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What
you get:::...
There's
a few clues on the primarily corporate blue and yellow box
as to what this little box of tricks can do.
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Front
Of Lightbus
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Out
of the box though this could be just about any three channel
fan controller on the market, but look under each of the
control knobs and you can see they're labelled red, green
and blue. These are actually used to control both the intensity
and the colour of the light produced as we'll see in a moment.
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Front
Of Lightbus
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Moving
round to the rear we find four 4-pin outputs to which the
supplied LED lamp units are connected. The main power switch
is fed from a standard 4-pin Molex.
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Rear
Of Lightbus
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And
these are the lamp units. Each high-intensity LED is mounted
in a transparent lamp unit which can be tilted and swivelled
in almost any direction.
On
the end is a domed lens unit which it's claimed help focus
the beam, though I doubt it has much effect to be honest.
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Lamp
Unit
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Sunbeam
supply some shaped self adhesive Velcro to mount the lamp
units pretty much wherever you like. Of course you can also
drill the base and mount using a screw if you'd sooner.
I was helf tempted to suggest Sunbeam should pre-drill these
but with hindsight this would reduce the surface area of
the already small base and may stop the Velcro sticking
effectively.
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Lamp
Unit
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Apparently
the lens section is removable but I couldn't get it off
with reasonable force, plus I didn't want to damage anything
in the process.
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Lamp
Unit
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So
now we know there's a three channel controller which outputs
a feed to four lamps. Hardly a ground-breaking setup on
the face of it. Let's plug it in and fire it up.
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