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💬General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: bitman on December 21, 2008, 09:56:00 PM
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Some time ago I was turned on to the fact here that a powerflash will accept audio as a trigger.
This opened up a whole world of goodies for me.
I have an extra line output in a 24 track digital audio workstation that I sent to the powerflash.
I had to increase the powerflash sensitivity by tweaking the input circuitry a bit but once I did I was able to send a tone to the powerflash when the workstation is in record mode, turning on any lights on its HC/UC. - sweet.
But moreover, if you remove the HC/UC dials from a lamp controller or appliance controller, they default to M-13. So I went about building lightboxes and buying commercial ones and building the controller guts right inside them.
It's so neat to be able to stick these up wherever I have power nearby, all set to M-13 and have them dance like marionettes to the record mode of the system.
I have one in the tracking room, in the enternce to the studio and portable light boxes that I can take with me on location.
I even put a powerflash inside an ALESIS ADAT portable recorder. And by sensing the record led with a paralleled opto isolator the ADAT actually send M-13 ON/OFF commands out of it's own AC socket turning on the portable record lights that I can set on a piano etc.
This is so cool.
And I'm not even using BVC yet! rofl
And I hope I haven't told this story already.
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bitman,
Very cool! 8)
Get's a "helpful" from me! >!
#:)
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Some time ago I was turned on to the fact here that a powerflash will accept audio as a trigger. This opened up a whole world of goodies for me.
Using X10 to turn lights on and off remotely... or by timer is cool. But finding and using those lesser known and used X10 functions with a bit of imagination.... That's awesome! Your going to enjoy BVC (http://davesdomainonline.com/bvc/bvc.htm) and the things it allows you to do.