How to Program a 6 Lens Scan Laser: Simple Lesson!
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2020
- Learn to program a 6 Lens RGB Beam Laser in simple steps. Unbox, and then learn about its Features, Functions, DMX Channels, and how to Program Scenes.
You can buy a similar laser (that actually has more features) here:
amzn.to/3gY2JLG
You can also buy the controller shown in this video here:
bit.ly/2Qh0K5b
It would be great if you would do a tour of the little "stage" you have
set up as well as your lighting rig. It looks super interesting and I'd
love to see it all. :) Keep up the great work on the channel.
Thanks for the great suggestion- that would be a fun video to make! Appreciate you watching and the kind words.
Very cool as always! Thanks for taking the time to make these videos. 👍
Appreciate the kind words and thanks for taking the time to watch them!
Thanks for all your content!
Appreciate you watching!
Very cool! Thanks for the tutorials! Lasers are so cool!
I have always been fascinated with lasers! Appreciate all your comments :)
I cannot EVEN believe just how INEXPENSIVE (Cheap) these Lasers are
in today's market.
Twenty years ago or even TEN YEARS AGO, something like this would range
in well over 6 to 8 HUNDRED DOLLARS.
Maybe even MORE.
A few months ago I acquired a small unit for about 16 bucks and back about
1998 I saw one that wasn't ANY WHERE NEAR what my mini laser is and it
was a Laser Widow and was about 150 bucks if I remember it right.
My 16 dollar unit does MORE than the laser widow does.
I am looking at ebay for one like in this demonstration and
I swear --- I GOTTA HAVE ONE.
I have one empty space left in my lighting rig and I am reserving it for a larger
laser than the mini unit I have.
I do believe I have found the one I want after seeing your demo of this BAD-ASS unit.
Thanks for the vid.
IT'S AWESOME.
I totally agree. I actually bought this one for about $80 on eBay. It looks and feels kind of cheap and its functions are limited but when the lights are out and the hazer is on, it looks pretty damn amazing!
@@LearnLizard This unit being demo'd will be the very first DMX effect I will ever have owned.
I have used many different lights but this will be the first DMX i will ever have used.
I like how you do this vid in a way I kind of understand.
I'm sure that once I start playing around with it, I should get the hang of it pretty quick.
Awesome! Thank you for the video !
I appreciate you watching!
Always watching your Video sir Here from Philippines
I really appreciate you watching- thanks so much!
Super tutorial 👍
Thanks so much and appreciate you watching!
Thank you for sharing that video been looking at this Lazer for a while
I hope it works out for you- It does quite a lot for the price
LearnLizard thanks. Will you ever do any videos on sound switch dmx
@@Martinmoore87 Thanks for that suggestion. I've been interested in SoundSwitch. The interface is simple and very reasonably priced, but I don't like the idea of having to pay for a subscription for the software--but maybe I'll give it a go...
LearnLizard if you get it on amazon you get the first 3 months for free to give you a while to learn it I’m still trying to get used to it
@@Martinmoore87 OK- thats good to know
Thanks for the vids.. as always so thorough! I just ordered 9 lens. So excited. My Garage is going to go off ! lol Bloody COVID eh.
Thanks for the kind words and cool about getting the 9 lens! I have been happy with how good it looks (especially for the price) Having haze or fog in the room is really the key to seeing the beams and getting the full effect. Would be great if you could post a video here of it up and running. Appreciate you watching.
Very useful tutorial (thank you for what you're doing).
I must say that when I've read the title I thought it was for creating your own shapes and/or animations.
I was looking for single beam ray cues (for external mirrors hitting) and a wavy effect animation.
Do you think this could be possible to have by the cheap china market ?
If yes....what device is best for you ?
Sorry from a poor newbie. :-)
I have seen a few different youtube tutorials on building your own laser effects with a laser pointer and a rotating mirror. The company Wicked Lasers makes some really good laser pointers (as well as the laser cube that I demonstrate here ruclips.net/video/Mk0bUIiCQqk/видео.html)
Would love to see what you come up with if you could post a link back here. Thanks!
