2 Breakout Boards in 1 Projector?

[eighty8]

Okay, I know the first thing many of you may say is WHYYY????
My answer is that I cannot build my own boards and I have not yet found a board with the capability of everything I need.
Here is my thought. I have a sysem in place that has a very nice breakout board (it has ILDA in and out and many other nice connections), but does not implement many of the safety features such as interlocks, reset, etc. Is it possible (or even a good idea) for me to daisy chain the two boards?

This is the board I have: $(KGrHqZ,!lwE65jmZmO(BOwMnwMEQw~~60_3.JPG
This is the Stanwax board I bought and want to try to daisy chain:ilda-interface-board-ilda-breakout-board-55-p.jpg http://shop.stanwaxlaser.co.uk/ilda-...board-55-p.asp

Am I overlooking something here? Do you think Stanwax would soulder another ILDA connection for output onto their board if I asked them?

Thanks

[stanwax]

Hmmmmm
Now putting myself in your shoes I would ask the question 'who would be the best person to ask about this?'

Rob

[White-Light]

Mat Ilda.

Maybe you should ask him.

[norty303]

Do you think Stanwax would soulder another ILDA connection for output onto their board if I asked them?

Would they solder another output connector to their board that has an option for an output connector built onto it?

Sure, I'm sure they would....

[michelrietveld]

you still want to use the pt itrust capabilities to show some basic paterns, add dmx and use stanwax's ilda board for the missing safety features? did i understand correctly?
and you mentioned soldering the ilda out onto the board instead of using the one on the ribon cable that should come along with the board, may i ask why?

for dmx this could also be found on several dac's i beleive, like qm2000 there is a cable to support dmx and i think the fb3 is availlable with dmx, correct me if i am wrong.

Michel

[eighty8]

you still want to use the pt itrust capabilities to show some basic paterns, add dmx and use stanwax's ilda board for the missing safety features? did i understand correctly?
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Michel,
You are correct. I'm not really concerend about the DMX. I would just like an ILDA out and in and the pt itrust capabilities in addition to the saftey features on the Stanwax board.

and you mentioned soldering the ilda out onto the board instead of using the one on the ribon cable that should come along with the board, may i ask why?l

At the time of writing the original post, I was thinking this would be an easy way to bridge the 2 boards together and get the most out of both of them, but now I see this wouldn't work. Also I have QS2.0/FB3.

The more I think about this, the more I'm lead in the direction of just using the Stanwax board and giving up the basic patterns capability. As i have the FB3-XE I just probably need to learn how to use the memory card (via LiveQUICK). I have not spent enough time with the product yet as I have just converted from Phoenix Live 3.

Thanks
-Eighty8
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Projectors:
1x 500mW RGV TTL - Work in progress (red 650nm@200mW/green 532nm 100mW/violet 405nm@200mW)
3x 1W RGB Analog - Work in progress (red 650nm@500mW/green 532nm@200mW/blue 445nm @300mW)

Controllers:
Phoenix Live 3
QS 2.0/FB3-XE
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[White-Light]

The reason I mentioned Matt Ilda above is Stanwax laser already make a breakout board with 2 outputs or more on it:

http://danielbriggs.co.uk/laser/matilda/

I believe a 2 output board is £25.

How it connects with your existing board is something to ask Stanwax or Daniel Briggs, both members on here.

[KGB]

This isn't a hard thing to do at all....just take the RGB+- and XY+- OUT from the stanwax board and connect that to the RGB+- XY+- IN on the DMX board.

So from the dac to Stanwax board...then out of the stanwax board to the DMX board.

[norty303]

Just to be clear, the MatILDA board is a buffer board, not necessarily a breakout board exclusively (although it could be used as such - not my choice of implementation though....)

The Stanwax board already has an option for in and out, all you need is the adaptor cable (iirc).

[michelrietveld]

If you like ilda then what do you need from the pt-itrust, it is several bad pics and some beam shows out of the box set to full scale, i replaced my pt-itrust as soon as the stanwax board was availlable.
so if it is not dmx you need then why use it at all??? (little confused)

Michel

Michel,
You are correct. I'm not really concerend about the DMX. I would just like an ILDA out and in and the pt itrust capabilities in addition to the saftey features on the Stanwax board.


At the time of writing the original post, I was thinking this would be an easy way to bridge the 2 boards together and get the most out of both of them, but now I see this wouldn't work. Also I have QS2.0/FB3.

The more I think about this, the more I'm lead in the direction of just using the Stanwax board and giving up the basic patterns capability. As i have the FB3-XE I just probably need to learn how to use the memory card (via LiveQUICK). I have not spent enough time with the product yet as I have just converted from Phoenix Live 3.

Thanks
-Eighty8
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Projectors:
1x 500mW RGV TTL - Work in progress (red 650nm@200mW/green 532nm 100mW/violet 405nm@200mW)
3x 1W RGB Analog - Work in progress (red 650nm@500mW/green 532nm@200mW/blue 445nm @300mW)

Controllers:
Phoenix Live 3
QS 2.0/FB3-XE
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[eighty8]

If you like ilda then what do you need from the pt-itrust, it is several bad pics and some beam shows out of the box set to full scale, i replaced my pt-itrust as soon as the stanwax board was availlable.
so if it is not dmx you need then why use it at all??? (little confused)

Michel

Michel, I don't want to have to bring a computer to every event. Now that I think about it, pt-itrust is not exactly safe because you can't control zones or where the lasers hit. Although, I know there is a way to achieve putting pre-made shows onto the memory card I have on my FB3 interface and this way it is not only safer because I can make them not full scale, but I still don't have to have the computer. I'm probably going to just have to find someone to send me a pre-made shows on a memory card as I've read in the forums it's no longer achievable with the latest software and firmware and they are no longer supporting it.

[michelrietveld]

well a small notebook should be able to give a much better showexperience than the build in capabilities of the pt-itrust.