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wirekat
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 Posted: Friday March 14th, 2008 03:43 am
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ChuckHutchings wrote: wirekat wrote: I told them to label them "light bulbs" but that may have been lost in the translation.

I can hear it now...

"Tank you velly much, Mr. Kevin! We get you thousands of white bulls in shipping container right away! Not to worry about customs!"

We'll be lucky if we all don't serve time for this! ;)

 


That's OK Chuck I told them you were my agent for lite bulls!

 

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 Posted: Friday March 14th, 2008 01:20 pm
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I can hardly wait for them to come in ..I guess I have to buy that new controller for them now :]



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Hey yall, are you planning on doing another group buy on these M16's anytime soon?  Unfortunately, I didn't see the string for the group buy until today.  I was looking around on the internet and you can't beat these prices.  Heck, you can't afford to do it at some of the prices out there. 

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Now that the MR16s are due in shortly, I need to get a power supply for them.  Can't remember, are these AC or DC?  Old age setting in!



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 Posted: Friday March 14th, 2008 03:23 pm
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circus4u wrote: Now that the MR16s are due in shortly, I need to get a power supply for them.  Can't remember, are these AC or DC?  Old age setting in!

They will work on both AC and DC. Most folks are using an old PC power supply.
You can get those from eBay or allelectronics.com.

If you plan on controlling them with LOR or Dlight then use their DC controller
board and a PC power supply.

Figure how big a PS you need my multiplying .167 amps (at 12 volts) times how
many MR16's you have.

http://www.christmasinkent.com/HowTo.htm

 



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 Posted: Friday March 14th, 2008 03:25 pm
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Randaling wrote: Hey yall, are you planning on doing another group buy on these M16's anytime soon?  Unfortunately, I didn't see the string for the group buy until today.  I was looking around on the internet and you can't beat these prices.  Heck, you can't afford to do it at some of the prices out there. 

Ryan


I will probably have more but I will be selling them on my site for about the same
price.

 



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 Posted: Monday March 17th, 2008 09:28 pm
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They're here!

I will start shipping this week. I want to pull samples and test to be sure these will dim as well as the first batch.

 

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That's great Kevin. How will you notify us about payment due and how to get it to you?

Tim



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Talk about Happy St. Patty's Day!!! :)



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wirekat
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 Posted: Monday March 17th, 2008 10:24 pm
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timdks wrote: That's great Kevin. How will you notify us about payment due and how to get it to you?

Tim


Yep.

Once I ship I will know those charges and be able to send you an invoice.

You can pay with PayPal (I will add PP charges) or you can mail me a check.

Kevin



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"That was easy!"

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 Posted: Wednesday March 19th, 2008 06:35 pm
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OK folks.

Don't know if you read the other thread so here goes. The Easy folks in China sent us the same MM16's as GBII. These are ones that have trouble dimming. The solution is to use a resister.
Here's the video of red and green MR16's with and without the resister.

http://www.christmasinkent.com/Videos.htm

You might have to turn up the volume to hear my ramblings but in a nut shell:

Maybe it's just me but the MR16 with the resister looked brighter on my ceiling
than the one without. You decide.

If you plan on dimming these you will need to put a 22 ohm resister in series with
one the leads of the MR16. The dimming will be different than with your other
lights in your show. They dim best from zero to about 50%. After 50% there is
little noticeable difference. I dealt with this in last years show by just changing the
range of dimming for the MR16 vs the other type lights in you show. This should be
easy with LORII as their interface now allows multiple dimming ranges.

I am including one resister for every MR16 so you should be good to go once you
receive your order. Of course you'll need a power supply and controller and some
sort of enclosure and some sort of cover for the MR16's since they are not
weather proof. Easy as they say....



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Thankyou for all the hard work and help Kevin.

All the information will be extremely helpful!   :)

Leon
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Got mine today! All arrived safe and sound. What a deal and GREAT experience.

Thanks again Kevin
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 Posted: Thursday April 3rd, 2008 09:18 am
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Kevin,

Mine arrived the other day and the results of the pre testing I have done so far is WOW.  Thanks again for making this group buy happen.

Tony



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Just curious Tony, I'm not that far along. Did your testing use an AC or DC power supply? I know Kevin said we could use either. Has anyone compared to see if one gives better results than the other?

 

Thanks

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WWNF911 wrote: Just curious Tony, I'm not that far along. Did your testing use an AC or DC power supply? I know Kevin said we could use either. Has anyone compared to see if one gives better results than the other?

 

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Leon

I think someone said that you have to use DC if you want to fade them using LOR.



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circus4u wrote: WWNF911 wrote: Just curious Tony, I'm not that far along. Did your testing use an AC or DC power supply? I know Kevin said we could use either. Has anyone compared to see if one gives better results than the other?

 

Thanks

Leon

I think someone said that you have to use DC if you want to fade them using LOR.
 

That is correct. You would need a DC power suplly to use either LOR's or L-Dight's
DC board.


 



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Good news, I recd a notice that PO has a box for me
Not sure if that is my order, I'll check tomorrow
Thanks also for the work on this GB



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Mine arrived yesterday and I played with a few out in the garage last night. Let me just say thanks again and WOW!!! Let the fun begin...
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