Beam Rail effects deck ~ time to wire

[polishedball]

Made some good progress on my beam rail effects deck today. Have some wiring ahead of me to get the drivers, control, etc done but this should be pretty nice once complete. It will be fullly controlled by a LSX timeline.

Looks like the video is taking some time to process should be available soon.

[Bradfo69]

Dude... are you sporting a grey beard these days?? When your head ducked into the picture it looked like it.

Oh yeah, and the laser's looking good too. (Like the poly20!)

[DZ]

Wow, that thing is looking awesome, John! Can't wait to see it running at SELEM!

Dude... are you sporting a grey beard these days??

Saw that too, yeah kids will do that to you!

[polishedball]

Dude... are you sporting a grey beard these days?? When your head ducked into the picture it looked like it.
!)

Yeah that is the case, it is the wife's choice. I prefer shaving now and again.

[polishedball]

Hooked up the driver board built a temp switch box. Everything worked as expected. No more holding gm20s with my fingers . Looking for input for a power supply for the driver board. I am currently using a big transformer. The driver card takes 2 AC inputs each hits a bridge and then creates the plus / minus 15v. Looking to get rid of the big transformer but the smaller solutions I have tried pop the fuses each time. I just can't figure out why two small supplies fail but the big transformer works. Not positive but I think I can feed this DC even though the bridge is there and it will just pass it. Any thoughts should I hit it with +\- 18 and see what happens?

DZ that driver look familiar?

[Displaser]

Nice effects table!

Have you been able to control the Poly-20 rotation? Seems like you were working on that a while back.

[polishedball]

Nice effects table!

Have you been able to control the Poly-20 rotation? Seems like you were working on that a while back.

Through an audrino I have been able to control the stepper motors. I'm using the poly drive on this one though and the audrino on the big wheel in front of the scanners.

[polishedball]

Added a spinning diffraction wheel infron of the one side of the poly20. Well worth it. So now one side out of poly is clean and the other diffracted. Really would like to come up with a way to switch in and out spinning wheels esp for my projector, but I lack the equipment (perhaps talent) to machine the needed parts.

Also shattered a bunch of glass trying to make my torture tube

[Displaser]

So now one side out of poly is clean and the other diffracted.

That's exactly what I had planned - dual pick-off mirrors to hit both sides, one with the additional DG in front.

Also shattered a bunch of glass trying to make my torture tube

Send me a PM. I can help...

Greg

[polishedball]

Send me a PM. I can help...

Greg

Thanks!


Added red correction today, this meant taking off the top deck. Happy to report the beams all pretty much lined right back up.