Construction of dancing color music fountains. Modernization of already existing fountains.
We are pleased to offer you a completely new service in the fountain construction market. Construction of dancing color music fountains, working to the music that you want to listen to.
If you have already had to look on the vast expanses of the Internet for a ready-made solution for building a dancing fountain or an original solution for modernizing your fountain, then you probably noticed that in addition to vague articles on the topic of how colorful it looks, almost no one offers (and does not put it on website) of real projects. Because they don't exist.
Most likely, all they can offer you is to sell you a ready-made color and music dancing fountain complex of the Greek company FONTANA (worth from several million rubles), with its own cost of installing expensive equipment. In this case, you can purchase a fairly beautiful dancing fountain, where the beauty of the fountain will directly depend on its cost, but with one small caveat:
This fountain will not work to music. And it will work only according to the ready-made color and music programs written at the factory in Greece for its dancing fountains. As a rule, it is from 15 to 45 compositions. And it is them that you will see and hear every time your dancing fountain turns on.
There are also fountains that change water patterns and the color of the illumination of the jets or “spit out” multi-colored water jets approximately in time with the music. But such projects can hardly be called full-fledged dancing fountains.
We are probably the only ones who already today make dancing color and music fountains that work from any input sound signal in real time. , not tiring the eyes, beautiful images.
When you turn on the music, the fountain switches to color-music dancing mode.
The video shows examples of the operation of a 3-channel dancing fountain with a bowl diameter of 4 meters, a volume of 10,000 liters and a central jet height of up to 7 meters.
Dancing fountains are made with 3 or 4 channels, with 3 or 4 pumps (or groups of pumps for large fountains).
In this case, a ready-made fountain was used. Only pumps were installed in the fountain bowl (3 pcs * 2 kW), additional equipment and DiscoLux color music with 13 underwater RGB LED spotlights with a total power of 468 watts.
The color and music accompaniment of the fountain operation is organized on the DiscoLux controller (supporting several modes of color music, running lights and illumination). The operation of the fountain itself is also organized on a DiscoLux controller specially designed for this purpose.
During the construction or modernization of fountains, we install GRUNDFOS submersible pumps (Germany) and DANFOSS frequency converters (Germany) with at least double the performance margin (during the operation of the fountain, from 5% to 50% of their power is used). This somewhat increases the total cost of the equipment, but allows, under fairly critical operating conditions of the fountain, to completely avoid equipment overloads and ensure uninterrupted operation of the dancing color and music fountain for many years.
Musical fountains
A modern fountain is a hydraulic structure of particular complexity. Also among its components are pumps, lighting, sound, monitoring and control equipment. It is designed to ensure that the fountain works for a long time from electricity, subject to contact with water. Our company is engaged in the manufacture of equipment for fountains and performs all work related to the design, installation, maintenance.
To comply with all working conditions, the fountain must meet high requirements and be reliable and safe. Therefore, we use high-quality and certified equipment from trusted manufacturers. And the fountains function thanks to a special control program "FontanPlay". The principle of operation of our light and music fountains involves controlling the change in the height of the water jets of the fountain, the formation of constantly changing water compositions synchronously with the change in sound, a kind of dance of water jets. To quickly change the height of the jets without time delays, either quick-acting valves or pumps located in the fountain bowl can be used. In this situation, you can even perform a running jet around the ring. The action program of the light and music fountain includes three modes: manual control, synchronously with music and from the previously laid down program. In the automatic music control mode, different groups of backlights and jets can work according to the program, from signals at the output of frequency filters or from their first derivative - it looks more dynamic, which provides a complex dynamic pattern of the fountain.
peculiarities
The construction of fountains with light and musical accompaniment has become a special area of the company's activity. The light and music fountain is gaining popularity and is becoming the hallmark of every city.
In terms of its technical equipment, this kind of design is quite complicated:
- regulation and programming of the jet and nozzle for each music;
- automatic control using the program;
- use of pumps
- use of valves
- using RGB lighting
- use of rotary nozzles
- use of controlled nozzles
Modular fountains
Modular fountains are a ready-made design assembled at the factory. It can be immediately installed in a pond or bowl. Each module has its own original water pattern. This type of construction can be used as an independent unit or as a component in a composition of modules. In this case, separate control is possible. The modules come with a special backlight that creates illumination.
