LED lighting.

[Chienmortbb]

On 21/09/2025 at 16:43, Chienmortbb said:

The remote had a spare battery and that also did not work.

 

I connected the light to my DMX controller and it works fine. I had to re-learn DMX too, as I had forgotten that the addresses go up in 16s. 

Doh. I was complaining about the lack of a DMX on the wall washer. The clue is RGB. Once you have the address set, the faders 1,2 and 3 on the controller control the Red Green and Blue LEDs. Doh

[Stub Mandrel]

26 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said:

Doh. I was complaining about the lack of a DMX on the wall washer. The clue is RGB. Once you have the address set, the faders 1,2 and 3 on the controller control the Red Green and Blue LEDs. Doh

 

It's a shame they don't standardise on the first five channels of every light being overall brightness/r/g/b/w.

[TimR]

I mentioned this in the DMX thread.

 

Although I have 4 par cans that are 4 chanel so I can run all 4 off two pages of faders by setting adresses to 1, 5, 9 and 13.

 

My mini spots are 5 chanel? Go Figure. To keep the desk simple I program 1, 9, 1, 9. Losing about 12 channels, but I don't have hundreds of fixtures and multiple universes. 

 

This is where software comes in handy. 

 

Useful to have a cheat sheet printed referencing each page, fixture and what chanels you're using. In case you want to alter lights on the fly instead of using programmed scenes. Essential when programming anyway. 

Edited Saturday at 15:36 by TimR

[TimR]

1 hour ago, Al Krow said:

I've always really liked these guys' lighting set up for a 3/4 piece band:

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR7JilxjEMB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

The static wash they use at every gig looks good. 

[Stub Mandrel]

54 minutes ago, TimR said:

I mentioned this in the DMX thread.

 

Although I have 4 par cans that are 4 chanel so I can run all 4 off two pages of faders by setting adresses to 1, 5, 9 and 13.

 

My mini spots are 5 chanel? Go Figure. To keep the desk simple I program 1, 9, 1, 9. Losing about 12 channels, but I don't have hundreds of fixtures and multiple universes. 

 

This is where software comes in handy. 

 

Useful to have a cheat sheet printed referencing each page, fixture and what chanels you're using. In case you want to alter lights on the fly instead of using programmed scenes. Essential when programming anyway. 

 

I figured out my PARS will be happy with 1,9,17,25 etc. But means page switching when programming them.

[Chienmortbb]

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

I figured out my PARS will be happy with 1,9,17,25 etc. But means page switching when programming them.

What controller or Software are you using?

[Stub Mandrel]

4 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said:

What controller or Software are you using?

 

Cheap generic much like this:

 

 

Page 2 of each short address can be used to control a fixture with a long address 8 higher than the fixture on page 1 (if they both use 8 bytes or fewer).

 

Edited Saturday at 17:37 by Stub Mandrel

[Chienmortbb]

25 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Cheap generic much like this:

 

 

Page 2 of each short address can be used to control a fixture with a long address 8 higher than the fixture on page 1 (if they both use 8 bytes or fewer).

 

This controller is sold with slight cosmetic variation by many vendors, as well as being sold as an IEM by various companies, most notably Chauvet Obey 40. In fact, I have just downloaded the Chauvet Obey 40 Manual and used it to programme mine. . I bought mine for about £20 S/H. 

[Stub Mandrel]

5 hours ago, Chienmortbb said:

This controller is sold with slight cosmetic variation by many vendors, as well as being sold as an IEM by various companies, most notably Chauvet Obey 40. In fact, I have just downloaded the Chauvet Obey 40 Manual and used it to programme mine. . I bought mine for about £20 S/H. 

 

More variations than you can shake a stick at on Temu. Mine was about £19.

[TimR]

Anyone knkw where I can get these cheaper than £20? One at £20 is fine but think 3 is starting to stretch my budget.

 

https://amzn.eu/d/5YMSWkE

4way IEC splitter. 

[Phil Starr]

2 hours ago, TimR said:

Anyone knkw where I can get these cheaper than £20? One at £20 is fine but think 3 is starting to stretch my budget.

 

https://amzn.eu/d/5YMSWkE

4way IEC splitter. 

CPC Farnell? V https://cpc.farnell.com/c/splitters/iec-splitters

 

Studiospares used to be good for this sort of stuff before the takeover, they used to do a sort of IEC daisy chain thing. Terralec are good for leads but nothing very useful listed there as far as I could see at the moment.

[Rosie C]

On 02/12/2025 at 06:38, gazhowe said:

Here's a short video of one of the t-bars in my new lighting setup when I was first testing the lights in my garage. Those four lights cost approx £150 in total (excluding t- bar, power and DMX cables).
 

One par is permanently set to white light to illuminate the guitarist while the other provides a stage wash. The two moving heads provide visual interest. The pars can be set up like that using their internal features however DMX control is needed to make the moving heads move slowly and keep them pointed at the band. 
 

 

 

All that for £150?!  Incredible. I remember when the original Martin moving head lamps came out and they were as much as a car EACH.

 

We only have 4 PAR type LED lamps, which have spent the last couple of years fixed to the ceiling of our practice space, but we recently brought them down ready for moving house and fitted them to a T-bar. They've been setup at one in built-in mode, with the other three following it. I didn't like it as a lot of the colours are cold - a bluish white, pale blue, cyan, lavender etc. (as seen in the photo actually).  But I've just ordered one of those £20 DMX controllers from eBay and I'm planning to set up a few scenes with deep, warm colours.

 

 

 

 

[gazhowe]

1 hour ago, Rosie C said:

 

All that for £150?!  Incredible. I remember when the original Martin moving head lamps came out and they were as much as a car EACH.

 

We only have 4 PAR type LED lamps, which have spent the last couple of years fixed to the ceiling of our practice space, but we recently brought them down ready for moving house and fitted them to a T-bar. They've been setup at one in built-in mode, with the other three following it. I didn't like it as a lot of the colours are cold - a bluish white, pale blue, cyan, lavender etc. (as seen in the photo actually).  But I've just ordered one of those £20 DMX controllers from eBay and I'm planning to set up a few scenes with deep, warm colours.

 

 

 

 

It's incredible how cheap the lights from Temu and AliExpress are, although you need to be careful as some ads can be misleading.
As an example, you can pick up four par lights for less than £90 but I've seen another ad where that is the price for one of these pars!

Edited 18 minutes ago by gazhowe
Typo

[Chienmortbb]

8 minutes ago, gazhowe said:

It's incredible how cheap the lights from Temu and AliExpress are, although you need to be careful as some ads can be misleading.
As an example, you can pick up four par lights for less than £90 but I've seen another ad where that is the price for one of these pars!

I paid about that price from a UK supplier.