Recent content by Mplunket

yeah, thats exactly what i was thinking!

k, i reworked the plan, and here's what i got now, i think this is a pretty good start: on the dimmer pack, each light will have its own plug (4ch w/ 2 sock per chan), so the reds will be on one chan, blues on another, etc. -8 par38 w/ 250w bulbs -8 gels (2 red, 2 blue, 2 yellow, 2 green)...

Here is the first one I came up with: 4 Chauvet Omega Intel. Lights DMX-40 2 DMX-24 dimmer packs 8 par-38 cans w/ gels steel truss w/ 2 tripods and here's the new one i came up with: 10 Par-38B Cans 10 250w par38 bulbs 3 Axman Light Stands DMX-40 2 DMX-24 Dimmer packs 3 gel...

thanks for that tip, i guess i need to think of creative ways to use available lights for less money. i'll try to get some ideas going and see if i can cut the cost down, while keeping the display up! ;-)

grrr.....thanks for letting me know that DMXtools...now i really want to get the Omega II instead. but thats like $500 more or so. we were hoping to spend about $1000, but maybe it's going to cost us a little more than we thought :-(

thanks for the help, man. we appear to have similar setups! i can't wait to get this stuff and start messing around with it. i'm just hoping i can program some cool stuff for the intel lights! hehe

heh, one more q: if you have 4 pars going into a 4 ch. dimmer, then into the controller, can you control the individual lights, or do all the pars get put into one unit because of the dimmer? i'm guessing the first, since they are on separate channels on the dimmer, just not sure exactly ;-)

that's great, i just wanted to know how many channels the pars would take up going through the dimmer. this makes me happy ;-) I found a site called High Energy Lighting. has anyone had experience from them before? good/bad? they have some pretty good deals on their with their gift cards, so...

ok... i checked out ebay...found 6 par 56's for $25..pretty good deal. one question-- if i have 4 intelligent lights (and the board i'm gonna get says it can support 12 intel lights with 16 channels each), if i just put pars in it, is that going to count as much as an intelligent light, or is my...

thanks guys, i've been reading a lot about how exactly all this works, and i think i have a pretty good idea. we were also thinking of getting like 4-8 par cans to throw in the setup as well. so my understanding is, we run the par cans through a dimmer, and then run the dimmer into the dmx-40...

coo, thanks for helping with the q's!

for now, that controller's a little out of our price range. our budget is like $800, and $600 we are throwing in to the lights.

i haven't decided for sure yet...i wanted to get something thats fairly inexpensive, but could allow us to expand with more lights...that would also be easy to create chases/scenes and whatnot, i was looking at the DMX-40 and the Behringer Eurolight LC2412. Any recommendations?

coo, i just didn't want to throw down $180 for a dimmer, when it didn't seem to really add anything necessary hehe, well everything should work out pretty well. now i just need to learn the controller in & out ;-)

ok, here are some more pointed questions: - What exactly is the function of a dimmer? in relation to a controller? - In order to have a complete setup, with intel. lights & chases/scenes and everything, what all equipment do I need? (bare bones) well, i guess that's it for now