A novices project w Color Kinetics, elementary help needed. Project thread.
Hi guys
Even though my english is limited i would really appreciate if you took the time and read this
thru.
Im making a new thread and ill try to keep all my questions in here. Seems its better i start to explain it all from the beginning.
I have never even looked this way before, at lighting that is.
I own a restaurant/pub in Sweden. I fantasized for some time to put some nice lighting in the restaurant to
wash the walls and ceiling. I understood that it would cost a lot to do that, so i looked at alternative lighting like
rgb stripes and christmas lighting leds (dont laugh please) to put behind frosted glass in my bar and some other places. Well, that was just thoughts, i even bought a
strand with christmas leds and put behind glass and saw how beutiful it could end up with the real things.
As i coincidence some time after that i went on an online auction of a night club that was closing. I was looking for a double fryer and some furniture.
Call it luck, coincidence or even faith, but there they were. Color Kinetics fixtures lying in a box. 40pcs IColor
Cove MX Powercore. I went on to look more detailed about the auction items. There was everything i have dreamt of, a lot of
RGB led lighting.
Seemed like nobody was specially interested in them or didnt really understand what it was but it ended up me buying all
RGB lighting from that night club for a price that i think is like almost getting it for free?
You guys maybe can tell me if it was a good buy/price? Many of the
Cove MX i found under floors, and all
Cove EC in the walls. Nobody knew about them before, but the auction company let me take them also for free if ibjust cleaned up the mess after taking it all down.
For 12500SEK, approx 1900$ i got the following:
Color Kinetics:
5 x Data Enabler
Ethernet #106-000003-05
Data Formatting Power Supply for LED lighting- Philips Color Kinetics
17 x
Power/Data Supply #109-000020-02
Philips Color Kinetics PDS-60ca 12V
(strangely, there isnt any info on CK website of this item. 1
DMX out, 1 combined
DMX/
Ethernet in)
6 x
Power/Data Supply #109-000020-03
Philips Color Kinetics PDS-60ca 12V
(
DMX/
Ethernet)
6 x
Power/Data Supply #109-000016-02
Power Data Supply for LED Lighting - Philips Color Kinetics PDS-60ca 24V
(
Ethernet)
3 x Eth Ctrl Keypad #
103-000017-00 Philips Color Kinetics - LED Lighting Controller Accessories - Ethernet Controller Keypad
(no info on CK website, found a
http://www.colorkinetics.com/support/datasheets/EnetKeypad.pdf
170 x iColor
Cove MX Powercore #123-000004-??
Philips Color Kinetics - Cove LED Lighting Fixtures - iColor Cove MX Powercore
Theres no last 2 digits on the item number so i dont know the
beam angle.
64 x Icolor
Cove EC #101-000022-00
Philips Color Kinetics - Cove LED Lighting Fixtures - iColor Cove EC
20+ x Icolor Flex SLX strands #101-000053
Philips Color Kinetics - LED Lighting Fixtures
Mixed white and black colors cable. White translucent domes.
Also there was numerous of
ethernet switches, 1 Asrock 330ht(which i thought was the hardware to controll all, but wasnt), numerous
ethernet cables.
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Iplayer 2 w. Ps60
power supply. This item i bought from US for 275$, thought i needed it to control things. Well I can use it with the
Cove EC, but not with the
Cove MX due to powersupplies are
ethernet and not
DMX.
Ive looked on all drawings at CK website and it seems that i miss CK Light
System Manager. I found one today for 1000$, should i buy it?
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What do i want to do and accomplish with all this?
This are my thoughts about it all. I want to put color on my walls and ceiling, behind glass in the bar. I want to give the restaurant a warm nice feeling. Sorry if i suck at expressing my self and use wrong words, i do the best i can.
I know just putting it all up will be a lot of work but i really need to know if this is the right equipment for me?
The walls: i want light to shine down on them, not necessary all the way down but 6ft at least.
The ceiling: same as walls
the Bar: ill have either white mat plexiglass or real frosted kind of glass tha i want to shine and change colors.
Bathrooms: some plexiglass in walls.
My knowledge about lighting = 0
Thats why im here, hopefully ill learn a lot in the process of making my project come to life.
I feel like im maybe not so good at expressing my self and that it makes hard for you guys to understand, but i hope some of you got the hang of it. I really need help here.
So, ive put all my equipment up, i tried to explain what i want to do, and if theres anything more that i missed just tell me and ill write it down.
Best regards Sasha