Strobe Light

Steoob

hi all i dont think i ve ever posted on this thread before but anyway..i recently bought a mini strobe ligght about the size of two packets of cigarettes lay down beside each other... its small but it fills a small room... perfect for small gigs that my band do but the only way to turn it on and off is by plugging it in and out which is very hard to do during playing especially when a fast part of a song is coming up... there is also i speed knob on the back which you have to be near to turn up and down which is also virtually impossible so anyway i need to fix both those things and i ask for the help of all those out there who might be able to :-) anyway here is a dodgy diagram of the strobe light as it is... sorry about not using proper symbols and stuff but i dont know them.. anyway:


ok so you can see the strobe light so i was thinking.. put a footswitch along the mains line that is stompable like a guitar effect pedal... that seems easy enough to do i just have to find a switchwhich im finding hard to do...

anyway for the speed knob i was thinking of lengthening the three mwires going to the knob and join them up to a wah wah like pedal for guitar that i could move up and down hence turning the knob and hence making the knob turn... this is a diagram of what i think it might look like:


so anyway those are just my ideas but if anyone else has any better ideas by all means tell me.. and also help finding a footswitch for the mains would be greatly appreciated too

Thanks

Nukem

Try this www.maplin.co.uk and search remote socket?
Fast and easy perhaps

Nukem

Steoob

went there and i cant really find what im looking for any suggestions?

Nukem

Apologies i didnt read your post as thoroughly as was required.
The speed switch hmmmmmm.

Steoob

indeed hmm hehe em i think just buying a cheap volume pedal from musicstore.de and hooking it up sould be fine its the switch that im in a kerfuffle about

Capt'n Midnight

might not be a good idea - because it's got LIVE MAINS voltage in the unit.
perhaps a mechanical linkage - like an arm on the "speed knob" connected to those things they use for camera triggers connected to the foot plate.