Vintage Lighting Strand Century Micro-Q
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BillConnerFASTC
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And it still operates? Astounding. Late 1970s. Belongs in a museum.
I had one for a few years at my 2nd space, but it was 33 years ago.
As I recall it was a 2 scene desk, so 2 banks of faders with a cross fader handle. OR you could record cues from levels set on the upper row of faders and then run it in cue-to-cue mode, but not both at the same time. Cannot recall, but it might have had a very basic black and white monitor. Analog control output, 0-10 volt, DC, had round Amphenol 32 pin control output connectors. Might have had a 5-1/4" floppy drive.
Mine is still sitting in the shop at Litetrol Service, who I would recommend calling if you have any technical questions, or God forbid, want to get it fixed. 516 681-5288, Steve Short.
If and when the school finds a need to replace it, you can get adapters and convertors from the current DMX standard output to the 0-10v DC signal the dimmers are still getting. Litetrol would be a good source for that gear.
JChenault
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I used one many years ago so this is probably rusty.
It does record presets and you can run cue to cue by moving the horizontal slider back and forth to move from one cue to another.
I seem to remember ( extremely fuzzy here) that when you recorded a cue, you only recorded the changes ( IE a tracking console) - but if you jumped to a cue, you did not get all of the changes, just what was recorded in that specific cue.
It does record presets and you can run cue to cue by moving the horizontal slider back and forth to move from one cue to another.
I seem to remember ( extremely fuzzy here) that when you recorded a cue, you only recorded the changes ( IE a tracking console) - but if you jumped to a cue, you did not get all of the changes, just what was recorded in that specific cue.
I don't know if we are going to fix it because we are getting a new system over the summer if we do thanks for the info
Yeah I'm pretty surprised it's still working to be honest it's hanging on by a thread
I will be able to get pictures tomorrow if you want specific ones just let me know
I will post them as soon as I get them tomorrow
TNasty
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"Don't Touch This"
"Don't Touch These"
"Don't Touch Fuses"
Man I love all the "Don't Touch" propaganda that's stuck all over the darn thing.
Pretty impressive. I used to think that loading Windows 7 onto an old Fujitsu Windows XP tablet where I had to install Windows through my desktop because of the tablet's hardware limitations was impressive. I've truly relearned the term "Impressive" this evening.
"Don't Touch These"
"Don't Touch Fuses"
Man I love all the "Don't Touch" propaganda that's stuck all over the darn thing.
Pretty impressive. I used to think that loading Windows 7 onto an old Fujitsu Windows XP tablet where I had to install Windows through my desktop because of the tablet's hardware limitations was impressive. I've truly relearned the term "Impressive" this evening.
The thing is pretty sketchy so I don't like people messing with it hence the don't touch anything and that thing is hanging on by a thread
Glad to help
This is essentially a 24 channel, 2 scene console. There is no recording module for recording levels into cues and playing them back. The upper switches took a channel off 2 scene control and controlled directly on the independent fader. Had there been a memory module (record button, etc) you would set to independent, set a level and press record.
The slider assembly is a patch panel, assigns the 39 ?, dimmers to the 24 console faders. Didn't know Strand made one of these, never seen this version.
On the back of the console is a large and a small Amphenol style connector(s), with the large being the dimmer control and the smaller being house and non-dim control. Odd size, a typical Strand would be 32, or at least the versions I've seen.
Curious, is this control console functional ?, outside of house lights, non-dims, circuit breakers ?.
From the way it's been disassembled with attending photo's, I'd assume it's not working. If it is, I would not be taking it apart.
The slider assembly is a patch panel, assigns the 39 ?, dimmers to the 24 console faders. Didn't know Strand made one of these, never seen this version.
On the back of the console is a large and a small Amphenol style connector(s), with the large being the dimmer control and the smaller being house and non-dim control. Odd size, a typical Strand would be 32, or at least the versions I've seen.
Curious, is this control console functional ?, outside of house lights, non-dims, circuit breakers ?.
From the way it's been disassembled with attending photo's, I'd assume it's not working. If it is, I would not be taking it apart.
