Hello,
I am Charles Belcher from Dallas, Texas. I do an Extreme Christmas Light display at our house during the season.
This year had around 60,000 lights synchronized to music via Light-o-rama software. We had around 300 channels of conventional LOR micro processor units and 3200 channels of DMX controlled automated fixtures, Colorado 3 wash lights, fog, snow, laser and LED X-Curtain eve and roof lights.
We also had a 10' wide x 7' high LED tube grid pixel mapped to a Martin Maxedia Media Server which rendered text, flash files, jpg's and wmv files.
The finale' of the 17.5 minute show was a live performance by Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus on a 20' x 8' stage we built on the roof of our house!
OK, you get the idea.
Here is a link to this year's production:
[media]http://www.vimeo.com/2735546[/media]
Here is a link to the 2007 production.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_AKkAwxuo8[/media]
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Now, on to the question. I want to build a 20' diameter revolving stage in the front yard for 2009. It will be divided by flats with a Christmas scene at the top of the show, then revolve to a setting with Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus in rocking chairs, a fireplace and a Christmas tree. They will start decorating the tree then segue into a full blown rock and roll dance.
The question is how best to accomplish this task. Specifically, I need to know what how to marry a DC motor to a gear reduction system in order to get to 1 RPM, then how to marry that to a rubber wheel on the rear outside of the turntable.
I have a 20' diameter circle truss I can use and I can thrown some 12' truss on top of that as a sub-structure for the staging decks. I will cement a 3" or 4" pipe into the ground as the receiving unit for the pipe which will attach to the center hub.
The center hub is the next problem for me. Without custom fabricating something out of aluminum and spending a bunch of money, is there something in the world, possibly another industry, that could work for this?
I will need electric on stage, but I will run a line up through the center for that, then turn the set one direction then back the other direction to keep the cables from twisting. I will also use wireless DMX to control on stage fixtures.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Charles
I am Charles Belcher from Dallas, Texas. I do an Extreme Christmas Light display at our house during the season.
This year had around 60,000 lights synchronized to music via Light-o-rama software. We had around 300 channels of conventional LOR micro processor units and 3200 channels of DMX controlled automated fixtures, Colorado 3 wash lights, fog, snow, laser and LED X-Curtain eve and roof lights.
We also had a 10' wide x 7' high LED tube grid pixel mapped to a Martin Maxedia Media Server which rendered text, flash files, jpg's and wmv files.
The finale' of the 17.5 minute show was a live performance by Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus on a 20' x 8' stage we built on the roof of our house!
OK, you get the idea.
Here is a link to this year's production:
[media]http://www.vimeo.com/2735546[/media]
Here is a link to the 2007 production.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_AKkAwxuo8[/media]
____________________________________________
Now, on to the question. I want to build a 20' diameter revolving stage in the front yard for 2009. It will be divided by flats with a Christmas scene at the top of the show, then revolve to a setting with Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus in rocking chairs, a fireplace and a Christmas tree. They will start decorating the tree then segue into a full blown rock and roll dance.
The question is how best to accomplish this task. Specifically, I need to know what how to marry a DC motor to a gear reduction system in order to get to 1 RPM, then how to marry that to a rubber wheel on the rear outside of the turntable.
I have a 20' diameter circle truss I can use and I can thrown some 12' truss on top of that as a sub-structure for the staging decks. I will cement a 3" or 4" pipe into the ground as the receiving unit for the pipe which will attach to the center hub.
The center hub is the next problem for me. Without custom fabricating something out of aluminum and spending a bunch of money, is there something in the world, possibly another industry, that could work for this?
I will need electric on stage, but I will run a line up through the center for that, then turn the set one direction then back the other direction to keep the cables from twisting. I will also use wireless DMX to control on stage fixtures.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Charles