just puller out my old laser image projector out after ten years.....

[inova20]

hi to all and thanks for all the posts. i was a touring laser tech from 1990 to 2002 using a 25 watt full color large frame projcetor.ran more water hose then a fireman and did some crazy 3ph 480 volt hooks ups .but still hear to tell the stores....got my first fda var back in 95 then went on a tear of the world blazing lasers all over the world.then in 2002 lasers took a back seat in the show world.so as my work started to slow i did more repair work then shows.but my love for the laser never left me.then got marred in 2003...moved then had 2 boys now 6&8.never selling any of my laser stuff thinking mabe i well do some more shows.......but new job flying rc helis and my race car my laser sys took a back seat..my sys is a laser image cs over under 24 beem pos rail assy+fiber feed+2 cambridge 6800hp neos pcaom color control. argon kyrpton sys american 909 lasers.they were are sponser back then.but my touring sys used 2 i20 inovas argon 25watt +i100 kyrpton 5 watt.3ph 480 ....what a pain in the butt for setups ...but lots of power loose 6 watts in the pcaom no problem.but this is now cant start running water lines all over my house.thats what my wife tells mewell 2 weeks ago my son sead when are you going to make that laser thing in that big box work. my sons want to see a laser show......this is so cool so me and my sons started pull out all the hardwhere.man cant even think how much i spent back then but i would loose money to do a kick ass show over makeing a buck on a shit show...so spent all my money on parts ..back then having laser image open there doors to me was a eye opener...they had the best shows and when i left there studio i allways wanted to bring the laser show to the stage.and they allways did there best to show me all there new projectors.thanks mitch hartman and ivon dryer hope i spelled it right.....now back to my sons laser show .tried to fire up my old 486 computer but the x29-2 softwhere key lost is program well thats 6000 down the pot.so found my old adat and some show tapes.but still no laser.so got on ebay bought 1 watt dpss green one 1watt blue 1 500mw red did some blending and bam im backbut still no sys control....so on ebay bought I show. it took me 4 hrs to hate it that i lost hope in ever beeing able to program a new show or running my beem rail assy...so set my hole sys up getting 2watts out the scanners. then ran the adat.well the first show i did was a old demo for some new softwhere comming out .that was pangolin......my kids just filpped.well bought pangolin qs.never looking back.man this softwhere blows x29 away.for 600 bucks....cant beet that..when my kids went to sleep i went down to the shop to play and the bug hit me hard .need to start having some fun ..so on this site now im hooked .need to sell some old laser stuff to play more but man i missed the good old beem.so thanks to all for keeping up all the hardwork .it makes me smile to see people still blazing lasers . and thanks to ivon of laser images for my first laser show back in 1978 at the hayden in new york city...greg rapuano former owner new age laser inc .......

[Galvonaut]

Hi Inova

Welcome to PL! We are all addicts here, so you are in great company

Keith

[Jem]

Hi, and welcome to PL, you're amongst friends here

What a great background and a fantastic journey. The good thing is that it's brought you here. Looking forward to hearing more as time progresses

Take care

Jem

[inova20]

thanks for the comeback jem hope i can tell some of you what it was like for us in the old day of being a laser tech back in the day of the ion laser.and hope to learn more on the new stuff. no more pcaoms ....1watt full color laser 400 bucks .my first argon was a american laser 909 water cooled .it cost me like 10000 dollars back in 1992.

[Jem]

There's quite a few 'Old Skool' ion members here. I'm assuming that you are in the USA, for starters there's DSLI_Jon (Jon), Laserman532 (Pat) etc. In the UK we've got Laserhobbit (Steve) and a fair few others, sadly names elude me as it's 3:00am in the morning here and I should be sleeping. In fact some of the names you've already mentioned are members here. I expect they'll crawl out of the woodwork eventually

Taking a couple of minutes to fill out the location in your profile would be good.

[Bradfo69]

Welcome to PL! You've stumbled on the Mecca of laser geeks and a lot of very talented people that would love to see and help you get that Laser Image CS back up to it's glory. Don't know where on this rock you reside but, I can assure you that there is a LEM (Laser Enthusiast Meeting) probably somewhere close that would welcome you with open arms. I can only hope you're in the southeast United States. You'll learn why soon enough. Things have certainly advanced and the cost of entry, while still high is nothing compared to those days. The mere fact that you can hold a few watts in your hand that is air cooled and runs on 120v power should be culture shock enough. Still a bunch of gassers though... there is a passion about them even with all the headaches and backaches.

It's still a wild ride!

[inova20]

hi bradfo69 .im out of new jersey usa .man i can remember meeting ivon at laser images for the first time back in 1993 .to me it was like meeting the biggest star in the world back then. i was 26 at the time .then mitch hartman brought me in there show room and thats when i seen giant leaps duel adat laser show.man all i could say was holy shit....then he showed me my first cs projector.it was a peace of laser artwork...up till then it was all open table optics.but this was a true laser projector 1 watt purelight laser .my first time seeing a pcaom neos running.then they were the kinds of scan glass and luma wheels.man that day changed my life.went there to rent a buck and boost transformer to run one of are large frame lasers for preshow testing.all i could think was how can i do a lasershow in a concert setting.well front screen laser show.big power with beems and fiber feeds.and that was that.at the time it was very safe to use cs parts.no way to have stray beems easy setups and pcaom color.you can thank me for the part of the neos manuanl that reads do not hit the edges of aom when at 2.00am in the morning i blew one up with 25watts and a bad miss tune ....not my fault but back then they told me that it would hold 100 watts but 11watts in ten out 15watts in 12 out then 25 watts in15 out....now we know that there is a blooming effect that chokes then out.but then that lesson cost 2000 dollars.

[ImageLight]

Hey Greg, Welcome to PL

Nice... New Jersey Your close to us Delaware addicts... Where in Jersey are you?

Mark

[Bradfo69]

Hot damn! No place in New Jersey is more than a 2 hour ride. Mark (above) and myself are in the Wilmington/Newark, Delaware area maybe 30 minutes from Philly. In the very near future, I (we) are going to be starting public, ticketed planetarium style shows in the banquet facility I manage.

Mark your calendar for August 14th and do whatever you have to do to block out a couple of days. Trust me... you want to find a way. Here's some light reading:

http://www.photonlexicon.com/forums/...18-Sign-up-now!

SELEM is the granddaddy of all LEM's... or the mutha' depending on your preferred phrasing. There is your wedding day. The birth of your kids. And... SELEM, as far as life experiences go.

[inova20]

looking for some local venders to buy some laser parts to build a 4watt blue 2watt red 2 watt green parts would rather give the money to a member .i want to build my next laser over buying non tuneable junk.....but still cant get over the low cost....selem seems to cool all laser weekend .thankyou for the invite...im there