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BillieTheBot
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Disco lights? :-)
This is no £10 disco ball that you find in Argos. I'm talking about DMX shiznit - 4 PAR cans, 2 moving heads, 2 stage blinders, a halogen projector, a smoke machine and a few other LED fixtures. Light-hobbiest I may be, I don't play music loud. I might turn it up before 8PM, but they're only crappy 5.1 PC speakers, and I always switch to headphones after 8PM. By sticking to that, I've not had complaints in the 2 years that I've lived at my house. Neighbours on one side of me keep changing, so it must be a rented house. Neighbours on my other side are a young family and I get on with them really well.
So yeah, um, lights :-D I know they can be a pain for astronomers who wants to watch stars via telescope and I can understand that because they'll regard any lighting as "light pollution". What if a local walks past my house and sees the bottom two windows flashing like a UFO? :-)
If the worst comes to the worst, I'll simply buy some blackout curtains which would serve as a thicker layer over the existing set.
Any thoughts? It's just paranoia more than anything else.
In case there are other light-hobbiest on the ship, these are the technical specs of my rig :-)
- 4 151-LED PAR64s (DMX 6 channels)
- 2 Laserworld 18-LED (luxeon) moving heads (DMX 10 channels)
- Futurelite EVO-5 projector (DMX 5 channels)
- 2 36-LED (luxeon) Geni Power Blinders (DMX 16 channels)
- 8-piece mood column with 384 LEDs (non-DMX)
- Antari Z1200 fogger, 18000 cu.ft/min (DMX 1 channel)
- DMX Wizard 512 USB interface & software for the PC
This is no £10 disco ball that you find in Argos. I'm talking about DMX shiznit - 4 PAR cans, 2 moving heads, 2 stage blinders, a halogen projector, a smoke machine and a few other LED fixtures. Light-hobbiest I may be, I don't play music loud. I might turn it up before 8PM, but they're only crappy 5.1 PC speakers, and I always switch to headphones after 8PM. By sticking to that, I've not had complaints in the 2 years that I've lived at my house. Neighbours on one side of me keep changing, so it must be a rented house. Neighbours on my other side are a young family and I get on with them really well.
So yeah, um, lights :-D I know they can be a pain for astronomers who wants to watch stars via telescope and I can understand that because they'll regard any lighting as "light pollution". What if a local walks past my house and sees the bottom two windows flashing like a UFO? :-)
If the worst comes to the worst, I'll simply buy some blackout curtains which would serve as a thicker layer over the existing set.
Any thoughts? It's just paranoia more than anything else.
In case there are other light-hobbiest on the ship, these are the technical specs of my rig :-)
- 4 151-LED PAR64s (DMX 6 channels)
- 2 Laserworld 18-LED (luxeon) moving heads (DMX 10 channels)
- Futurelite EVO-5 projector (DMX 5 channels)
- 2 36-LED (luxeon) Geni Power Blinders (DMX 16 channels)
- 8-piece mood column with 384 LEDs (non-DMX)
- Antari Z1200 fogger, 18000 cu.ft/min (DMX 1 channel)
- DMX Wizard 512 USB interface & software for the PC
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but anyway, do you actually like the LEDS? even tho you seem to have quite powerful ones...do you not think the output still leaves a lot to be desired?
i work in the lighting industry albeit not in performance lighting and cant fucking stand LEDS, but people have got it in their heads that its the future, whereas i feel the technology still has a long way to go before it catches up with traditional methods..just a personal opinion.
no.
You're taking steps to not piss off your neighbours, so you'll be fine.
LuckyStrike - I've been interested in nightclub lighting since 2001 but didn't start as a hobbiest until late 2005. I decided to go straight for LED fixtures because they are lower maintenance without requiring replacement lamps and I enjoy the novelty of being able to specify 24-bit colour (0-255, 0-255, 0-255) exactly how I'd sample colours in Paintshop Pro or Photoshop! The PARs only have the regular LEDs. When you put 151 together, it is only about as bright as a 40W regular bulb. When you step into the luxeon world though, trust me, these Power Blinders are pretty potent. On a DMX dimmer scale from 0 to 255, a value of 39 is bright enough to light up a living room as if it's on a 100W regular bulb. Now change that 39 to a 255 and it's practically like daylight :-)
If you are interested in using luxeon fixtures for professional applications, I would jump straight to 3W LEDs (skip the 1W).
id love to have a custom mad light setup to fly like fuck to .. serious!!
fuck the neighbours get the soundsystem rigged up n lets go :cool: :cool: