how's it work?

its a light, just like any other light, only brighter and more tightly foccused...when you see patters, all you are doing is putting a gobo or template in front of the light...

well it's not that complecated,
(i'll try to explen my best)
(it might not be the specifec order that it work's in)

well it start's off by a lamp that is then past throu a color corector,(not all light's have them)then the color wheel , then the gobo wheel ,then in case of the mighty scan there is a shuter unit (it dose the strob and dimming)

then the light go into lens and then go's off the mirro and projects

(but for the light's that are in the higher end there are many more steps)



hope it help's


dj steph

steph is right, just that the pockets or mighties do not dim.

Process:

Bulb

Color Wheel

Gobo Wheel (sometimes the gobo and color wheel are together depends on the light)

Shutter(s)-strobing, black out (bulb stays on), and on most discharge equiped fixtures they are used for dimming.

Lens

Mirror

Ground-walls-ceiling-and whatever else

yeah and don't forget about the laser on the pocketscan.

some lights like H|gh-end have many more color and gobo wheels that which makes them too confusing for me.

Yes they can have multible color and gobo wheels pretty crazy but yet convient.

I created a simple picture of how a scan works... lol... Very rough as you can see...

Correction: I Spelt Gobo as Gogo in the drawing... My bad...

Ray,
I don't see a picture?

ok thanx for all that. thats what i thought but i wasn't 2 sure from just lookin at pics
borro