mattydinx
22-02-2011, 09:39 AM
Hey guys,
Received my Mega Bar's yesterday morning (as promised, thanks DJKit!) and i'm thrilled with 'em!
I bought the twin pack from the DJKit website, which arrived with the two mega bars (each including manual, Euro IEC lead, Remote & brackets), 2x Euro plug adaptors and a free QTX 1.5m DMX lead (which I wasn't expecting, but it's a nice inclusion)
I had a quick play around in the office and couldn't get over how bright they were! - even in a well-lit office in daylight they still kicked out a hell of a lot of light!
Lunchtime came and I linked the two together via the DMX lead - herein lies the only downside. Although the units are remote controllable, one remote will control two fittings - even when one is set in slave mode!
The problem lies in that say you want to change from Auto mode to Sound Active mode for example, One unit is the master, the other is set to slave - pointing the remote at the units (if they're in close proximity to each other) and pressing a button on the remote will bring the unit set as the slave, out of slave mode and follow the instructions from the remote control.
This is only an issue when the lights are in close proximity to one another.
Perhaps a better implementation would have been to disable the IR sensor when a unit is set to slave mode.
Eventually I intend on having everything controlled by a single controller via DMX so this won't be much of a problem - I'll simply set them via the buttons on the back for the time being.
brief video of them in action below :) - the two lights on either end of the stand are iSolution iShow4's running in master/slave. everything is hung from the truss-lite via Ultimax UMGC25165 clamps (the ones with the longer drop)
YouTube - FX-Entertainments Lighting Rig Test - American DJ Mega Bar's & iSolution iShow 4's
Received my Mega Bar's yesterday morning (as promised, thanks DJKit!) and i'm thrilled with 'em!
I bought the twin pack from the DJKit website, which arrived with the two mega bars (each including manual, Euro IEC lead, Remote & brackets), 2x Euro plug adaptors and a free QTX 1.5m DMX lead (which I wasn't expecting, but it's a nice inclusion)
I had a quick play around in the office and couldn't get over how bright they were! - even in a well-lit office in daylight they still kicked out a hell of a lot of light!
Lunchtime came and I linked the two together via the DMX lead - herein lies the only downside. Although the units are remote controllable, one remote will control two fittings - even when one is set in slave mode!
The problem lies in that say you want to change from Auto mode to Sound Active mode for example, One unit is the master, the other is set to slave - pointing the remote at the units (if they're in close proximity to each other) and pressing a button on the remote will bring the unit set as the slave, out of slave mode and follow the instructions from the remote control.
This is only an issue when the lights are in close proximity to one another.
Perhaps a better implementation would have been to disable the IR sensor when a unit is set to slave mode.
Eventually I intend on having everything controlled by a single controller via DMX so this won't be much of a problem - I'll simply set them via the buttons on the back for the time being.
brief video of them in action below :) - the two lights on either end of the stand are iSolution iShow4's running in master/slave. everything is hung from the truss-lite via Ultimax UMGC25165 clamps (the ones with the longer drop)
YouTube - FX-Entertainments Lighting Rig Test - American DJ Mega Bar's & iSolution iShow 4's