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I inherited a similar set a couple of years back. I stripped them down to parts and after a good scrub with soapy water and a scouring pad, I used Brasso! Replaced some of the wing bolts, bolts and nuts. Pretty good condition now and they haven’t gone rusty again!

Sounds like the RF board from a Band A device fitted into a Band E case. The electronics is designed to operate over 36MHz of bandwidth, that is the specified limits of the circuit. The circuit is tuned for the Band required - the specific R and C values are tabulated in the Service Manual. In addition, there is an EEPROM on the RF board that tabulates the frequency choices that the microcontroller presents on the UI and uses to programme the PLL on the RF board. To change the band you would have to swap the relevant Rs and Cs on the RF board (some very small SMD components under RF shields) and reprogram the EEPROM. The former may be viable if you have SMD rework capabilities. The latter is more tricky unless someone can share the Sennheiser service software for G2. I've consistently failed to find it on t'net (so would be grateful if anyone can share!). ETA: Apologies I'm actually talking with knowledge of the RX here, but I believe the equivalent applies to the TX.

If you're spending that money, +1 for the Zero88 FLX S24. You can programme the playback faders as single-cue submasters to satisfy your push-and-go wash requirements, but it has the power to lend itself to fancier stuff for your more advanced users. As @alistermorton recommends, it's "fixture" based rather than DMX-channel based (although you could go that way just by patching each fixture as a 1-ch dimmer channel but that really wouldn't be a sensible idea!). And development and support is here in the UK (thumbs up to @Edward- Z88 and @jonhole).

This any use unless you've already got it! https://www.manualslib.com/manual/2378674/Yamaha-P5000s.html#manual VR601 and VR602 but the schematic and parts list doesn't give any spec...

Great! Let us know how you get on. Worth watching some of those Zero88 training videos.

I don’t recognise that message - there may well be a soft button on the touchscreen under Beam that says ‘Create Auto Beam Palettes’ but I doubt you’ll get any with the fixtures you have. But with the fixtures selected I’d expect you to get Strobe on the first encoder under Beam. If not then I’d suspect the fixture definition for that light - but check Shape and Position and other pages of Colour to make sure it hasn’t been put under the wrong attribute! Also in the Fixture Schedule (from ZerOS 7.11 I think) I think you get a summary of the channels available on the fixture. With the latest 7.13 you could also take that fixture into an on-desk editor to check channel definitions (although this isn’t something I’ve had a play with yet!). This operation should be easy as pie. Select your fixtures, raise the intensity, select the colour (if you want to change it from default), select Beam and dial in the strobe rate. In syntax something like (say you have 4 of these lights as fixtures 1,2,3,4): 1 THRU 4 @50 COLOUR 3 BEAM <dial encoder with Strobe on it> RECORD <GO button or other flashing playback button depending where you want to record your cue> Want to save your showfile to USB stick then upload it here? Or on the Zero88 forum here: https://www.zero88.com/forum/forum/144-flx/ If we get really desperate I’ll build you a new fixture definition to play with.

Lots of FLX training videos here: Edward had scheduled a new bunch coming up over the next few months here: https://www.zero88.com/training#eventdates

Strobe should be under Beam rather than Colour. Intensity is either via syntax or the fader corresponding to the fixture number or, after pressing the Z key it’s the first encoder. If you have a fixture with more than 4 (colour) parameters, keep pressing the (Colour) button to cycle around chunks of 4. (Parenthesis because it’s the same for any attribute with more than 4 parameters.). For colour, rather than using the encoders, you’re probably better off using the colour palettes, mood boards or Lee/Rosco/Gam etc filter boards, or the colour picker if you’ve loaded a photo or image. Note ZerOS 7.13 just got released the other day. https://www.zero88.com/forum/topic/9541-zeros-713-released

What sort of venue? B-eye are more eye candy stuff so might be ok if you’re some sort of music venue and you shine them at the audience, but not the sort of thing you want for ‘proper’ theatre (of whatever genre) in general. No idea on these actual fixtures but ‘budget very limited’ applied to us all but expectations of ‘magic’ things usually exceed the ability to fund them adequately. Define your usage needs more and your actual budget then experienced folk here can make some educated suggestions rather than commenting on some random Chinese knockoff for an unknown use model.

"Gone" (to a regular 🙂

Before I bin them, I have 3 linear halogen lamps, 500W R7s, out of some Strand Coda/Nocturn floods. Two of them are the frosted type which are quite rare now! Suit CCT Minuette floods too. They are all "used" to some extent but all buzz out ok (around 9 ohms). Any use to anyone? Happy to post them to a BlueRoomer in the UK FOC. Just PM me. Regards, Kevin

This is a generic calculator we’ve spoken about before: http://www.nu9n.com/tpad-calculator.html

There are infrastructure costs too: DMX cabling and hard power to the rig points used. What lights do you have at the moment and are you looking to replace effectively one for one? I’m a bit sceptical about this type of refit. I’d expect to keep the best conventional and augment rather than replace with LED. With the likely budget the LED fixtures available will not match the optical abilities of existing fresnels and profiles and not the brightness of the parcans I see in the picture. To make a LED replacement acceptable a reasonably substantial budget (several thousand) will be required.

