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[QUOTE="AAH, post: 12343, member: 543"] If most of your lights are 24vdc then I'd be very tempted to just forsake your mains rated ropes at the moment. Having both AC and DC controllers complicates things. If you're willing to go with just DC then I'd go with something like the Ray Wu 27ch DC board [url=http://www.aliexpress.com/fm-store/701799/209915969-378111925/Easy-DMX-LED-controller-dmx-decoder-driver.html]http://www.aliexpress.com/fm-store/701799/209915969-378111925/Easy-DMX-LED-controller-dmx-decoder-driver.html [/url]. I'm not sure if David_AVD sells stuff to the UK or not but he has both 24 and 48 channel dmx dimmers that are also suitable. What you are going to need to synch lights is. 1) PC (pretty safe to say you've got 1) 2) Dimmer pcb (plenty of options from LOR down to the 3 channel dmx boards Ray Wu sells) 3) Adaptor. This depends on whether you go dmx or lor. The lor usb-485 dongle can do both but it would require an adaptor cable to swap pins to suit dmx unless it's used with a lor controller. 4) 24VDC power supply. These vary from about $20 for a 350W from Ray Wu to a couple hundred dollars for a top quality Meanwell branded supply. I've had no issue with my cheap and nasties this year but i did grab a couple extras just in case. 5) Cat 5 cable to run from adaptor to dimmer pcb 6) Synching software. LOR, LSP and Vixen are the 3 main choices. LOR has a big market share as it's where a lot of people first start synching. LSP is used a lot for the top end multi-thousand channel displays especially where there are lots of pixels. Vixen is free. I personally use and recommend the LOR as it's pretty easy to use compared to the other 2 and version 3 now has a built in auto sequencer if you get the superstar addon. A rough synchronised sequence can be hashed up in 30s (once channels and visualiser plan is done). See [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cFUX2Anq1o#]Autosequencing without CCRs[/url] to see how easy it is. 7) An amplifier for belting out the tunes out at street level and/or an fm transmitter. Both of these plug into your speaker output on the pc. If you have a fm transmitter then you'll have to put some sort of "tune to 123.4 FM" up so that people know where to listen. [/QUOTE]
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