It's hard to get LED's to go up that high, so most are just fringe purple. They have been getting better, but no where near's the "C" germicidal wavelengths! Gas tube discharge blacklights are the ones you have to worry about. (florescent, HID) The germicidal tubes are cheap and usually have clear glass.20 buck UV only units
So how do we tell if the UV is safe? I never purchased that radiometer.
or go to a computer recycling event and pick up several dozen for free! I have a ton of them in a box somewhere from all the computes and monitors I've scrapped over the years.
btw- Those do appear to be the exact same ones.
True. And when I clicked the link, the page had the channel layout and it is different then the layout of the ones I got.Yeah, I have tons of male edison to female IEC cables laying around. It's the the male IEC to female IEC cables that I generally have to buy. The lights I linked could be exactly the same, or they might be slightly different. My guess is that one or two factories make the plastic shells, and then there are different companies that actually make the fixtures. Some will have different LEDs, power supplies, controllers, dmx profiles, etc. And since they buy componets wherever they can get them cheapest even buying from the same supplier is no guarantee that the lights you buy today will match the ones you bought yesterday.
You don't get much of a curve with these things! Wouldn't surprise me if they were using 4 bit processing, which is common in those pic microcontrolers they love to use.This is astounding. I am curious how the dimming is - whether smooth at low end or not.
A hundred of these for the price of one good quality popular manufacturer unit. Freaky.
This is astounding. I am curious how the dimming is - whether smooth at low end or not.
A hundred of these for the price of one good quality popular manufacturer unit. Freaky.
You might find a generic fixture in Freesyler. To find out how a lamp works patch a bunch of dimmers and then what I do is put them at 50% and then play with each one to see what they do. once you figure that out you can write your own profile or use the correct generic one.Hey all. So I have decided to learn more about DMX, and to that end I bought a Lixada USB to DMX cable and eight of those Lixada RGBW PAR cans to experiment with. The cable came with a super-basic piece of DMX mixing software called FreeStyler 512. I'm figuring it out bit by bit, but there doesn't seem to be any presets for Lixada lights to put into the mixer so I can map the lights. Pure newbie here, but can anyone lend some insight? Or is there some other software that would be easier to get started with?
Thanks in advance -
One of the reasons there may not be a "profile" is there is not too much consistency on what channels do what! I just bought a few of the more expensive (Ha!) $12 models, and the first thing I noticed is that even though they are identical, they moved some of the channels around! (#1 used to be the master, now it's #4, etc.) So, the lesson is, if you want to buy a bunch of them, make sure they are all from the same batch!Hey all. So I have decided to learn more about DMX, and to that end I bought a Lixada USB to DMX cable and eight of those Lixada RGBW PAR cans to experiment with. The cable came with a super-basic piece of DMX mixing software called FreeStyler 512. I'm figuring it out bit by bit, but there doesn't seem to be any presets for Lixada lights to put into the mixer so I can map the lights. Pure newbie here, but can anyone lend some insight? Or is there some other software that would be easier to get started with?
Thanks in advance -
More likely a bait and switch marketing tactic to get your attention. I bet you can't add it to a cart at that price.
Yea. At first I thought there was a problem, but then I realized I was forgetting to hit the enter button after setting it
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