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spin mobile disco
24-08-2007, 10:50 AM
Im running a new set of dmx light and am having problems getting them to align when all set to relative positions. Let me try to explain:
4 of the lights are acme dynamo's whan they are all up on the trussing and set they all point at different hights. Noe I knw what your all going to say it must be the trussing or the brackets need adjusting. But its not. All lights are set exactly the same angle same bracket etc. The difference is about 3 foot up or down difference as projected onto floor or cieling etc.
Now Im pretty sure it is a problem with the angle of the mirror and I was wondering if I should undo the allen key and adjust them or is this a bad idea.
Or if this is a good idea anyone have a step by step guid to doing this or just set lights to a position on controller and manually adjust until they look right?

Thanks for any help on this guys at a bit of a bugbear, having to create new dmx chases to account for lopsidedness of mirrors lol.

Larry B Entertainment
24-08-2007, 06:42 PM
Yes, i would allign them all up as you have said, set them to a static position using the controller and manually calibrate the mirrors.

Jiggles
24-08-2007, 06:47 PM
heheh i had a same problem (Sort of) with my squeeses all i need to do was move the internal mirrors around abit and it looked fine!!