Recent content by Andrewr

The DMX standard specifys termination for any cable run, regardless of length or number of fixtures. Yes you can get away with not bothering a lot of the time, BUT twitching fixtures is a classic symptom of an unterminated line. Try terminating the DMX, if that doesnt fix it you can then ring...

Actually DMX was intended to control both inteligents and dimmers. (its just a higher baud rate version of CMX, which was developed by Colortran to control scrollers IIRC) As everbody has said, the fixture don't know the difference between 3 and 5 pin cable. If you are using Mac250 Entours...

personally I wouldn't unrinate on LJ if it was on fire. It is fine for club stuff (and has the best shape generator ever!) but I would look at somnething like magicQ or hog2pc if you want a cue stack! try www.chamsys.co.uk

Are fuses below 1A readlly avalible at US voltages? The lowest fuse you normally see in the UK for mains is 3A (even in 75w fittings). Primarily due to the rarity of 1A fuses. Its fine so long as everything downstream is rated to or above the fuse rating. The fuse is really only there to stop...

Your not wrong. Better than Source 4's in just about every way. And you can make gobo's out of OHP film. Lets see ya do that in an S4! And the 90's are nice too :)

Possibly. No easy way to tell. I have dimmers that need between 30 and 50w of (resistive) load to function correctly. Once they are running they will drive any inductive loads, but for low wattages still need a dummy load. Or they just switch off. I realise US electrics is a horrible mix of...

OOO, ditto! The point I was trying to make is that ACN will make DMX a purely software issue. So yes we will be replacing some (and eventually all) of our DMX cabling with networking type stuff. But the bigger change is that we will never need to do it again. No change in cabling for any...

Its because its all pure colours. Compare the tranmission spectrum for a red LED and L106. All the other bits in the gel's spectrum are the bits that make it look 'right' and the LED 'wrong' Its part of the reason people are developing stuff like 7 colour mixing for LED's that way you can...

Best cure for fear of height ever is Cablenet. (tensioned wire grid to you guys) Bouncing about 15m above the seating tends to kill or cure... lol

Yes the VL1000 is very quiet. In fact is just about the only fixture I can leave on during a classical even and not get complaints. (about fan noise) It does have fans in it, but they only normally cut in when you are using the framing shutters. Good points: Its tugsten, so its the right CT...

mmm IIRC (and its very late so I doubt it ;) ) 2 x SLD96 racks, around about 120 ways at 3k and about 20 at 5k. Plus houselights. An ETC/AVAB Congo. FOH 12x 20 degree Selecon Pacific (600w) Best Lantern ever! 24x 12/28 Pacific Zoom (soooo much better than the S4 zoom) (600w) half with...

On moving quitely in boots: one of my favorite quotes ever; 'Hello little dancer girl, clumping around the stage and the wings in your dance shoes making more noise that a herd of elephants.' Look at my feet, see my big black boots? hear how I move without noise? Now learn! Technician...

For simple stuff you should get away with it. But remember that the supply is still being processed by the dimmers even when they are at 100%. As a long term solution its likely to reduce the lifespan of anything electronic attached to it. More importantly, it being an Inductive load...

Actually I believe the point of ACN is to move everything above the hardware level when it comes to data transmission. Ethernet is actually (IIRC) 7 levels of hardware/software. ACN sits at the 2nd layer and will send DMX (or RDM, or anything else people invent) (an 1st layer doobry) along...

What has worked really well for me: I did something similar recently, just with 16 Par64's up the sides and a Mac250E perched on top, 3m high in all. Solution; 2 scaff tower outriggers, we already had them, but they should be cheap and easy to get hold of. I only had small base plates and...