Bounce mirrors

Hello folks, well I finally broke down and picked up a pair of bounce mirrors. I picked up a set from a seller on ebay that seems to manufacture them I would guess. I was surprised by the quality. Very nice little unit and great for my office, I'm probably going to get about another 15 of them!>:) The seller is http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gifvette4jja and here is a link to one of his auctions: http://cgi.ebay.com/Stage-Laser-Boun...QQcmdZViewItem

I'd include photos of the actual bounce mirror, but thats not as fun as these:

Very NICE!!! I bought some mirrors from him a while ago. Still got plenty of them :) But I was thinking about building something like that with his 5x5 6x6 or 8x8" mirrors. I just haven't made up my mind yet.

wow awesome.

im gona have a go at making some bounce mirrors, ive made a scanner im sure making some bounce mirrors cant be hard ;)

Youuuuu suck... :p Cause I want on... some... :D I like the way you have them on the tracklight strip. http://www.photonlexicon.com/forums/...ons/icon14.gif That is a hefty price jump from the 2 inch to anything bigger. :rolleyes: Nice find though. :cool:

hehe! I just wire tied the two up to the track for now, later I will mount them a different way, especially if I get more. Speaking of which, if you want some, I was thinking about getting 15 of them. I can get 20 at $10 a pop, maybe less if I get more. Someone want to do a group buy thing? Anyone else interested? I'll email him and see if we can get them for less than that.

If we can get them for less than $10 each and reasonable shipping, I would be in for at least four and possibly 8.

Yea, I'd be down for a group buy. Speaking of group buys... mliptack, did you make a thread about those "white light" goggles? I'd like to see more info on those... :cool:

Allthat, check the PBS group buy they're in there. There is the link in my signature to that thread. Theres a bunch of info dispersed throughout the thread. If you have any particular answers you're looking for PM me.

-Max

Ok guys, got a response about a group buy. Though he did offer a better price, I just don't think it would be worth organizing any kind group buy for them. Oh well! Really though, I think the price for them is pretty good to begin with. Especially if you buy 10.

I would just like to say that I had an interest in these so I checked the seller again - and he didn't have any up. So I wrote a message to him, he immediately posted a new batch of 50 of them up. With a 10 for the price of 6 deal.

Just an FYI when I checked out the shipping was going to be $40 so I offered the original 6.80 and he instead charged me 8.95

So I just got 10 of these mounts for just about 11 bucks a piece.

Thanks for posting - just ordered a batch myself! :)

Glad I could help out! I'll post pictures etc. when I get them :D

you could rip the mirror head from one of those old pattern projectors and make up a dmx controllable variable angle bounce mirror...

just a idea to throw out there :)

COOL idea, which leads me to another one:

Use some cheap radio control model servos and one of these

http://home.att.net/~northlightsyste...2toRCservo.htm

to create a whole effects box of DMX-controlled variable-angle bounce mirrors :cool:

Don't expect to hit another bounce mirror after it - or at least with much accuracy. The sensors on stuff like that get you very close to where you want to be but its not as precise as a static mirror.

There are the moving head laser projectors which seem like an incredible product (I have never seen one in person) however, I would like to know how much more is invested into safety interlocks. I would imagine it would be hard to variance something like that. I do a lot of maintenance and repair work on moving head lighting fixtures. Its not uncommon to have one that is acting erratically due to a dirty or damaged sensor, slipping belt, bad control cable or broken motor.

-Max

I'll have a spectrophotometer adsorption scan of the guy's mirror stock in a few days. A sample piece of the overcoated AL ones held up to 30 minutes of 6 watts of doubled yag I was adjusting on a service call, with marginal blooming and no visual damage to the coating when power was increased to 10 watts for 2 minutes. (~ 20 khz rep rate, ~ 7nS pulse, 2mm diameter) NOT bad for a low cost coating, I'd say there is 5-10% loss to adsorption, guessing. Ill have a real measurement on Monday.

Steve Roberts

[QUOTE=mliptack;47722]Don't expect to hit another bounce mirror after it - or at least with much accuracy. The sensors on stuff like that get you very close to where you want to be but its not as precise as a static mirror.

This would be much better then servos, Eaton doesnt make crap. I doubt I would use it in a varianced show, but for a toy, the price is right

http://www.goldmine-elec-products.co...?number=G16067

Steve Roberts

Steve - its interesting that you linked to that. I was thinking instead of ripping apart a DMX operated lighting fixture - you could just go to the junk yard and rip off an automatic mirror like that.

Just got 2 test mirrors for this guy. Great mirrors. But looks like USPS doesn't use turtles anymore. Just heard that their fired all their turtle delivery stuff and hired a bunch of snails. Actually I just designed a new USPS logo. If anybody from USPS would be interested it's for sale!

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Just got 2 test mirrors for this guy. Great mirrors. But looks like USPS doesn't use turtles anymore. Just heard that their fired all their turtle delivery stuff and hired a bunch of snails. Actually I just designed a new USPS logo. If anybody from USPS would be interested it's for sale!

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I see your new logo is perfect for a autotrace program. Do I see a new commecial in laser coming for the US SNAIL, ?

which is usually faster then UPS these days.

Steve

Opps I just checked the box and It's not a USPS at all. It was shipped on 23rd. Order was placed on 14. I was thinking of 15th to now. So USPS is not that bad after all!.

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Originally Posted by Dr Laser

Opps I just checked the box and It's not a USPS at all. It was shipped on 23rd. Order was placed on 14. I was thinking of 15th to now. So USPS is not that bad after all!.

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:confused: A week to ship... :eek:

Maybe he had to make them first. But after all I like those mirrors. Will test them tomorrow to see if I need a bigger ones.