ETC 48-96 and bump buttons.

[soundman1024]

So I had a crash course to run lighting for our church today. I had to do service as our LD is sking and didn't bother to train someone avalible to do it. There are 3 people, but 2 of them were on a ski trip and one is an actor who had obligations at a play practice. Anyway All went well except I put my clip board on the light board [ETC Express 48-96] and the clip board hit some bump buttons on the bottom row so some house lights went from about 10-20% to 100. I think it was anywere from 1 to 6 buttons, but I got off of them so fast I didn't have a chance to find out. Anyway I don't want that to happen on sunday. If I put the board in blind mode that can't happen right? If that won't do it is there a really simple way to turn bump buttons off? I'm a n00b to this console and lighting in general, so I figured I would ask the people who would know. I'll probably check it out sunday morning, but I would like to as first.

[TechWench]

Ya, ypu can disable the bump buttons if you go into the setup page and look around for a bit. i cant say for sure what category it is under, but i know its there.

im sure someone else will fill in the blanks here!
but its there, if you get into that setup menu by hitting the setup button!

happy hunting.

[SuperCow]

Just going into Blind is the easies way to disable the bumb buttons from having a visible effect.

[techieman33]

press the setup button, then press 1 then enter. That will take you into the system settings. Then type 14, enter. Then It shoud tell you to press 0 to disable or 1 to enable, you'll of course press 0, then enter. and then press stage and that will tke you back to the normal view that your used to.

Also I would suggest you download the offline editor, it will give you a chance to play with the "board" without having to worry about messing anything up.

[soundman1024]

Well, on Saturday I had a chance to check it out. Blind mode didn't disable the bump buttons acturally. I thought it would but it didn't, anyway I was careful and it worked out just find. Odd though, I figured blind would have disabled the bump buttons.

[ship]

Hmm, granted diabling the bump buttons would be good, what about moving the clip board?

[soundman1024]

That is what I did. I was guessing blind would work but I tested it and it didn't so I decided that moving the clipboard made much more sense than bothering with setup. It made alot more sense especially since I am not comfortable with that board.

[techieman33]

Good call, though really it's a pretty easy board to use, it just takes a little getting used to.

[SuperCow]

In a similar note; is there a way to disable the trackpad? Ours keeps on randomly kicking in, and it's bugging me!

[techieman33]

That one i'm not sure about, but I think so.