Benefits of ordering a fountain structure from us
Our company, operating in the fountain construction market, has had a positive development trend over the years. We employ only professionals who will develop and make a fountain of different levels of complexity a reality. Among the orders of the company are large city fountains, decorative, summer cottages.
We install and service fountains. The quality of the created projects is guaranteed and supported by the work performed at the proper level. By contacting us, you will receive a full consultation from our experts. They will help you choose the components for your project, visually present the fountain. They will also provide services related to commissioning.
Making fountains that will fully satisfy the most demanding connoisseurs of beauty is our main task. Thanks to the cohesion of the team, their creative ideas, you will get an original and unique fountain.
A visualization program was created for the simulation.
Our light and music fountains contain hundreds of RGB light channels and dozens of hydro-channels controlled from a sound source or programmatically.
In the mode of manual or automatic music accompaniment, the dynamics of sounds are emphasized by the dynamics of water jets and colors. With the cessation of music, the architecture of the fountain becomes motionless, static - a form of pause works or the movement simply stops. The main idea is that some of the jets work in direct proportion, and some in inversion, according to this scheme, the fountain will always be lively and dynamic, no matter what kind of piece of music would be used for accompaniment. It is important to choose oppositely compatible jets. A program for PC has been created that will perfectly synchronize movement and color, due to the delay in the exit of jets after opening the valves.
Thus, the pool of the light and music fountain forms a kind of stage platform where you can play small variety performances against the backdrop of original water scenery.
Freesoft program FONTANPLAY
For full control of the fountain, sync cues are used to precisely link the musical composition to the fountain scenes. Manages frequency regulators, valves and spotlights. The main protocol is DMX512. Special tools help you quickly create light scenes and inkjet compositions and link them to musical composition marks. Read more
Musical fountains- a type of artificial water body that is very popular among engineers and ordinary lovers of beautiful spectacles. They are also called color-musical, musical and even dancing, singing. There is logic in this: the jets of water change their height, alternate in a special order, and are illuminated according to the tempo and general mood of the music. This creates the feeling that the water captures the mood of the composition and echoes it. She seems to come to life, and such a game cannot but bewitch.
Features of control of light and music fountains
In the past, the designated ones worked on the principle of color music. Water flows were controlled by pumps and floodlights submerged in water, dividing the music into separate frequencies. At the same time, the “dance” scheme turned out to be very primitive.
Later, the models were subject to the principles of computer simulation. In this case, music was the basic part of the program. For each new accent, the backlight and the pump were switched on and off. A more complex dance of water jets arose.
Modern light and music fountains often called cybernetic, since the synchronism of changes in water, light and music is the result of the work of an “artificial brain”. In such fountains, not only the height of the water jets changes, but also their direction, the level of color saturation (brightness). The result is a whole show that you can feel. However, it is very difficult to fully grasp the principle of change, since there are practically no alternations of the same type.
Currently, it is the third way to control fountains that is considered the most original. Our company is happy to offer you samples that work according to this principle.
Varieties of light and music fountains
- Mobile, which can be quickly installed at the venue of the holiday. They are suitable for outdoor and indoor work, day and night. Such fountains are most often rented. The issue of purchase is expedient if the customer's company is engaged in traveling exhibitions, concerts, holding promotions. Quite often, fountains of this type are purchased on barges and ships oriented to holiday cruises and walks.
- Interior, presented in a large selection of shapes and sizes. They are selected taking into account the dimensions of the room and its specifics. They are chosen by hotels, entertainment and shopping centers, restaurants and other establishments. The set of produced effects is negotiated with each client individually.
- For installation on water (on pontoons). A traditional option for decorating an embankment or an artificial lake next to a particular object.
