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Do you want colour or just white light? A lot of the very affordable warm white LED fresnels use a single channel mode for brightness. To a certain extent you can gel them. We've got some elumen8 MP60WW fixtures which subjectively feel like a 500W fres in brightness. Could be worth a look? A...

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Ah, OK, gotcha. A different linear fixture.

I get the impression Kyle is talking about the linear chauvet units.

I think the confusion creeping in is that the Chauvet unit is a continuous strip but the ETC unit is an asymmetric beam, and so you don't mount them butting up to each other, but spaced across the cyc. Different tools.

Hi. Welcome.

Thanks for the clarification.

Sounds like you want 100v line to distribute the audio. They don't have to honk and echo like the speakers of old.

This whole patent thing from a US viewpoint bemused me in the UK recently when watching "Dropout", where a patent was filed just to extract payment from someone else for their development, kind of after the fact. I may have misunderstood, though.Is it the case that there can be different...

Above is absolutely right, and will allow what you want. If you're recording the cues in order, whether you'e in tracking or cue only mode won't matter - it's only if you start recording cues out of order that this might trip you up, but you can go back fix things afterwards as @jglodeklights...

Always fit a terminator to the last fixture in a chain. You'll find a load of experts in the likes of Facebook who will tell you terminating is never needed - they're wrong. You'll probably get away with it - until you don't, often in the middle of a show when you just had to add or swap out a...

Perhaps a reference to 70s UK comedy "Not the 9 o'clock news" and the hi-fi shop sketch?"I want to buy a gramophone"

Yellow aren't powercon, they're tru-one.

ETC do publish the inrush, at least for some of their fixtures.

Inrush will get you every time.