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Gentlemen,
I want to experiment with my LED pars using their own sound-to-light function. They work great at low volumes, but the louder the music gets the faster they change colour. At gig volumes they would just flicker uselessly, mainly in white. I saw a band doing exactly this recently and man, did they waste some money to get a flickering white light effect!
Has anyone ever found the circuit schematic or done a mod to the circuit board to slug this response? (I tried putting blu-tac over the sensor - no change!) If I knew what the circuit was I'm sure there'll be a simple mod of changing a resistor value or something.
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hey, while it is not exactly recommended to go in and change things as it voids your warranty should ur led ever need repair but have u tried adjusting the sensitivity knob to low? um i have not see na schematic on the pc board so i dunno im sure you could get a hold of tech support and ask for one but you never know. peace! jingles.
I bought these second hand, so there's no warranty. Unfortunately they don't have a sensitivity knob - only one for 'speed' which controls their pre-programmed change pattern and has no effect when they're switched to 'music'. What I'll do if I got the schematic is replace the relevant resistor with a pot, to make a sensitivity control.
Cheers,
Craig
You could simply program scenes in a DMX controller that has sound response and then make a chase sequence. Since you'd have more control over the timing of changes, you can gain the control back that you want from those LED Par64's.

That would be more of a smart thing to do. But hey, if you feel adventurous with a soldering iron, you'd be best using a pot to take care of it. You shouldn't need a resistor if the pot is done properly inline with the circuit. You might want a PCB or other board of sorts to more easily run leads to and help facilitate mounting, but if the pot is big enough, that might not even be a proble. However, color matching might be touchy unless in master/slave mode.

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