Elements of a light and music fountain
Each product created by our company is different from the previous one, because the field for fantasy flight is huge. However, in general, each sample consists of the following elements:
- a bowl decorated with stone, plants or other details (at the request of the customer);
- hydroplastic system (what makes the jets change height and direction);
- lighting system (lighting devices - outdoor and submersible);
- acoustic system;
- control system;
- water filtration system.
ordering light and music fountains with us, you get a guarantee of meeting deadlines, an honest cost calculation scheme, high quality of all parts and components, and a mandatory consideration of your interests. Therefore, the result of cooperation is a beautiful, durable and reliable fountain that will delight everyone for whom it was created.
The prototype of the light and music fountain was a structure installed on the island of Yunost in Irkutsk, which consists of a powerful water pump of several tens of kilowatts, fountain nozzles with electric valve drives. Water is supplied to the fountains at the command of the software device. The height of the fountain reaches 15-20 meters, with a total water flow of 10-30 tons per minute. Water after use is returned to the channel of the Angara River, from where it is pumped again. On the intake pipe, filters are installed to protect against flowing precipitation.
At night, the fountains are illuminated by powerful spotlights with color filters.
All electrical equipment and software are installed in a separate switchboard and connected to the motors and valves with a moisture-proof wire.
It is almost impossible to make such a device at home due to the price and weight of the equipment used.
The circuit solution is easier to solve using water pumps for aquariums - a small price, different performance of pump pumps allows you to make a fountain for any room, in terms of area.
With small dimensions, low power consumption and high performance, the pump can be installed in artificial pools of cottages, hospitals and spa fountains.
When using the pump, the air in the room is humidified, the sound of falling water imitates the sound of a waterfall, which creates a healing effect and a positive effect on the restoration of the human nervous system.
Characteristics of water pumps of the MAGI type of various modifications are summarized in the table:
Supply voltage 220 Volts
Power consumption from 5 to 20 watts
Productivity 200 - 1000 liters per hour
The height of the water supply pump pump 20-80 cm
Sensitivity with external synchronization 0.5-1 Volt.
The pump includes a plastic impact-resistant housing, in the upper part of which there is a moisture-proof electric motor - a pump, below there are removable filter cartridges for coarse and fine water purification from mechanical, biological and chemical impurities.
It is allowed to operate the pump when completely immersed in the water of the pool.
The pressure pump blade is enclosed in a cone shape for connecting a water supply hose. The whole structure can be easily disassembled for maintenance and repair
When using the pump to create fountains, the fine filter is temporarily removed to reduce fluid resistance, the water supply performance increases markedly. The set of pump accessories includes all the necessary tubes and hoses for water intake from the pool.
For lighting design of the fountain, it is additionally equipped with LED garlands of four colors: red, green, yellow and orange. Garlands are installed directly in the pool. The change in brightness occurs when the output levels of the digital counter and the pulses of the flicker generator are summed. The sequence of counting pulses creates a pulse generator.
The circuit diagram of the device of the light and music fountain allows you to manually and automatically adjust the height of the fountain and switch the garlands in a binary code. The low-voltage power supply of the LEDs allows their installation directly in the pool water. The switching of the color and music design is performed with switching of channels in binary counting, with control from both the internal generator and the external signal, with the connection of the system device to the output amplifier of the audio equipment.
The electrical safety of the device is ensured by the installation of devices for galvanic isolation of the device circuit from the mains.
The schematic diagram represents a digital device consisting of: a frequency generator on the elements of a digital microcircuit DD1.1 and DD1.2, a garland flicker generator on the elements DD1.3, DD1.4, a binary counter DD2 and controls for the operation of garlands and a pump motor VT2- VT5. From the outputs of the counter, pulses in binary code through the limiting resistors R7-R10 are fed to the inputs of powerful transistors VT2-VT4. The flicker generator on the elements DD1.3, DD1.4 creates surges at the input 2.3DD2 periodically switching the outputs of the counter DD2. To integrate the duration of the pulses at the output (8) DD1.4, an RC circuit R6, C3 is installed. Part of the binary code signal, from the meter output, is fed through separating diodes VD1-VD4 to the pump motor speed controller assembly, consisting of the DA2 optocoupler, which controls the delay in the opening angle of the triac VS1. The pump motor - "M1" is included in the anode circuit of the triac.
The increase in the speed of the electric motor M1 of the water pump occurs automatically with an increase in the brightness of the garlands, while the pump has a maximum performance at the maximum voltage on the pump motor.
