Upgrade help needed

[Doowop63]

Our venue has 96 dimmers and an etc express 125...no laughing please, we would like to add some leds and a couple of moving heads. Any recommendations on an upgrade? Extremely limited budget, may have to go used on console.

 

[JD]

Need a bit more info! The board is ETC, are the dimmers? If you want to add movers, do you have constant power available for them? (Remember, don't put a mover on a dimmer!) If not, you may want to pick up some mechanical relay modules for your dimmer rack (the kind that go "Click") as you will need circuits that do not have dimmers in line. As far as the board goes, you may want to explore a PC based solution as that would give you the biggest bang for the buck. If you plan on laying out some capital later to move to a dedicated board, they you might want to look for software form the same vendor who also builds boards so that the learning curve moving over isn't too bad.

 

[Doowop63]

Yes 2 racks of 48 Sensor dimmers. I do not think we have constant power. As far as board goes we have many people using and programming so we were looking for something comparable with and similar to our express

 

[hithere2]

The etc element will be the most comparable and least costly of consoles unless you went to a pc solution