alistermorton

OOI from where?

A good first port of call would be lights4fun. Dimming from a betapack might not be very successful. If you can find a string that requires a low voltage DC supply you could use a DMX LED PWM dimmer to control them. I've used these cheap LED dimmers from ebay to control strings of 10mm LEDs which I've wired myself quite successfully. Alternatively, could you use warm white LED tape? I know for a fact that those dim with the above dimmer.

Well it's all down to the fluid, guv.

I found a test manual for the MX which uses the same panels as far as I can tell, which has confirmed some of my initial guesses, insofar as it uses CMOS analogue multiplexers (these, BTW, are a convenient way to implement a matrix keyboard using only 3 control lines - Reset, Clock and Data). It also appears to use a dedicated off the shelf keyboard/display control chip, but whether there is one per panel or a shared one on the main PCB I haven't yet ascertained. EDIT: Now I've read the manual, it has circuit diagrams. Although they're for the MX, from my point of view this may suffice, as the fader panels are what I'm interested in. I found the manual on the Theatrecraft site. My thanks to the curators.

I'll give that a try - thanks.

Does anyone have the schematics for the GSX/LBX era strand consoles? They shared a number of "tiles" of controls. I have a cattled LBX which is being kept for spares (we still use at least 2 GSX on small shows) but it would be interesting to see how difficult it would be to interface a fader tile to an aduino or teensy. Thanks.

Not me, but Minack installed a load of viking led pars - might be worth a look?

Many years ago I saw it dispensed direct from the keg using a standard car-tyre style foot pump to pressurise. Not being a lager drinker (even back then, in my yoof), I've no idea what it tasted like but it looked the part in the glass. Well, at first, anyway. However, I've had German lager served straight from the barrel into the glass and that was great without extra blanket pressure.

Also - if you still want fire breathing, you could consider a high power narrow beam LED lantern behind a very small (radio controlled?) fogger, so the par can beam illuminates the fog as it exists, giving the impression of smoke and flames.

Last mouser order I placed showed in stock UK and was fulfilled from Germany too.

Ours does the same. Strangely, one that we had on loan while ours was being serviced was quiet. I suspect this means the air pump is getting worn and needs replacing.

The spec page for that amp specifically mentions driving an 8Ω cabinet.

Ah - sorry, I was thinking at crossed purposes.

Is it worth trying a version of DOS - it's still out there as an open source project.

The iPhone without 3.5mm phones socket take a pigtail that converts from lightning to 3.5mm. EDIT: e.g. here is the first one a quick search turned up.

I wondered what he was going to do when he retired from football punditry.

I'd certainly agree with that view. Our Ion is about that age and is exhibiting failure to boot problems and will have to go back to ETC. The Strand 300 it replaced gave reliable service for over ten years (possibly 15) before starting to show its age.

Well, well; interesting. I only picked Charlotte as my step-grand-daughter is named Charlotte. I guess it's a sort of familiarity/confirmation bias and bears out the problems inherent in simply guessing.

Exactly so. However ... I'd stick my neck out and guess at Charlotte and Frederick?

Charlie is often a contraction of Charlotte. Freddie could be Frederica?

I'm sorry, I have a cold.

Quite - what gender could you assume for the names Robin and Kim, for example?

One of the ETC staff at Plasa did say that they are developing a "proper" supply for the S4 mini which will take hard power and DMX and do proper smooth 0-100 dimming and it is due to be announced RSN.

Don't get me wrong, Jon, I think you go the extra mile supporting your customers. Hope I didn't come across as thinking otherwise.

Zero88 are stuck between a rock and a hard place, here. They're doing everything they can to continue to support a technology (floppy disks) that is as good as dead and buried, on consoles which they haven't manufactured for some time, but soem peopel aren't able to make use of the resources they supply. This isn't the fault of Zero88 but I can see how for an end user it's frustrating. That said, I can understand the frustrations of some end users, especially if they are in some corporate (or educational environment) where IT is centrally administered and connecting your own unmanaged device is a sacking offence (and lighting control consoles do get used in very corporate and educational environments of course). It's all very well for those of us with the luxury to do what we like to our machines to say "Just install this tool and do this" if the machines on the network are locked down and centrally administered, as they may well be in some environments (whether they should be is another discussion). For example, in my day job, most users cannot install any software to their own machine, it has to be installed from a central point via a remote installer, even details like the printer they can use is centrally controlled, and they do not have access to removable drives.