dominguesg Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Hello people! Happy new year to all! For 2013's Christmas, I was thinking to use one of lightorama's 12vdc board, to fire gerbs, and gerbs only. Any ideas!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james campbell Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 first off what the heck is a gerb. and secondly It is not a safe practice to use lor equipment for fireworks. The triacs or mosfets in the dc board are just unpredictable. You will have no way to insure to fireworks will not misfire. yes it would probably work but I would not do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJ Hvasta Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 'think he meant squibs.. the term is squibs, that light off fuses, as in the Estes rocket motors.. tho, OP being from Brazil, they may have their own terms below the Eq. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominguesg Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 This is a gerb.I was thinking to use this board: http://store.lightorama.com/cmdedcca2.htmlWhat you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightORamaDan Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Hello, Because LOR controllers do not have the fail safe interfaces that are used with electronic control of pyrotechnics we do not recommend their use controlling such devices. Best regardsDanLight O Rama, inc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominguesg Posted January 22, 2013 Author Share Posted January 22, 2013 Okay, but which system could I use to sincronyze fireworks to my Christmas display? Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitusCarnathan Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I know very little in the Pyro Tech world so if anyone wants to correct this go ahead.I am not sure if this will work or not. On the tv show pyros, I believe that company used fireone http://www.fireone.com/index.htmI know they did firework shows synced to music, I am not sure exactly how they did it, I think it works like this.1 audio channel (eg. left) would be your music which you would hook to your speaker and the other (eg. right) would have a timecode signal that would feed to the firework controller.The software they use to program it puts the time code into the audio file so the system know when to fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james campbell Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I know very little in the Pyro Tech world so if anyone wants to correct this go ahead.I am not sure if this will work or not. On the tv show pyros, I believe that company used fireone http://www.fireone.com/index.htmI know they did firework shows synced to music, I am not sure exactly how they did it, I think it works like this.1 audio channel (eg. left) would be your music which you would hook to your speaker and the other (eg. right) would have a timecode signal that would feed to the firework controller.The software they use to program it puts the time code into the audio file so the system know when to fire.yikes a hobbie more expensive than ours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Benedict Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 This subject has come up before and the dialog describing the commercial pyro controllers is somewhere on this forum.Check here: http://forums.lightorama.com/index.php?/topic/21447-lor-and-fireworks-lol/or here: http://forums.lightorama.com/index.php?/forum/41-my-4th-of-july-show/For more searches on Google, use "site:forums.lightorama.com pyro" as a search argument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magish01 Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 As Dan stated in #5 above. No safety for interfaces for pre ignitions. I use pyro digital systems when doing the big shows. Have safety and test modes. Costly, but not being in full control of when you launch your aerial shells will cost you more, along with possibly hurting one of your spectators. Not worth the chances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Parker Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 And their hobby is one and done, we can at least watch ours for a month or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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