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This will only be my 2nd year with the light show, but I would like to add something more than just the lights turning on for opening night this year. I was thinking about having part of the song with fog (but I don't know how to control it with LOR), and having some fireworks go off when the lights turn on. Some problems though:
I live in Ohio and in my area, they are pretty strict about fireworks, I can only use ground stuff like fountains and smoke.
If I use fireworks, I don't know which to use because I can't find any that are consistent enough for synchronization.
The only ones I have seen that I have considered (and that are legal in Ohio), are the ones I saw in Richard Faucher's display on the LOR website. Does anyone know what he used? They seemed to be very precisely timed.
Also, does anyone know how to control one of those fog machines for Halloween, using LOR. From what I read on some other PC posts, I think it is either a 12 or 24 v switch on it, I don't remember. And how can you be sure the fog comes on at the right time, and the machine doesn't instead take one of those breaks.
LOR is now selling a "DMX" controller so provided you invested in a fog machine/snow machine that is DMX, you will now be able to controll them via LOR. The DMX controller isn't cheap but the good news is you will only need one to controll a large number of DMX units, so long as they are daisey chained.
CrazyChristmas314 wrote: I was thinking about having part of the song with fog (but I don't know how to control it with LOR),
Also, does anyone know how to control one of those fog machines for Halloween, using LOR. From what I read on some other PC posts, I think it is either a 12 or 24 v switch on it, I don't remember. And how can you be sure the fog comes on at the right time, and the machine doesn't instead take one of those breaks.
Hi,
If the fog machine you are talking about is one of the kind with a light on the top and a toggle button on the bottom (Like the ones from Wal-Mart) then all you have to do is get a 12 volt relay, 12 volt power supply (Wall Wart) and a power jack. You then wire the relay in to the remote and attach the power jack then all you have to do is plug the power supply into a LOR channel. There is no way that I have found yet to make sure the machine does not take a warm up break. If this is the kind of fog machine you are talking about and want, Pictures, part numbers ect. just PM me.