@@LearnLizard thank you for the response - for sure one day I will if I reach the end of the project - I'm just checking the possibility or less : maybe too ambitious :(
Hi, great video! My question: can you program gobo's and a dmx laser whit the same dmx controller at the same time. I cant get it right. Or my gobo's work and not the laser, or the laser goes en not te gobos. If i program in another bank my laser programs its going but my gobos go in blackout mode. Whitout the gobos i can control the laser but in daisy chain my gobos dont work anymore. Or do i just need a second dmx controler for just the laser? My has also a digital display. Thanks
You can definitely use the same controller. The key is to have each light with its own unique dmx starting address and to make sure that none of the dmx channels overlap each other.
Hey Steve, any chance you're familiar with a Shinp CL-10RGB Single Laser? I just got one from a friend and I have no clue how to control it. It seems to be on random now, but on the back of the system there is a small equalizer looking section with 10 switches that slide up and down. Also there is a sensitivity dial that goes from min to max. I'm throwing my kids a new years party, hope you can help out, thsnks
Hi - The first 3 DIP switches on the back are the method for setting the functions of the laser (the rest are used for setting the DMX starting address if you are using a controller) For example if you put the first 3 switches to OFF (OOO) the laser will be in sound active mode, with the sensitivity dial controlling the microphone input.
(1OO) ON-OFF-OFF it will be in Auto Beam Mode
(11O) Auto Animation, and so on.
Appreciate you watching and sorry I missed the New Years Eve party!
@@LearnLizard Hey man, that's okay the random one it was on worked wonders, so I didn't bother touching it. Wow though I truly didn't think you'd have so much information on it, amazing! I'm gonna screen shot your comment for reference. Have a good one, Steve!
I would like to set up a show on my 16' garage door and was wondering if you could tell me the distance away from my garage door before it runs over the perimeter of the 16' X 7' size. I could conceal it in front of my palm tree but it is approx. 20 feet away and I think that is too far and the design would overlap onto my home. Can you give me distances for the 4 beam and 6 beam to fit a 16' X 7' rectangle?
Hi - I wish I had a better answer for this, but with this particular unit, the red laser projects really wide so you would have to be quite close to contain the entire image on the door, while the green and blue lasers are more focused and you would probably need to be about 20' back to have the patterns fill your space. I'm thinking the only way you could get the effect you want would be through trial and error. (sorry I'm not more help on this one)
Hey steve like your channel .you have help me through what to get and how to program it. But I wish you had this projector up before I bought one .I got mine last October 2019 didn't get 10 hours on mine and one of the red lasers went dim i mean real dim .so I crack it open to see if it was a easy fix. As soon as I took the lid off I saw how the laser was wired up . the laser was hanging by a thread so I solder back on, hoping that was it. Nope so I took some voltage reading from one laser to another found it was low on voltage. I had bought insurance for 9.00 ,it was coming from China. To bring this to a ending contact the seller he said it had no warranty other then it would work when I got it. Will the insurance didn't want to pay off they said should have a mfg. Warranty. This went back and forth till April 2020. Anyway trying to fill out the claim and getting them to here my story and say its a what , whats it do and so on. They finely got a check for full price .and I paid 107.00 I have 2 laser docks and love then ,and the one your showing is like the one I had. It looks cool in a dark basement with fog .and I would like to get the one they sell with the strobe on it. If you order on get insurance for 9.99 for 2 years it was money well spent. By the way the insurance company said they would try to fix it .I got a email back in 7 day .can not be fixed. That was no surprise I think there big into cell phone and cameras
Sorry about the long story .first every sending anything like this . And lucky steve get it .but not for steve would not been able run the light board .love there instruction. All clear G.M
I really appreciate you sharing your story because its good to hear about other peoples experiences. Thats a drag about those problems you had, but it sounds like you eventually got everything resolved. So far so good with my little laser and I am actually surprised at how good it looks with the hazer going.
similar story. got mine via Aliexpress from a shop I had bought loads of light from. Red went dark after just a week of use. I opened it and saw that the unit is replaceable. I told the seller the defect and sent him pictures/videos. About 6months later (covid delays) they sent me a replacement red laser unit and something that looks like a laser generator but built like a heat sink. I pulled the sockets, and reinserted the new units in. Red came back. All fixed. I have 4 of them
QUESTION: How do you mount this from the ceiling? is it easy to do? Does it come with tools for it.
