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Search Aliexpress for RGBWC COB and you will find plenty of examples, e.g. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004189042700.html (although the LED die arrangement on that is interesting with the whites in the middle and the colours widely spread in a ring round the outside. Good luck getting a well mixed colour out of it.)

If you can do 2 flashes from different directions that also helps sell the effect. I was doing "Little Shop of Horrors" earlier this year and the stage was almost entirely lit with LED pars, separately flashing 2 groups of them to full white with instant release (in Avo-speak) gave some reasonably convincing lightning on a darkened "nighttime blue" stage.

It was a known problem with them but they didn't all do it. Does that one have a timer function, can't remember, but if it does that's one way round the problem.

Yes it does some complicated energy usage calculations to detect fluid out which didn't always come out with the right answer at low output settings. Are you using the recommended fluid as that affects it. Otherwise could be lower output than expected due to blockage or pump spec. There's no calibration for the fluid detection.

If you google for "double drop" screen or "double motor" screen you will find some standard products of the double drop type where the screen casing drops down on cables e.g. https://www.sapphireav.com/Sapphire-Smart-Move-4m-43-Two-Motor-Electric-Projection-Screen-Approx-Case-Dimensions-L-4317mm-x-H-250mm-x-D-170mm_p_524.html

I don't think there is enough info to tell on the website, you need to know the focal length of the lens to know how wide the view is. I would say, I had some of the previous version of this camera and it had a really bad delay on the image - about half a second. This made it really difficult to operate the ptz, and also no good for imag. They may have fixed this in the newer version. With those cameras (which I think were 20x optical) you could get a head & shoulders shot from 30m but it wasn't the sharpest at that distance

You can select fixtures on the 31-60 handles by holding Avo button while you press the blue swop button, e.g. Avo+1 selects 31.

You won't find solderable HDMI panels because the connection needs really close tolerance for the HDMI signal to keep working.

Certainly sounds like interference but you need to work out whether it is affecting the monitor itself or the incoming sdi feed. Do you have a different type of monitor you could test in that location? Alternatively in this sort of problem I've had success by putting an SDI isolation transformer in line with the video cable but they are an expensive thing to try out when you don't know if it'll work.

No. As you say A is bad but all the others are fine. It isn't RF that's the problem, it's the chopped up mains waveform which comes out of a dimmer.

Why are you thinking this might be necessary? This is a bit of a departure from the original question which was about the venue equipment failing due to being plugged into dimmed power outlets. (these surge strips are a waste of money in my opinion anyway)

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Mp60 are not very bright. Chauvet ovation are nice but probably not worth the extra cost for your situation. I'm surprised you find the slight steps of 8 bit dimmer a problem - even if you went 16 bit you couldn't control it from a simple controller, you'd have to switch to 8 bit mode anyway. So I'd recommend getting more of what you already have.

I think I must work on events on a lower plane to you guys because having any type of food/catering provided is the exception rather than the rule.

It sounds to me like they are worried that you will plug their venue LED fixtures into a dimmed power outlet. So they are hoping that by banning any interaction with their hardwired power outlets and forcing use of separate extension cables, this (expensive) problem will not occur. If you want to bring in a dimmer pack that's your problem what you do with it as long as you don't mess with their fixture wiring. As Tony says above it sounds like your communication with the venue management is not very good - if you could improve that you might find other solutions.

They do have a valid point - it is true that powering LED fixtures off a dimmable power source can damage the electronics. So it sounds like they are trying to stop venue hirers messing with the venue's installed equipment and potentially plugging them into a dimmed power source. Although their solution to this sounds a bit clunky. In a venue with a permanent crew or used by experienced crew, a mix of dimmer and hard power outlets (or switchable dim/hard power) is often found but it relies heavily on the crew to use the right sort of power for the fixture and I've seen mistakes made and fixtures damaged even with experienced crew. What they should probably do is have some specified and clearly marked sockets on the rig for hirer's brought in equipment rather than using extension cables.

You definitely shouldn't connect pin 1 to earth/casing in the cabling but some products (incorrectly) have it connected inside the fixture. In this case the missing cable screen as in Sunray's fault would not cause a loss of DMX as the ground continuity would be kept via mains earth. Other products I have seen use a 100R resistor between pin 1 / system ground and earth which is slightly more tolerant to mains faults.

Yes sorry typing on my phone is too slow... According to avo troubleshooting page the tt2 does have spare dnx chips https://www.avolites.com/support/titan-troubleshooting/

Almost certainly damaged DMX transceiver chip on the TT output, sending one-legged DMX.

I believe this isn't possible on the QuickQ consoles. They are designed to be a low budget range of consoles sitting below the main Chamsys range (which can do multi-celled fixtures). As suggested, contact Chamsys to see if there is a backdoor way of doing it - then update us here as it's always useful to know this sort of thing.

The thing with HMRC is, they take the position that if there is any doubt then it's PAYE. If you need to ring up and ask - it's PAYE. If you use their online checker - it's PAYE. I don't think a lot of it would stand up in court if it came to that, but they seem to be hoping that they can frighten everyone away from self employment without actually doing too much enforcement.

Ah I see what you mean. I just took the period of time as information about the required commitment. So what you are asking is, would HMRC link a job advert with an invoice and use it to prove that the job should have been PAYE. I think this is very unlikely, but I guess possible if they are doing an in depth investigation on you.

I know someone who has a full time 9-5 job and uses their holiday days (and weekends) to go and work events, with the approval of their employer (they value the extra skills gained) - obviously this limits how much you can do and there is a definite concern over the effect on your paid job. Many events would typically involve 9am get in through to a late finish so you aren't going to be doing another job those days. You may be able to work a flexible 4 day week and use the extra day for events - there are ways to do it. In my situation I am my own boss for the 9-5 job so I work that round going to do events.

In my opinion, you would invoice an amount for doing the whole job and that would be fine. My accountant has always advised not to state hourly rates or times on an invoice but just to invoice your charge for doing the job. HMRC would like to make everyone think that everything should be PAYE, but until they have the legal precedence behind them to back that up, I think it's not the case yet.

That's true - you won't be designing the lighting rig or running the show straight away. But if you know your way around a DMX system, you'd probably get to be a lighting tech on shows if you find the right production company, which is all interesting stuff too - and once you've proven your ability the opportunities to design or operate will start to come along.