Thread: I will show you mine if you show me yours.

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No that’s not what I am talking about. What I am referring to is my Halloween prop control center. I live in the Arizona desert and we do not have lawns in our front yards. What we do have is a lot of rocks and very hard dirt.

That makes for some very difficult Halloween setup. So I have been working on this setup for a number of months.

The first picture show the control box without doors, you can see a number of shelf with different components. Each following pic moves down the inside of the control box.

Things of interest.

Keyboard with six switches above.
Two computers with KVM switch.
Six K74 boards
Six plugs on the outside / Wiring to the plugs outside
Orange wire below the plug, this will plug into a 220V line that will be split into two 110V circuits.
Outer wrap for power lines.
Black (Snake) (Thanks Randy for the name)) Prop power line.
The back of the box without doors.

More to come.

Thx PMT

Rest of the pics.

PMT

Now that is a brilliant idea. Looks like you just solved your set up problem. Very nice and portable and well laid out and organized. A haunter will always find a way to haunt.

Nice, but I HAVE to ask what some people have against EMBEDDING pics? Clicking and back-paging is somewhat annoying when many pics are involved....

Ok, sorry about the rant, it's a peeve of mine. I apologize.I must say I really like the uncasing of the computer mother boards!

Ok, here's a pic of my control console in the making.

Dr. I would be happy to embed the pic’s if I knew how. So if you would share how to do that I will start doing it because the other way is a pain in the A**.

Anyway in your pic’s you show your setup that I think controls your Skull prop. If you would please explain how that works it would be very very helpful to me in the build of my control center.

What is what and how you wired it.

Thx PMT

nice setup, I need to do something like that one of these days.
on the embedding, I found if you put pic's in your albums, it gives you a embed code, it's fine until you fill up the album and have to start deleting pix I guess. I think you could get a photobucket account too, I just haven't done it yet myself.

PropMaster-
This looks great, but what's it used for? What are you controlling with all of it?
Thanks!

Originally Posted by Specter

PropMaster-
This looks great, but what's it used for? What are you controlling with all of it?
Thanks!

What I will be able to control as it sets right now is 48 different circuits. This can be anything from lighting; pop up’s & ground breakers. All run on VSA program networked between the two computers.

One of the computers has an optical out connection on the sound card that runs into the sound system.

Yet to be added will cover a three-axis skull.

All of the design revolves around transport of the system and setup.

I would very much like to see how the rest of you handle your setup, so please post some of the things that you have done and what you would have changed.

Thx PMT

Originally Posted by propmastertucson

Dr. I would be happy to embed the pic’s if I knew how. So if you would share how to do that I will start doing it because the other way is a pain in the A**.

Anyway in your pic’s you show your setup that I think controls your Skull prop. If you would please explain how that works it would be very very helpful to me in the build of my control center.

What is what and how you wired it.

Thx PMT

It's easy to embed, just use the [IMG] URL HERE [/IMG] tags on either side of your URL. Clicking on the little icon of the sun over the mountains at the top of the reply window allows you to simply paste you URL and the IMG tags will fill automatically.

My consol simply holds my computers and so far just one external power supply. I use the supply to power the servos, and VSA to run the skulls. It's a work in progress that I have been putting off in order to fill skull orders.

Dr. A little more on your skull setup would be nice.

PMT