Recent content by malsell

I haven't seen the chauvet 350 spots so I don't want to fully comment for/against them. I personally like the 700's because of their versatility, andvhow much easier it is to work on or change a gobo over the elation 15r. That being said, the 15r is still a good light and has been trustworthy...

Speaking from what experience I have, the mac 101's and 301' are garbage for rentals. The 101 is mostly plastic and I have replaced 4 bodies in the last couple of months. One or two "dings" and the plastic head snapps off right at the yoke on the tilt motor side. 9/10ths of what we use are...

My suggestion would be no matter what you pick, make sure you have some type of optical isolation from your controller. I had an opto-iso come back from a concert "winter tour" with one output completely burned and all the other outputs having issues because a cheap Chinese light shorted out...

You could check these out, but I don't know how well they work:LED replacement for GE 13224 - Q6.6A/PAR 64/2P-13224

A lot of great advice here. I know we typically use Rosco 119 and/or Lee 203 for Color correction on par bars. As stated previously, cross shooting your pars, setting a horizontal spread to the lamp, and a good silk to pull the light more horizontally will help out a lot.

I have only been using it a short time, and I know my needs may be different than yours, but I keep Cue and Int on layout 2 and fx on Layout 3. I think one of the great things with this software has been the ability to customize the layouts to fit the need of what ever you are doing. I only...

No problem. Glad it helped.

Qwe don't have any vari*lites at work for me to really do any digging, but from a controls standpoint, generally an additional capacitor would be a "noise" filter. If your cable and console are working on another lamp, I would say it is issue with the dmx decoder. Woodj is stating the dmx board...

30/50 would be right for single/3-phase

I have to agree with what has already been stated, but I will add the following:I know all of our gel frames are either just powder coated (painted) or plain metal. I know when powder coat gets hot, it re-melts and can become plasticy or rubbery at times and looks like something different...

I don't think it would be a software issue as the light performs it's self test and functions. I would first look at the DMX import board and then then connection to the main PCB. We had some Elation Platinum Beam 15 R Pro's out on a rental, that took 120Vac across the DMX thanks to a light...

In my opinion, the NEC is a valuable tool, but most things can be reference by various smartphone apps. Most people don't have a clue, or a care for that matter when it comes to the electrical code, checking amp draw, securing cables, etc. From 1997-2001 I worked for a company that built and...

Thank you everyone for your advice. Well, I have decided for now just to go ahead and get the MagicQ DMX Full for now and then expand with the full pc wing down the road. It seems like that's going to give me the most flexability and bang for my buck. As far as using what work has or charging...

I know having a pc wing would be awesome, but if I spent $3000 on something that ends up as a toy and possibly not used more than a handful of times the wife would kill me. Don't get me wrong, I see the value of the wing and wished I could just drop the money on one, but just can't at this time...

I have been looking at the enttech devices, the problem is that most of the software I have found that work with linux, only QLC, QLC+, and MagicQ work with it and MagicQ will shut down at 5 hours and I will have to restart it. I am really trying to stay under $500 total. I guess I need to...