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Monday, April 19th 2010

April stage

Our stage in April, Isn't this a beautiful setting?

Camp work crew

Nell greets Kevin.

Camp work crew

Okay, here is the crew, working their little tails off. foreground left, Desi, above him on the truch, from left to right, are Ollie, Brittany, Vidal and Adam.

Camp work crew

I wasn't any help, which I'm struggling with, on the bright side, sciatica did make these photographs possible.

Camp work crew

We set up a screen on saw horses and they did a marvelous job of cleaning the sand. The sand by trhe way is for building up thick layers of adobe on the Tusas Horno. Britt and I watched a horno building Youtube video where the guy was blaming large cracks in the clay on rain, and saying by way of appology that cracks were inevitable, hog-warsh; our horno didn't crack at all. It's all about the sand baby!

Camp work crew

Perhaps this year we will make more instructional style video of our Horno. Funny, well stupid more than funny, in the video they mixed the adobe between layers of plastic tarp, and wore disposable latex gloves like somehow touching the mud was a bad thing. No, getting dirty is the good part, stupid! I think they missed the point, whadja spect, bunch of dumb gringo's making a video on Horno making.

Camp work crew

It's all good, the Tusas crew is still at the top of the search order for Horno making at youtube

Well that is about all I have, except for a couple of posts from fieldlines and a note for MacKenzie,
Sincerely,
Brian Rodgers

Brian's Morning Newsletter
Monday, April 19th 2010

Remote stage lighting LASER and LED

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Re: Remote stage lighting laser & LED

« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2010, 08:37:47 AM »

You are talking about my profession, I do Sound & Lighting everyday and I live on DMX512. Some of the controllers we use have 4 outputs (universes) making the controller capable of 2048 channels of control. some of the robotic lighting fixtures that I operate require 30 channels of DMX to get all the functions they are capable of.

Remember that the specific lighting effects that you are talking about buying will require some Smoke or Haze in the air to get the look you see in the videos that you are watching. One band I knew would pass out cigarettes to the audience before the show to get the smoke in the air.

Here's some of my work . . .


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Re: Remote stage lighting laser & LED

« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2010, 10:20:04 AM »

Thanks man
Yeah smoke is built into out camp party

I hope this isn't too large, if it any consolation it is the small image, of the two, with the other one being an animated gif here
http://outfitnm.com/wp-content/uploads/tusas-2010-flashy.gif
Beware it is 7.5 meg
So anyway, Wooferhound, what do ya think, about using the LM713T, for these two lights?

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Re: Remote stage lighting laser & LED

« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2010, 10:22:16 AM »

2048 devices, dude, that's awesome, so you must be one of those techies I was watchin when everyone else was wacthin the show

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Re: Remote stage lighting laser & LED

« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2010, 11:48:58 AM »

I guess you know that fixture is an automatic light that is not controlled by DMX.
Looked at this manual http://www.chauvetlighting.com/products/manuals/Abyss_LED_UG.pdf
It shows a drawing of the light with the Universal Power Socket on it, so it is Not powered by a wallwart supply. To power it off of 12 volts running the LED with a LM317T could be done but you would need to open it up and wire the LED separately to the regulator which is rated at 1.5 amps and the LED in the Chauveit light is 1.36 amp so the LM317T would get really hot. Plus the light would come on but the rest of the electronics that control the motion and color changes would not function.

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Re: Remote stage lighting laser & LED

« Reply #5 on: Today at 04:54:10 AM »

Yes I realise the Chauvet Abyss LED isn't DMX, my goal is for as much interesting (automatic) lighting while staying within a extremely frugal Watt/Hour and finance budget.
Thanks for the PDF, I was fairly certain that this was 12volts DC, now I see that it isn't, that's okay I guess, I hooked up with my neighbor whom has a 12 volt pure-sinewave inverter which he'll sell for a couple hundred bucks. We have eight deep cycle batteries (Everstart DC27-6 115 Ah) for storage, I am now looking for a portable and quiet generator, to keep this bank charged (950 AH) The bluegrass band we hired surely doesn't use a terribly grand amount of power, or at least this is my hope, the rest o the weekend we run automotive electronics; 300Watt amplifier, on a car stereo CD/USB MP3 player, the MP3 – USB player has been a godsend as far as power consumption.

This is like our 38 annual camp party. We have a killer stereo which is a good thing because it has to be loud to overcome the noise from the generator. One year we went PV powered, that was cool, but we no longer have those old Solex panels, so here is my boggle at present: We've never charged batteries off the 12 volt output from a portable generator. I do not know, and to date haven't been able to discern from the manufacturer's literature what kind of output the 12 volt plug has, surely the rated watts of the generator isn't there, that would be cool, but I'm not counting on it. Another thing, is what is the 12 volt outlet jack on a generator called, and is it universal, rated by amp capacity like AC receptacles?

I've been reading generator reviews and it sounds like the Generac brand is a pretty good bang for the buck.

http://www.generac.com/Portables/XP/Products/XP4000/

Now as I preview the spec sheets from Generec 12 volt output isn't included on any models I looked at. I guess I have to go back to the idea of charging the batteries with a 50 amp battery charger, which has a 15 amp plug so it ought to run off the cheapest 4000watt genset I can find.
Funny just as I see a possible need for the 12 volt genset output it all but disappears.
What type of portable generator (not Listers) of members here use to top off battery backs on no-wind days?

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Copper wire, lots of copper wire.

Mackenzie register at fieldlines http://fieldlines.com/board/index.php

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Copper wire #12AWG, lots of wire
« on: April 17, 2010, 08:01:35 AM »
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I know there will be some interest in this

Sorry about the focus, but believe me, this wire is real.
My friend works for a company which manufactures UPSs somehow employing extremely large copper coils and flywheels. Anyway he sent me the spool of #12 AWG wire and I recently asked him how often he gets these 20-30 pounds spool ends. He said the company scraps 2 to 3 spools like this per week!
two to three spools per week which they sell as scrap?
We have to get this product to this group I said
Here I am posting it, I'll make the hook ups or get my buddy to register here so you can trade directly.

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Re: Copper wire #12AWG, lots of wire
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Smiley Sounds great. Looking forward to details.

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Re: Copper wire #12AWG, lots of wire
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Cool I'll make sure he registers and posts some info on how to contact him. I do know he is in Texas, which is a gigantic state so we'll need exact location.
I've got the notify by email feature switched on, so I will keep an eye on this thread

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Re: Copper wire #12AWG, lots of wire
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is there 20 or 30 lbs left on the rolls?

and is 12 gauge all he gets?

put me on the list of interested parties, most especially if he has access to lighter gauges as well.

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Re: Copper wire #12AWG, lots of wire
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2010, 08:23:58 PM »
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This is the comment he left on my newsletter "We probably end up with around 50-80 lbs a week in scrap.   which is about 2-3 spools of what I sent you. We just get the scrap copper recycling rate for it so I would be happy to sell it to someone who would use it.
Mackenzie"
I can't recall exactly the pounds as far as shipping either, guess 30 lbs
As far as I know, they use all #12AWG
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