StuartS

Trouble with pairing one Chinese moving head with a wireless DMX receiver. When both powered, the receiver flashes green to indicate reception as the moving head stretches its muscles, but as soon as it has initialised the receiver starts flashing red and the head goes into ‘party mode’. The problem is that the only difference between receivers and transmitters of the integral plug type is the gender of the plug. The electronics is the same. If they see DMX electrically they go into transmit. Cheap moving heads are too keen to go into master mode and in this case it seems to override the presence of DMX, perhaps if it happens to initialise between DMX packets. Result - the pair are transmitting a rival wireless signal. So, is there any way to prevent signal travelling from the light to ‘receiver’? Diodes?

Has anyone thought to mount a WiFi surveillance camera on the head of a moving light so it can be used as a sight for a crude followspot? Obviously the position would be critical and the camera very small to clear the yoke, and powering it may be an issue. Perhaps manufacturers could install a USB power outlet on their heads.

You could look at the ETC Colorsource 20 AV. They have upgraded the Version 3 software to handle 80 devices so you have 4 pages of 20 faders. You need the AV version to get 2 universes.