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Re: Connecting multiple strobe lights

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From: Luke Nosek
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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