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- From: lnosek@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Luke Nosek)
- Subject: Re: Connecting multiple strobe lights
- References: <C0Bo01.Gus@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <alwrq3l@SantaFe.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 07:27:06 GMT
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- andy@laguna.santafe.edu (Andy Mell) writes:
-
- >In article <C0Bo01.Gus@news.cso.uiuc.edu> lnosek@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Luke Nosek) writes:
- >>
- >> I have these three strobe lights and I want to make them flash
- >>synchronously, with minimum interconnection. Here is the schematic -
- >>I may have interpreted wrongly so feel free to tell me if something doesn't
- >>make sense:
- >>
-
- >Commercial disco strobes do not work like this, if you have a chain of say
- >200 strobe tubes around a dance hall they have to be easily triggered.
- >If you want to maintain compatability with the industry you should allow for
- >a cannon XLR connector on the back of your strobe, two - one for in and
- >one for out The strobe should be configured to flash on every single
- >positive going edge recieved between pins 1 &2 on the XLR, max voltage is
- >about 5-10 V, but not fussy. So you would need a circuit that discharges the
- >tube on every 5V spike received.
-
- Unfortunately, this is the schematic of the strobe lights that I have to
- work with. They are not meant to be interconnected - this is just a hack that I
- want to do.
- Luke Nosek
-