Hey everyone. Let me first say thank you to all the contributors. You have been so helpful in the past, and we have recently discovered an interesting problem while programming and running a new show.
Here is our main equipment list:
Congo KID console
4 - Elation Platinum Spot 15R PROs
10 - Elation Platinum Spot 5Rs (not PROs)
2 - Chauvet Q-spot 260s
Tons of conventional fixtures
several special effects (fog, haze, etc).
We have been using all the equipment very well for the past two years since we purchased a lot of new equipment. Since we are a large church, we always program lots of small "shows" for each Sunday, but do several very large shows a year (over 100 cues, etc). It seems whenever we do a very large show with lots of cues, weird things start to happen. Last year, during Christmastime, we had a couple fixtures with pan/tilt changes. When we would go to a cue in rehearsal, they would not be near where we programmed. We would simply take the time to redo the cues and they would be fine for the rest of the show. Little bugs like that. Being completely honest, we just assumed it's because we got a Congo console and not the best GrandMA (!), so the software might be a little buggy. Obviously, finances are always a factor.
This year, we are finding that after programming, some of the Elation 15Rs are not responding well to COLOR changes. Obviously the cues are all programmed well, and we keep redoing them, but they seem to default to a yellow color instead of white all the time. If we select a fixture and control it's color, we can get it to go back to white (or whatever other color we need). We then update the cues, etc. But, in realtime, they don't go to the color they are supposed. Interestingly, this is only happening with 2 of the 4 - 15Rs and 2 of the 10 - 5Rs. On the channel strip they show the mover should be on white, but it's usually yellow. (We have even tried changing the color back to white in previous cues while they are 0 intensity, and it looks like it should work on the channel strip - we see the color change - but doesn't happen in the fixture).
We have reset the fixture, checked everything else we could think of, but to no avail. Just seeing if anyone else has experience something similar to this and might have some advice. Before we spend the time going up to each fixture and resetting the color wheel I wanted to be sure there wasn't something strange on the console end. By the way, we did slow down our DMX send on the Congo to "Medium."
Sorry for the long post, I just try to be as thorough as possible and give as much information as possible. The rest of the show runs great: timecode is perfect, pan/tilt, gobos, etc. Just color seems to be our issue in this particular production (which has around 160 cues).
Thanks everyone!
JDSILVERM
Here is our main equipment list:
Congo KID console
4 - Elation Platinum Spot 15R PROs
10 - Elation Platinum Spot 5Rs (not PROs)
2 - Chauvet Q-spot 260s
Tons of conventional fixtures
several special effects (fog, haze, etc).
We have been using all the equipment very well for the past two years since we purchased a lot of new equipment. Since we are a large church, we always program lots of small "shows" for each Sunday, but do several very large shows a year (over 100 cues, etc). It seems whenever we do a very large show with lots of cues, weird things start to happen. Last year, during Christmastime, we had a couple fixtures with pan/tilt changes. When we would go to a cue in rehearsal, they would not be near where we programmed. We would simply take the time to redo the cues and they would be fine for the rest of the show. Little bugs like that. Being completely honest, we just assumed it's because we got a Congo console and not the best GrandMA (!), so the software might be a little buggy. Obviously, finances are always a factor.
This year, we are finding that after programming, some of the Elation 15Rs are not responding well to COLOR changes. Obviously the cues are all programmed well, and we keep redoing them, but they seem to default to a yellow color instead of white all the time. If we select a fixture and control it's color, we can get it to go back to white (or whatever other color we need). We then update the cues, etc. But, in realtime, they don't go to the color they are supposed. Interestingly, this is only happening with 2 of the 4 - 15Rs and 2 of the 10 - 5Rs. On the channel strip they show the mover should be on white, but it's usually yellow. (We have even tried changing the color back to white in previous cues while they are 0 intensity, and it looks like it should work on the channel strip - we see the color change - but doesn't happen in the fixture).
We have reset the fixture, checked everything else we could think of, but to no avail. Just seeing if anyone else has experience something similar to this and might have some advice. Before we spend the time going up to each fixture and resetting the color wheel I wanted to be sure there wasn't something strange on the console end. By the way, we did slow down our DMX send on the Congo to "Medium."
Sorry for the long post, I just try to be as thorough as possible and give as much information as possible. The rest of the show runs great: timecode is perfect, pan/tilt, gobos, etc. Just color seems to be our issue in this particular production (which has around 160 cues).
Thanks everyone!
JDSILVERM