It has a bracket that you could use to attach to a ceiling. I'm actually working on video right now all about hanging lights with a section on hanging lights from the ceiling. Stand by for that one and appreciate you watching!
@@LearnLizard THANK YOU YES! if you could make a video showing how to install it to a ceiling I would absolutely appreciate it along with hiding the cords etc.
Is it safe for eyes or is there a distance you should keep?
Hi- This laser would be VERY dangerous to your eyes if you looked at it, even if you were a long distance away. Stage lasers like this are much more powerful than simple laser pointers and can burn and damage your retina if only exposed for a brief moment so please be careful!!
Can you link too lasers to do the same
Scene?
Yes- In fact its really easy. If you daisy chain 2 lasers together (DMX "out" of 1st laser, to DMX "in" of second laser) and set both to the same DMX starting address, they will work in unison. Appreciate you watching!
How do you feel about Wireless Dmx systems and what would you recommend
it isnt possible to create new paterns? like the lasercube does
You can create variations on the existing patterns by adjusting the rotation speeds and pattern combinations, but they are basically set by the lenses the lasers pass through.
It mean to say sir you can dessign your owm pattern
Even though the patterns are fixed on the lens, by changing the combinations of rotation speeds and colors you can have some control over the final effect and definitely create different scenes for an effective show. Appreciate you watching!
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Can you do a Ma2 on pc with ma2 3d
I want to start doing some tutorials for PC based software, so maybe the MA2- except the hardware for it is pretty expensive
LearnLizard no ma2 on pc is free. Do a dot2 video it is like a easyer ma2
You should try QLC+ free software and you are able to do a lot of customization.
@@Hataloven Can you run a lighting rig with only the free software? I though you needed the interface...
@@landfors Thanks for that suggestion- I had always heard of QLC+ but didn't realize it ran on a mac as well as PC and that it had so many cool features. Definitely on my list to pursue.
What price sir
You can buy a similar laser (that actually has more features) for $85 here:
amzn.to/3gY2JLG
& XLR TERMINATOR :// ?? NECESSARY
I use a terminator when I put together a larger rig with more than 6 lights or so, (they are inexpensive so why not avoid problems) but quite honestly in most instances I've found that everything works fine without the termination.
No gobos on mine
QUESTION : MIC CABLE CAUSE | ?? .. RESISTANCE etc .. .. .. XLR TERMINATOR ABSENCE
FIRST TIME USE : LASER GVT LP 6 + DMX CONTROLLER with RDM protocol
& ERROR !! CONNECT >> DEVICE : S : 3 PIN XLR MICROPHONE CABLE >> + ACTIVATE RDM MODE in DMX CONTROLLER
RESULT : LASER : S : >> LIGHT COHERENT UN FOCUS : GREEN LIGHT RE : ACTIVE CRACK
MAYBE : OTHER ~ PROBLEM nuance : S :
Its been my experience that with simple setups (6 lights or less) Mic cables have worked just fine and no terminator needed. I've never used RDM as neither my fixtures or console have that capability so I don't know if that could be causing issues. Sorry, I wish I could be more help. Appreciate you watching...
Now we know…
Hope it helped and appreciate you watching...
?? HOW : OPTIMAL : ARRANGE CHAIN ORDER >>>> TYPE : S : DEVICE : S :
PRIMARY SECONDARY THIRDARY ... ... etc
I don't believe it matters what the order you put your lights in when daisy chaining together. I have always used the physical position of the fixtures on my truss to determine the order of my cables and never had any issues. Thanks for watching.