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Article #16372Re: Connecting multiple strobe lights
From: Luke Nosek
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 07:27
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 07:27
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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
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!ux4.cso.uiuc.edu!lnosek From: lnosek@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Luke Nosek) Subject: Re: Connecting multiple strobe lights References: <C0Bo01.Gus@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <alwrq3l@SantaFe.edu> Message-ID: <C0F8p8.16B@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 07:27:06 GMT Lines: 23