express board interferring with CFL dimmable lights on a CFL dimmer switch.  The light switch eventually faults and needs to be reset and the CFL bulbs behave oddly when the sequence for the express is running.  Anyone ever notice this?

[RJ]

Normal Triac based phase angle dimmers like the express put a lot of noise on the power lines. Many people can hear where their shows are running in their power panels from the high freqency load switching of the dimmers. It is worst at 50% brightness because you switch the triac on at it's peak voltage.

RJ

[deanathpc]

Normal Triac based phase angle dimmers like the express put a lot of noise on the power lines. Many people can hear where their shows are running in their power panels from the high freqency load switching of the dimmers. It is worst at 50% brightness because you switch the triac on at it's peak voltage.

RJ

RJ,
     In the HAM world we can put some things in place to help reduce RF noise on AC lines.  Would this work for this setup too maybe?

Dean

[rm357]

There are all kinds of things that we can do, but they all add expense. The commercial dimmers we have at my church have torodial inductors to absorb the high frequency noise, but those probably cost more per channel than the express kit...

If this is really an issue, you might try using some of the better power conditioner style power strips... they should be able to smoth out some of the noise...

RM

[inzeos]

I updated my original post to include a short video.

Here is the link as well;

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