alistermorton

I have a feeling you're right, Kevin. Same diameter certainly, and the beam angle range is (to all intents and purposes) the same.

Some things seem sort of reasonably priced, others are quite crazy.

Well it is for someone who comes to your posting looking for a pad circuit after you've posted a new image, though.

Lightspares claim to carry them at €60 plus carriage. Edit to complete the posting

Ah .... OK

I'd guess they should match or exceed the tap, so if the tap is 1W they should be 1W or larger?

Forgot to mention that the RC4 dimmers also have DMX out so you can hang any battery powered DMX kit off them too. Presumably others are similar.

Guess what prompted me, Bruce ;-)

Our rest and recuperate whoops I mean clean and refurb starts on Monday.

Not sure of others but the ones we have work on 6-36V which covers most of the bases. Same power as powers the load.

Look at Theatre Wireless or City Theatrical if you want it to work reliably, I'd say. We've used our RC4 (Theatre Wireless) wireless dimmers in costumes and props powered from a fag packet sized rechargeable battery pack with no problems.

I'll keep an eye on ours. We do 9 productions a year, each one running for a week and a half (roughly) and each one requiring a complete tear down and rebuild on a monthly basis. The fans in our Macs don't seem to be faring too badly so far (we've had them at least ten years, maybe a bit more) and hopefully the same will go for the LEDs and projectors etc, but we do have an annual pull down and clean of the rig, which can't do any harm.

The Elumen8 fixtures we bought do have fans, but so far we haven't noticed them intruding, and we have used the fixtures on full power for whole scenes. The casing and whole build of the fixture feels quite chunky and that may well be helping to get rid of the heat. TBF the fans in our ageing Mac 550s are probably noisier.

For comparison, we have a couple of elumen8 MP75 that we bought to try out. They're about 220 ex vat and are RGBW with a plastic micro ring fresnel lens, rather than being an LED "par can". They're (manually) focusable from flood to spot and subjectively they're anywhere between a 300W+ and a 1000W tungsten lamp depending on colour e.g. deep saturates like blues and deep reds they look brighter than a 1kW par can in a similar colour, but in paler shades like whites and straws they're nowhere near as bright. OK, maybe brighter than a 300W PAR56, but not quite as bright as a 500W fres, say. Edit to add link.

EOS/nomad will output show data over the network either when it's running "online" with a licence dongle, or when it's running "offline with viz" - are you in one of those modes? When running with viz it flashes all the levels from time to time to stop you using it to run a proper show without a a licence.

The chimp desk has looked interesting at the last couple of shows I've seen it demo'd. They reckon its in the FLX pricing region.

I wonder if "small claims" or "debt recovery" get similarly trapped?

Hard wired network, then. We had a show recently where the FOH mixing was done via an iPad connected wirelessly. Ubiquiti access points, worked great, right up until it didn't, when the iPad lost it's connection to the mixer and wouldn't reconnect even when the link came back up. Cue minor panic and sound guy having to leg it back to the physical mixer for the last half ot the act. Wireless is great until it isn't.

I can see multiline OSC cues having a use, yes.

I think you can "relegate" some settings away from the main cue property tab; if someone needs to change them they aren't exactly hidden. I think there's also something to be said for a button to switch from editing and running a show, so that all the superfluous stuff that you need when setting up a show but don't need when you actually run the show can be hidden.

I use prewait in qlab when I want to use the same trigger to start two cues but want one cue to be delayed relative to the other.

That sounds good, David.

We could probably use a few as some of ours are broken.

Something someone asked for recently in the Qlab group on farcebook seems quite sensible to me, and I don't know if you've implemented it in multiplay, so I thought I'd mention it. It can be useful to be able to mark cues as unaffected by the panic / emergency stop. In qlab the emergency stop by default fades and stops all running cues - I guess the same is true in multiplay - but sometimes you might want to leave a bed track or video projection up even when the panic button has been hit. Having a tick box on the cue to mark it as shielded could be useful. If you've already done this, then just ignore me :-)

Also had to replace lamp bases - small countersunk screw heads will disappear out of the way on the bottom of the lamp tray. The prelude and quartet fresnels that we had with knackered reflectors were refurbed a couple of years ago with new items from LightSpares in Germany. Not cheap, but very rapid turnaround and, realistically, khas sorted out the lanterns until we can no longer get the lamps for them.. Floppy lamp tray stays on the preludes are a perpetual problem, though.