Recent content by Paul Livesey

Thanks for that, that might be useful from time to time, I will make up some power cables to deal with that.All the venues that I currently work at have 3 phase mains supplies s that will be OK, but as you suggest, for the odd small venue, some adapted power tails will be useful on one phase...

Just for info, the company that I bought these from had 76 for sale at a really good price too.I have seen them on the web at £425 but I got them at £100 each - couldn't believe my luck! they must have plenty left if anyone is interested.

Thanks for the advice everyone.I have ordered the Harting 16 pin plugs for the back of the dimmers, and I already have the Socapex sockets.I'm going to put 6 socapex sockets on a 19" 2U panel on the back of the flight case and then run those to the Harting connectors.Anyone know where the...

Problem solved, I think. On the front panel, there are three small grey plastic buttons, at least I thought they were buttons! They are in fact very small rotary switches, I had to use a magnifying glass to see, each has positions numbered 0-9.I can't test this out in my workshop because I...

Right, I think that I understand what a splitter does now, I guess it's in the title, but I wondered if the splitters where in any way "intelligent" and perhaps split say a 512DMX channel signal into parts e.g. 0-127 on the first DMX Out, 128-255 on the next and so on. But from what you say...

Another option is to use a pair of VGA over CAT5 converters, this will allow you to put the projectors up to a 150m away from the source. The ones I use are £74 a pair from CPC / Farnell at Preston. You can also run audio over them. The input device that would be plugged into your PC or...

Hello, I am a new member my main business is in PA work, but I do put a small amount of DMX lighting in to some events as required. Anyway, the lighting is becoming more of a feature of my work so I have bought up some gear:6 bars of 6 PAR64 1Kw with Socapex connectors. Plenty of Socapex...