I’m trying to duplicate the effects of "Lightning strikes units" in a budget. If you don't know what that is cool. But if you have watched any David lynch films and the actor is bathed in a flashing strobey light that is controlled this is them. A simple strobe light pulses to fast and is no good. The before mentioned LS units cost way too much to rent for an artist of my paltry means. It’s a little off topic but I have seen some wacky stuff for cars perhaps that’s a way to go? Any help thanks
Duane
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Re: Cheap controled strobe lights?
Mon, April 21, 2008 - 4:17 PMYou might consider building fire alarm strobes. They are 12 volt dc and some can be controlled for rate of flash or to have them all flash in sync as is required by ADA.
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Re: Cheap controled strobe lights?
Thu, May 29, 2008 - 12:06 AMYou could collect several disposable flash cameras. I believe they're wired such that you could connect them all to a common ground and fire them with something like a nail board. CAREFULLY - even a just-flashed camera strobe with the battery removed retains enough charge on its capacitor to give you a nasty shock. (You could do something fancier with opto-isolators and micro-processor controlled sequencing of the flashes, but the nail-board would be close to "free"...) -
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Re: Cheap controled strobe lights?
Mon, June 2, 2008 - 11:16 AMwww.sciplus.com/search.cfm
This is an interesting device,you can use it to make any lamp a strobe-you could plug several conventional lights in,then vary the pulse length. -
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Ok,American Science and Surplus................
Mon, June 2, 2008 - 11:20 AMThe link didn't work-go there,search for strobe,there is a "EVery lamp a Strobe",look at that thing,too cool-I got one,seems to work ok.
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