mclarenamerican Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 Do you have one of these - do you know someone who does?!? Can anyone point me in the direction of a manual for this strobe or even tell me who makes it? Or also could anyone tell me how to address the thing and what the 2 control channels are? It would be most appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokm Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 I believe the Vaporizer Strobe 1500w, is made by Zoom Manufacturing.. used to be Source. I've had a quick look for a manual but couldn't find one. Though I don't know why you'd need one, its not very complex, 2 channels, no magic special functions.. Dip switch 10 turns on or off the sound to sh!te ability (you need it off if you want it to respond to DMX) Ch1 - Dimmer Ch2 - flash rate HTH. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclarenamerican Posted December 9, 2006 Author Share Posted December 9, 2006 Thanks for the reply! Is the addressing switches on the side just standard binary as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokm Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Yep, the usual 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256... etc. Though as I said, dip 10 controls weather its running from DMX or sound to light. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryson Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Dip 10 controls the Weather? That's a pretty good feature. Snow, please! :)(And they say spelling doesn't matter....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk52rob Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Ahh, now this is where you are all wrong! :) The strobe does have special features! We found some whilst testing a bespoke DMX program my colleague made! You have ramp up, ramp down, blinder low intensity and blinder full intensity. I can't find the high intensity blinder mode though, I would try using the program again but it would mean purchasing a DIY £60 USB-DMX device from Maplin! You can find a manual here, it's not the Vaporizer but the control board is the same :biggrin: DMX Ch1 = RateDMX Ch2 = Intensity HTH! Regards, Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokm Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 Ahh, now this is where you are all wrong! :) The strobe does have special features! We found some whilst testing a bespoke DMX program my colleague made! You have ramp up, ramp down, blinder low intensity and blinder full intensity. I can't find the high intensity blinder mode though, I would try using the program again but it would mean purchasing a DIY £60 USB-DMX device from Maplin!Oops, forgot about the blinder function. Thing is, its not like the blinder mode that you get from a martin atomic strobe.. It ramps up (with a fair amount of unhealthly sounding buzzing from the unit!) and then goes out. Used the units on a few desks, all did the same thing, so don't think I was missing some magic way of keeping them on.. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayselway Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Hey all, Has anybody had troubles with these units on DMX chains? I have just done an install with 2 of them in the chain, and every now and then one of them will flash once, randomly, and then sit there again. Also, other bits of the rig do strange things when they are in the chain, such as mirror move around oddly, shutters go random - basically the data seems to break when they are in. Do they have a setting for master and slave when in sound to light mode or anything like that? Or am I having a slow day and missing something obvious? btw - all leads tested and checked, and rig is fine with them bypassed on the chain. Ta Jay :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokm Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Do they have a setting for master and slave when in sound to light mode or anything like that?No, they have a sound to light function though, but to the best of my knowledge, they don't output that S2L to other units to sync together, such as other DJ products. basically the data seems to break when they are in.Sounds like one (or both) of the units DMX cards is corrupting the data or something. Does it do it with both, or have you tried just bypassing one, trying the rig, then bypassing the other strobe? HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayselway Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 I've got a little further with it - one strobe seems to be the culprit - in that, the problems only arise when it is in the chain. The other one was in and working as expected last night, so I'll be swapping it out for a spare sometime soon. Thanks all :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisBogg Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Hi Guys hope someone can help me. I have one of these source vaporizers and I find them quite good. Looking at the zoom site they dont do them anymore and Im looking for another to match the unit I have. I would need the unit to be the same but badged different as I want the flash rate and duration to be the same and most importantly the ramp up blinder function. So my question is this What other Chinese built 1500w strobes have this feature? and the dip switch 10 thing for DMX (as this would be a good clue as to if its the same unit etc) Thanks in advance Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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