i spent last weekend working with a couple mobile beat mercury projectors from x-laser and came away quite impressed. fairly small, with great modulation and galvos. they use single mode diodes so the output is low powered and super sharp. they worked great with radiators and handled my 30k LSX shows with ease.
Originally Posted by
mmuhler
I have not posted in a while and I guess these days the Facebook version of PL gets more attention so I may duplicate this up there.
I have been looking around for a really nice laser projector for programming in the Studio. There are a lot of high power projectors out there, but much less availability when it comes to low power. When programming in the studio I am using a 4watt (actually 3.5 due to a 488 blue instead of the 445) This is way too much power, my eyes, they are burning from the scorching colors and the images are washed even when I get the colors tuned correctly, if I turn down the brightness colors are not right. I have recently added a .09 OD ND filter with an AR coating and that brings it down to around 450mw fixing the issue with the penalty of some image distortion, not enough to really bother me, but a really nice high quality 500mw projector would work so much better.
There are a lot of low power junk projectors available on ebay but they have 24kpps or less (in some cases servos) scanners in them and TTL color modulation with a dismal beam quality. I am trying to create planetarium style shows with graphics, abstracts and animations and those specs simply would not work for me.
The Wicked Laser Pro laser cube is a contender but again too much power at 2.5 watts it would be an ND filter again, and very pricey for what it is at $2600.00 for something I am going to add an ND filter to.
It would be nice if a laser projector manufacturer came out a Projector that would work for this application.
Minimum 30K scanners Compact 506 or DT 40s, Leaning toward Compact 506 for the ability to have three tunings, 24, 30 and 36 is what I have on mine. Saturn's, Cambridge or Eyemagic 8000s would be awesome, but if you are creating content your average projector out there is showing it at 30k or using multiple projectors for distributed scanning. So programming at 60k for the masses in most cases is just wishful thinking. fiber corrected diodes ( I do not have those) in a nice compact package with the ability to Add FB4 if needed.
At the end of the day I do not think anyone is interested in making these as they would not sell multiples like they do with the high power stuff you only need one projector in most cases for your programming studio. You would not take this out to a show but it could be used in a planetarium depending on dome size.
It seems the only way is custom DIY for this one. Or you might be able to have Dave Kumpula build it for you.
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