Board Upgrade Part 2
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You didn't work at my school...
For a while there I worked for a principal with no principles.
Very few schools have as much money as you guys do. Hmm, thinking back I think I may have met you IRL 4ish years ago back when I was a student working at NCAC....
You are absolutely right...I am very lucky and blessed to be working for an affluent school district. Though the tricky part is keeping them out of their own way
It was a weekend rental...but MAN I would love to have some of those 54Ls to replace my rondels.
But to bring us back to the board upgrade concept, they (our talking heads in the admin) would need to replace/upgrade our 100 attribute/channel strand 300 desk.
That is unfortunate, it would cost about half that for me to buy you one and ship it to you! Though I suppose that depends on the model as there are three standard ION configurations. The configs vary in channel count, the lowest, which gives you 1024 channels is designed to compete with the Hog 1000, a mid range, and a high end, the channel counts of the mid and high I don't remember. (I think one is a 2048 and one is something else). The low end with a wing should price out under $10K USD here in the US.
Significantly better than the Expression3's 400, 800, and 1200 channel versions. Original Expression was 250, right? But the (non-original?) Concept was the exact same console, but did 500 channels across two universes.
Wasn't there a very earlier version of the Concept, that was nothing like a double-Expression, or was that the Idea? What ETC board did Candlelight Dinner Theatre in Chicago have around 1985?
I hate when manufacturers re-use product names! (You know who you are.)
Ion - as ETC puts it, can access channel numbering from 1 to 5000, with 1000, 1500 or 2000 DMX addresses.
As ea, channel can control multiple attributes, the actual console channel count is somewhat less important then the number of addresses available, as that becomes the limiting factor of dimmers, scrollers and ML's.
I'm still un-clear if Ion can be upgraded at a later date with additional addresses.
Steve B.
I actually asked that question last week when we had our demo and none of the ETC guys knew, but it sounded like they leaned towards no. However, it seems like something that a little update to the software could give you more channels. So, you shouldn't take my word for it, but that was the apparent consensus that I got.
