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<blockquote data-quote="BReeves" data-source="post: 1639471" data-attributes="member: 10973"><p>This reminds me of the late 60’s early 70's when disco was in full swing. I had a service contract on the audio system for a club that asked me if I could build them a color organ. This was back when transistors were just taking over tubes and IC’s were 2 inch square cubes. I designed and built a 3 channel 1000 watts per channel color organ using discrete audio amps/filters and triacs to drive the lights. UL would not have approved but it worked and it worked pretty durn good. I still have the smaller 500 watt version I built for the prototype, use to hook it up to the Christmas tree every year. Doubt it still works as it’s been years since it’s been fired up and the caps are probably bad. That was a fun time in my life.</p><p></p><p>What you guys are doing now is amazing but we were the pioneers <img src="/images/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BReeves, post: 1639471, member: 10973"] This reminds me of the late 60’s early 70's when disco was in full swing. I had a service contract on the audio system for a club that asked me if I could build them a color organ. This was back when transistors were just taking over tubes and IC’s were 2 inch square cubes. I designed and built a 3 channel 1000 watts per channel color organ using discrete audio amps/filters and triacs to drive the lights. UL would not have approved but it worked and it worked pretty durn good. I still have the smaller 500 watt version I built for the prototype, use to hook it up to the Christmas tree every year. Doubt it still works as it’s been years since it’s been fired up and the caps are probably bad. That was a fun time in my life. What you guys are doing now is amazing but we were the pioneers :) [/QUOTE]
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