Recent content by Darthrob13

Be careful about swapping them. Most often what kills these is the 4.5V battery going belly up. If these were installed at the same time the other battery could be a time-bomb that if you remove it from power (ie take it out of the rack) it too will become a doorstop. The battery is easy...

Unless they have found a creative way to hide it, I don't think so. It may be in the hands of the Philips technical writer for a redo.Panel Configuration (300 Series Consoles) When you purchase a 300 Series console, the configuration of the fader modules supplied is set at the factory. The...

Firstly, yes Jordan, the 300 series console is meant to fold. That's why it has a hinge.Second, I would suspect that the linked Control Booth thread (where oddly I said the same thing I am about to say) was exactly what you needed CarrollArts.Each tile (group of 24 sliders) can be mapped to...

Short answer is that if it wasn't broke they didn't need to fix it.Unterminated DMX can cause a number of very specific problems. If you aren't seeing these problems, then a terminator is just a precaution.

Yep. Solely a consolodation move.Though Genlyte purchased Strand in '06 it wasn't until Philips bought Genlyte that Strands time in California was limited.Lots of people got hurt by this. If you are a praying type, keep the 40 or so former Strand employees in your prayers.R

...the Strand operation in California is now kaput.As of end of business today, Strand is no longer a California company.I doubt very much that many of the people that I worked with there will ever read this but you all should know that there really was a hard working core of individuals...

These parts will be gold.I personally packed all the refugees of the SLD parts when they were shipped to Dallas and frankly they are not prepared.If you have working parts find someone that can't replace their whole system and make them an offer.

S21 is not a 'shoebox' type dimmer. It is a dimmer strip.The 'shoebox' dimmer from Dallas is the LightPak or the Hedgehog as I like to call it.It only comes with one output but it can be just about whatever you want it to be (within reason of course).

Short answer is that it isn't a Channels issue as there minimum channel count is 100 (really 300 but don't get me started on that....).The process for connecting them is quite painless....hook them together using VERY short CAT5 cables. Then use the mapping feature that I couldn't remember...

House Light system and Dimmers are Strand.Spent the better part of the last two years getting that together....of course I didn't get to finish it.R

Strand Palette series or the ETC ION would be the two to start with, but it will as icewolf points out come down to price range and what you can get a demo of.Not sure if John Grimshaw from Bytecraft ever makes if to NZ from Australia, but he'd be the guy in that neck of the woods to talk to...

If it folds it's a 300.It's been a few months since I had to think about this, but I believe it is under SETUP/CONSOLE SETUP and then it's TILE SETUP.I most likely have the path wrong, but that's the general idea. The complete manual will have it (and now that you know what you are looking...

YOu might ask this question at Strand-dev.com. The boys that wrote the software for the Marquee are there. They might know a trick or two that might be useful and fun.

Supportability. The MX is getting quite long in the tooth and if you have a major problem, I can put you in touch with one of three people that could fix it...maybe. SmartFade is going to be around for awhile. Besides, many districts have a 'use it or lose it' attitude toward this kind...

LED strips would make all the differnce in the world I think. But, unless he has a rich uncle.....