How to Enhance Your Mobile DJ Light Show with Some LED Lights from Novopro Trilighre 3

0:00 Welcome to one of my demonstrations in my relatively cluttered room

Right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to one of my demonstrations in my relatively cluttered room. Now, first of all, we have here a totem from OptiKinetics, and on the underside I have the Nova Pro Trilighter 3 LED. OK, so there's three LEDs in there, it's battery powered, and you can use it via the mains. I just want to give you a bit of info on that as well. Now, first of all, I haven't attached the top or the bottom to the main structure simply for just quickness really, because I want to pull it all apart and put it back together again. So, what have I done? I have, first of all, taken the feet off the Trilighter, and then I have screwed it to the top of the totem. There you go. I'm going to turn this on, and we can see that's shining there,

And I'm now going to place that there. Alright, let's turn the light off, and you can see the sort of effect you get. Now, what I like about that effect is it's shining down, first of all, and also you've got the effect on the base of the totem as well. Now, at the moment this is on just a random kind of motion, but you can set it sound to like Master Slave, DMX... and so on. So, I'm just going to put the light back on... Okay, let's turn this off, and let me unscrew it now. So what I'm going to do is take it off there, and now I'm just going to put it on the bottom facing up. So again, for quickness, just take that off, power on, place it there, put that back on, and put that back on.

And there you go. So now, you have a different effect. Slightly similar, but different at the same time. Now, you may not want to use lights like this, so you may not have them. Hold on, let me turn that off. And you may be wondering, what's the cheapest solution? What can I use to put some kind of effect on the insides of a totem? Well... It may sound crazy, but take a trip to Poundland. Check these out. They're small LEDs and you have a little battery pack. Turn them on, and there you go. So... Let's put that back on there.

2:45 Normally you'd probably have that set up a little bit better

Like that. Let's put that in the middle there. And I'm just going to put that around there for now. I mean, alright. Normally you'd probably have that set up a little bit better. Looks a little bit dodgy, but let's turn the light off. And there you go. So... Slightly less looking professional-looking. Maybe I would stick the actual battery pack at the top. But you see, that doesn't look too bad. I mean, it's not brilliant. I'll be honest with you. It's nothing. Absolutely nothing compared to what I used earlier on. But it still serves a purpose. OK, so... Turn that off. And let's put the light back on. OK, so... Where's my tri-lighter? There it is. So something very quickly about the tri-lighter. There may be a slight bit of confusion here.

That was where I'm concerned and now I've got it sorted. And apparently there's not much info on the web about this. So listen up if you've got some of the Tri-Lighter 3 from Nova Pro. Now, of course, there's two buttons here. One for on... There. And, of course, one for off. You've also got another button here for battery. Now, let's imagine you want to plug the tri-lighter in and run it off the mains. All you do is... You set the battery to off. And then you turn the power on, of course. On the other hand... If you want to, say, charge your tri-lighter... Power off. And then what you do is the battery switch... You switch to the on position while it's been... While the power supply or while the mains is plugged in.

5:04 You're going to have the battery being charged just maybe too much

Now, what that will do... Dog's barking. Is that will charge up the battery. Now why this? Let's just imagine you're plugging it in via the mains and you have the battery on. Well, what's happening there is... Let's say you've got it on for quite a large amount of time. You're going to have the battery being charged just maybe too much. Now, the analogy here is a little bit like plugging the main supply into your laptop with a battery in there. Okay, it's going to last as long as... Until you unplug the mains and the battery runs out. But what's happening is your battery is getting charged... It's being charged all the time. It's not having time to discharge. So this way you can plug the tri-lighter in and you can charge it.

And then unplug mains, turn it on and it will use its battery. Alternatively, you can plug it in. You can turn the battery off so it's not charging the battery while the mains... While it's using the mains power. Alright? That makes sense. Okay? Now, what I did... I had that screw attached to the top. So that's poking out quite a bit. But again all you've got to do is find something... A flat head and then that means you've got pretty much a very flat clear space to put something else on top. You see now if you wanted to you could put one underneath and then one on the floor as well. So you've got two of them. It's just another way of changing... The feel and vibe of the light show you've got. You see this to me is not subtle.

It's sort of in your face. Because aluminium or... Illumium... As... Illumium... Illumium... Tinfoil. Aluminium as we say in England. The correct way of saying it, you American people. Thank you. I'm going to get a shit load of agro now.

Is very shiny. So you've got all of this that's doing nothing. If you haven't got an effect in there. So by having a lighting effect inside the totem means... You've got something big and bold and brash. That's going to look good. Now I hope that's been a help. There will be a link in the description by the way to Nova Pro. And actually I'll put a direct link to the Trilighter 3. This is the one I'm using at the moment. Nova Pro of course will be at the BPM show if you're watching this video in September of 2019. The BPM show is taking place next month 5th and 6th of October. I'll also put a link to the BPM show. Nova Pro will be there along with myself. I'll be on this CD Paul stand. And I'm going to be having these in these totems.

So come and check them out. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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