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I was only joking about competition. Vd install cable is like skinny mic cable, not 120 ohm. Good work with the barbed wire telephone.

Depends how well you get on with the audio guy. Perhaps I'm lucky who I work with...

Ah come on, if the cable works for sound it'll work for DMX over 50m.Indeed and I have done so with 3 full 100m of standard mic cable, most likely Proel knowing where it was sourced from. I don't know if it's relevant but this long run started at an opto isolated splitter and fed into another similar splitter as a buffer. We we were not aware of any glitching but we weren't exactly watching the remote display, it wouldn't have been a problem as long as there was some sort of sensible activity. Well if we are having a distance competition, I have run it down 1km of Van Damme install cable with no problem...

Ah come on, if the cable works for sound it'll work for DMX over 50m.

No, it will work fine. The only problem you might have is if there are any mic channels in the same cable with the gain cranked really really high, you can sometimes hear the DMX then.

"old age" is wishful thinking in my opinion. Never yet seen a fuse blow due to old age. Agree with the other 2 though.

Sounds like it. Basically it's just fluid getting into the block when it shouldn't so if the physics of how you had them set up allowed syphoning or gravity draining of fluid into the block, that would be it. Possibly if you lifted the machine a bit higher than the bottle, that would fix it. Most smoke machines don't physically stop the fluid pipe, they just assume that the fluid won't flow unless you pump it. But unexpected orientation of the machine can break that.

Manual says vertical jet and "keep in flat position" - what did you do with the fluid container when you had them firing horizontal? Could be a small amount of fluid dripping or syphoning through the pump if the rubber seals in the pump are dried out or worn.

There is basically a mic preamp, then a line driver / receiver hybrid, then a small power amp stage to drive the headphones. You should be looking in this last stage. Often its the volume control has been physically damaged, I'd check resistance on that first.

Good point, it is definitely not something you can just set up and walk away. Even just the youtube streaming element needs constant attention to keep it working.

My church does this also but a bit simpler. We have 4x panasonic aw-he40 remote cameras into a Blackmagic atem-1 mixer. This is streamed to YouTube live using OBS software on a pc. The cameras and mixer are controlled by a single operator (concentrating very hard) from a touchscreen running a vb.net app I wrote. It commands the cameras and mixer over ethernet. You can store preset positions on the cams or live control with a joystick, also do moves between the positions. See http://www.stjohnnewland.org.uk/video for an example of what we can get with this setup. As Jason says YouTube might pull the stream if you broadcast anything copyright, e.g. Movie clips etc. though we have only ever had this happen once in 2 years and it was restored when we cut back to live camera.

It depends if you want to have fixture status information on the console - if you do the console has to keep polling everything. Personally I am not sure it is very useful - it's probably left on because of the amount of menu diving you have to do to get it turned off (not sure how hard it is on Eos).

They are 12v motors

They are 1.8 degree

Any size 17 unipolar (6 wire) stepper should work here. Have you checked it's not the driver chips by swapping motor plugs around, they sometimes fail too. Also could be damaged wiring. It was unusual for the actual motor to fail. I'd be interested to know how many VR8's are still in operation out there. Seems like a long time since we were demoing them at Plasa.

Good question. I was wondering the same thing...

Though we do not like to talk about money, a quick phone call as Brian suggests may bring results. It is a lot harder to ignore a polite phone call.

No, useful info for reference I think.

Could you take some photos of the PCB's and ribbons? We are all guessing a bit as it seems nobody here's been inside one of these before.

Hmm tried again and powerpoint seems to work fine. I like the way you can produce different stage views using html, means we can create a words overlay screen for our web broadcast and also a different view for the band monitors.

OpenLP is a good idea if you are just showing song words. I know you said this is someone else's job but having the song words in a database makes assembling the service material a whole lot quicker than messing around with powerpoint. The only thing I don't like about it is if you actually need to show a powerpoint sequence on the projector (eg for a talk or something). You can embed the powerpoint and it'll show the first slide, but you then have to task switch from OpenLP to powerpoint to be able to advance through the slides. Unless I am doing it wrong.

What menu options do you get as you go through? It'll just be one of those. I have a few lights with this type of menu system and they normally say 3ch, 6ch, 12ch etc as the options

Interesting. Very coincidental timing (I presume) but just saw that Jem/Martin have released the new Glaciator Dynamic for CO2 free low fog, has anyone used one yet? I'd be interested to know how it compares to the old one. Maybe there will be a rush on refrigerated low fog machines... https://www.martin.c...aciator-dynamic

Yes, that's what I meant.

Hmm, it's an interesting question. Over the lifetime of the fixture, and including the full manufacture process and disposal /recycling, which would take more energy, tungsten or led? And which would be more polluting? I have seen plenty of pcbs being made, also led emitter manufacture. Per unit manufactured I would guess there's a lot less energy used than tungsten lamp manufacture. But I'm guessing.