Get together in January for Florida laser hobbyists.?.

[buffo]

I'm confused... You still have the QM 2000 board in the main PC right? So the QM 2000.net adapter itself does what, exactly? If I'm reading this correctly, it acts as a separate display board... Sort of like having a second QM 2000 board that is local to the projector but still conencted to the main PC via either Ethernet cable or a wireless network adapter.

If I understand this correctly, it would be used to control multiple projectors simultaneously from a single PC. Does the Pangolin software automatically support multiple output cards for multiple projectors? How many?

Let me run with this for a second... So once you get a basic system, you can add projectors for just $300 a pop, and each one of those extra projectors will be capable of *independently* doing any effect (including abstracts) that the one connected to the QM 2000 board can do, just as if there was a whole separate QM 2000 board connected to a second computer running that other projector(s), right?

Holy shit!

Tell me I'm getting this correctly....

Adam

[DZ]

I'm confused... You still have the QM 2000 board in the main PC right? So the QM 2000.net adapter itself does what, exactly? If I'm reading this correctly, it acts as a separate display board... Sort of like having a second QM 2000 board that is local to the projector but still conencted to the main PC via either Ethernet cable or a wireless network adapter.

If I understand this correctly, it would be used to control multiple projectors simultaneously from a single PC. Does the Pangolin software automatically support multiple output cards for multiple projectors? How many?

Let me run with this for a second... So once you get a basic system, you can add projectors for just $300 a pop, and each one of those extra projectors will be capable of *independently* doing any effect (including abstracts) that the one connected to the QM 2000 board can do, just as if there was a whole separate QM 2000 board connected to a second computer running that other projector(s), right?

Hmm, maybe I was a bit misleading in my excitement. You have to have a QM board no matter what to run the software. Let say you just have one QM board. But you want to run it on a laptop without a dock or that external box that Pangolin brought to FLEM. You would put the QM board in a pc next to the projector. That pc will have either a wired or wireless network so that your laptop can access it. So the software communicates to that QM board through your network. The OEM QM2000.net, basically just replaces the PC. You still need to have the QM card, the QM2000.net is just a board with a pci slot and network interface. And I think the total number of boards that a QM2000 Pro card will run is 30. So you can have a pro card in your main pc, and up to 29 intro cards networked. That would make for one wicked show!

David

[JimBo]

It looks like you only need 1 LD2000 in the control computer running the software and you can put the .net adaptors (@$295 each) in as many projectors you are using and network them together. So the price ends up being $1495 + $295 + $295 + $295............


Jim

[buffo]

Ahhh... Ok - so this unit allows you to replace the PC that is local to the projector (in your example) with this small board, but you still need to plug the QM 2000 board into this .net adapter... Then you can control the whole thing from a laptop that is networked to the adapter but doesn't have a QM board because it doesn't have a PCI slot to plug it in to.

If you wanted to have two projectors, you'd still need two QM 2000 boards, but you could plug each one of them into one of these .net adapters and then control them both from your PCI-less laptop.

Is that right?

Adam

[clandestiny]

yes you still need one card per scan head, unless you want to run mutiple heads with the same output.
the way i have done this before without the pangolin network is to simply use a kvm extender. leave your pc at the projector and run a keyboard and monitor to front of house via cat5.

[marconi]

Sorry all we had to leave right at the very beginning
Altho I am very glad to have gone even just for a few minutes and
meet most of all who came..
Its always good to see faces to match our friends we have met here.
I really wanted to see the Pangolin system..I'm saving my allowance

If it wasnt for the Main TV transmitter failing we would have been able to stay..
I didnt get done with the repair until after 6pm.
We were very hungry and had to stop and eat finding I had left my
wallet at home some 45miles away..so off to get that and get food for all the girls and myself..
By the time we were done 2 of the girls were tired and went home.
We talked about coming back but the transmitter was on my mind and I was elected the boss at
the day job for a few weeks due to a family emergency... so that took care of that.

Ah well, ..Maybe next time..

[clandestiny]

mr allthatwhichis- do you remember seeing all those kvms in one of the cases and asking me what they where for?
those are my pre pangolin network- network 8)

[DZ]

Ahhh... Ok - so this unit allows you to replace the PC that is local to the projector (in your example) with this small board, but you still need to plug the QM 2000 board into this .net adapter... Then you can control the whole thing from a laptop that is networked to the adapter but doesn't have a QM board because it doesn't have a PCI slot to plug it in to.

If you wanted to have two projectors, you'd still need two QM 2000 boards, but you could plug each one of them into one of these .net adapters and then control them both from your PCI-less laptop.

Is that right?

Adam

You got it!

It works pretty good on the network, a bit slower, but its a great feature. And now with the ability to get rid of the host PC all together is great. I had tried to figure out a way to put the QM2000 in my projector, but it would have required a very small pc, something like a single board computer with a pci slot, but even that would have taken up too much real estate in the projector. Now with this OEM network part, I would be able to easily integrate it into my already finished projector due to its very small size. Oh, my ideas have been endless today thinking of this product, too bad my capital isn't endless! :roll:

David

PS-anyone going to post video of flem? I've been dying to show my wife the fun she missed! :twisted:

[allthatwhichis]

You get the QM I got dibs on your stuff...

I got a little video, 40 minutes or so but it'll take me till this week end to get it off the camera. My cousin also got some pictures but I also won't have them to this week end. :roll: buffo got he best video I bet. Well, unless that beastly lexel didn't kill it with some of the beam shots I saw hitting it. :lol:

clandestiny... your what :?: ... :?

[buffo]

David;

Cool... Thanks for the clarification. And I know what you mean about not having "endless capital"... I just had to get my Jeep towed to the shop AGAIN. (sigh) At least it didn't die on me in Florida.

Allthat: KVM = Keyboard, Video, Mouse: a box that lets you connect a single monitor, mouse, and keyboard to multiple computers and then switch between them. They also come with long cables so you can have the keyboard, mouse and monitor quite far away from the computers.

As far as the video goes - a lot of it turned out like crap. Turns out the auto-focus on the camera was screwed up. I noticed it was acting funny later in the evening and just set it on manual, which solved the problem, but the eariler stuff goes in and out of focus. (grrrr...) Still, there is a lot of good video of the beamshows, and I captured a few of Bill's graphics shows as well.

I was also dissapointed at the poor color resolution. I guess there just wasn't enough light in there for my camera. The beamshows look pretty good, but the graphics shows don't show as much color as they should. (Lots of the lines just look white.) But I suppose I shouldn't complain; it's an old camera after all.

I need to digitize all the footage (over 3 hours!) and then go in and edit out the junk and cut it up into usable-sized pieces. Will probably take me a while, but when I get it done I'll give it all to Spec and he'll host it here on PL.

Adam