The circuit diagram of the device is powered from the mains through a step-down transformer T1 and a diode bridge VD5.
To reduce interference from the operation of the triac converter, elements to reduce the level of interference are introduced into the circuit - the line filter capacitor C9.
Elements of the digital microcircuit DD1 in the device performs the function of "AND-NOT" - logical multiplication with subsequent inversion of the result. When the logical units match at all inputs of the element, a logical zero appears at the output. Any other combination of input logical states leads to the formation of a logical unit at the output. The DD1 microcircuit includes four “2 AND-NOT” elements, which allows you to assemble two generators.
Chip DD2 is a digital counter that contains four memory registers and is a frequency divider. The results of the count in binary code are taken from the outputs Q1, Q2, Q4, Q8.
The counter has two setting inputs 2 and 3, when high voltage levels are applied to them, all internal triggers go to the zero state and the counting stops. The state of the logic levels at the output of the counter on the DD2 chip is the binary equivalent of a decimal number.
On the elements DD1.1 and DD1.2 of the DD1 microcircuit and the transistor VT1, a pulse generator is made with a frequency of several tens of hertz, the frequency and
the duty cycle depends on the values of the resistors R2, R3 and the capacitance of the capacitor C1, when synchronized from an external signal source by the elements DD1.1, DD1.2, a pulse is generated that is sufficient to switch the counter registers on the DD2 microcircuit.
The circuit diagram of the device does not contain scarce radio components. Resistors are installed with a power of 0.125 watts of the MLT or C-29 type, resistor R16 is set for a power of at least a watt. Capacitors of type K50 and KM, C9 of type K73 for a voltage of at least 400 volts. Adjusting resistors R2 R3, R5 type SP-3.
Digital microcircuits are applicable from the K155, K555 series.
Transistors installed with reverse conductivity type KT312, KT315 - powerful ones can be replaced with KT817 B. It is advisable to install small-sized diodes of the D9, D310 type, the VD5 diode bridge on KD213B. Network transformer T1 for secondary voltage 9-12 volts type TPP112-6, TN-2, TN-4. The pump was used with the highest capacity of the MAGI-700 or MAGI-1000 type. The instructions in detail, in the form of pictures, indicate the installation and maintenance of the pump pump.
The circuit is assembled on a printed circuit board with dimensions of 80 * 55, due to the low power of the pump motor, the triac is installed without a radiator.
A correctly assembled circuit of a light and music fountain starts working immediately, the required duty cycle is selected by resistor R2 - the ratio of the interval when voltage is present at the output of element DD1.2 to the full period of the pulse.
The resistor R3 sets the acceptable frequency of the generator - the time of charging and discharging the capacitor C1 through the threshold device on the transistor VT1 and the element DD1.1. When synchronizing the operation of the counter from an external signal source, the device should be connected to the speaker of the tape recorder or the output of the amplifier, and the SA1 toggle switch should be turned to the left, according to the diagram, position. In this case, the transistor VT1 is used as a preamplifier, and the elements of the microcircuit DD1.1 and DD1.2 will work in the counting signal generation mode.
It is possible to check the operation of the triac controller by connecting pin 3 of the DA2 optocoupler to the minus of the power bus through a 1 kΩ resistor.
Four garlands are made on LEDs of the same type, but with a different glow color. It is advisable to replace yellow or orange LEDs with blue LEDs, which are more expensive.
The water pump and LED garlands are installed in a water tank such as a pool or a large aquarium. The LEDs are attached to the bottom of the tank, and the pump to the side wall - with factory suction cups. The water outlet spray must be deployed with holes up to create a fountain.
When using a pool with aquarium fish, the filters become clogged with waste products and must be washed periodically, otherwise the pressure of the fountains will decrease.
To turn off the device at night, in addition, a photorelay can be introduced into the circuit, made according to articles published in the journal. MAGI type pumps are sold in aquarium stores.
The printed circuit board with circuit elements is mounted in a plastic case from the factory power supply, to connect the power cord of the pump to the circuit, a socket is installed on the case. Fuse FU1 and switch SA2 are used in any configuration.