On the terminal I haven't found it and I think there is only one "series" of terminals - we have printer ones and non-printer ones. We bought the first direct from SumUp (that was a big mistake, they're incompetent at logistics) but the second from ToolStation. We have this type: https://www.toolstation.com/sumup-3g-wifi-card-reader-payment-kit/p56532 On website sales you can set up categories because that's how we do our merch etc but I don't see that on the terminals. The terminals we have have a fairly small and basic monochrome dot matrix display. Compare against the Square terminals where I know the hall have set up categories for beers, wines, tickets and the like and the screen is touch and a bit like you'd get on a low grade smartphone. I see none of that on SumUp. But happy to be told I'm being a wally and didn't look hard enough (but hopefully I'm not that daft...). Note with SumUp you're not allowed to do sales that are "future business": "The delay between processing a card transaction and handing out the product/service should be no longer than 90 days. If the delay is more than 90 days, your business falls into the category of "Future business" (e.g. selling concert tickets, when not through box offices)" https://help.sumup.com/en-GB/articles/3G8ZHjdgFZjmKWOmDWS52m-restricted-businesses

We use SumUp, although we are a small amateur venue not of your size. It's a pretty basic system. We've not had any reliability issues and one of the reasons we bought SumUp was the terminals are WiFi and 3G built-in so we can use them for various card sales outside and it gives us a level of connectivity redundancy. They seem reliable enough but pretty slow and pretty basic functionality - no sales "categories" just plain payment of an amount. The website is pretty limp too. The hall we use, use Square for other events including the bar and ticket sales. That seems to have much more functionality and whilst WiFi only (in the terminals, sure you could hotspot to a phone) I've not heard them report any major issues and that gets a lot of throughput. Sorry, probably more "round about" info than a direct answer to your question.

Hmmm I think that's just part of their custom flashpod I don't think it's a standard part. It's just a collet type of contact isn't it? Maybe you could post a photo? What's happened to yours has one broken or got electrical damage? LeMaitre don't list any parts like this on their website: https://www.lemaitreltd.com/products/pyrotechnics/firing-systems-hardware/holders-hardware-cables-accessories/pyroflash-holders-hardware/

Which make of flash pod? I’m not clear on what you’re looking for. The thread title says ‘connector’ but then you talk about a ‘little component’. Can you clarify? Try ‘lemaitre bulgin plug’ ?

It's worth giving ShowComms a call to see if they have anything left in stock. I get all of my G2 spares from there. I know they have less available now as Sennheiser have taken spares supply back in house, but they might be able help or advise. https://www.sennprospares.co.uk/shop/search?keyword=capsule Otherwise it's waiting for a non-UK frequency unit to come up on eBay to salvage the capsule from; that's certainly what I've done in the past, particularly as at the moment the UK spec G2 kit is going for good money. Had a hunt (as I'm sure you have) and these non-gen might get you by whilst you hunt for a real one? Could well be junk though I guess (but it is for a pub...!) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/302748535642 Sennheiser imply they have capsules for some of the G2 range. Availability is not clear though: https://spares.sennheiser.com/catalog/product/501290-skm-535-g2-a Worth having a dig under this search term at each SKM variant as capsules appear in some, like the above: https://spares.sennheiser.com/catalog/search?q=g2

Let’s hope the value side stays intact and we don’t see some big price hikes. That indeed could influence the buying decisions in favour of the higher end competition like ETC (and then another great British company goes to the wall). Watch this space…

I use a fair few of these in amdram with Sennheiser EW belt packs. They’re not too bad at all and at around £30 ea not too expensive if they get damaged. I fit mine so the capsule sits on the cheek about an inch and a half away from the mouth (about where the molar teeth start) to minimise any plosives issues. I don’t fit the pop foam that comes with them so they are very discrete. Also they are relatively sensitive (but also relatively noisy!) so I usually have my belt back sensitivity down on the -30dB setting even for the more ‘gently spoken’ actors! When you’re looking for headsets for theatre, you almost certainly want omni capsules not cardioid. Id recommend the double ear hook style over single ear. Micronic have an eBay shop if that’s easier for you. No relation other than customer for a few years. As others have said, CPC probably have similar offerings with their Pulse brand.

Fat Frog doesn't have Parking and the Grand Master rules all. Channel 48 is a vanilla "generic" channel on Fat Frog so you can't override it with for example a custom fixture definition that has Intensity default @FUL. Echo others that are nervous about a triac dimmer channel being used to provide hot power. Even at full I believe there will be some waveform distortion and I don't suppose the output circuit will be overly happy with the lamp strike of the mover.

No worries I was just being cheeky! 🙃 Yea flat batteries seem to cause all sorts of mayhem. Hope you get it behaving again!

Ah so you didn't actually read the manual I posted 😁 Section 2.7, page 13 [2.7 Return to Default Settings (Factory Settings)] That 1668 thing is enter Record Mode, 1423 is then the Factory Reset. Weird I know... Guess it's academic though as your front panel is dead... Jim...

Sorry I might be right off script here! These desks have a weird reset (that I never understood from the manual). This seems to be this sequence: RECORD+1,6,8,8 then RECORD+1,4,2,3 then SHIFT+REC/EXIT Does that help or have I missed the point completely!

Probably this one: https://www.highlite.com/media/attachments/MANUAL/50831_MANUAL_GB_V1.pdf