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Just whole string will do. But www.awesomeledlist.com is expanding my horizons. Thanks for your help.

Hi, Can anyone recommend decent, fully-dimmable, (indoor) LED festoon / globe 'string' lights? Golf-ball type, DMX-controllable. Warm white ideally. 50m. Thanks.

Hi Tomo, That the fixtures (which I inherited and had avoided using) were at fault was what 'Mac' at Chamsys said on the phone when I first rang them. Later the solution was offered. Chamsys said they'd consider not enabling the relevant switch by default.

Problem solved independently by Tyler Lloyd at Chamsys Support and Ned Gibbons on Chamsys Programmers and Users FB group over the weekend. Turning off 'Always scan for RDM fixtures and patch' fixed the problem.

Hi Indyld, I should have said: I have already contacted Chamsys via support@chamsys.co.uk as well but no response yet. I'll phone them now. Thanks for replying.

Hi, On the Chamsys website they admit a s/w bug in QuickQ desks (they say in v9.0 and v9.1) which can cause sertain fixtures to 'flicker' via direct DMX. I was running v8.4 (installed on the desk when new) and every 30 seconds the 8 Chauvet SlimPAR 64 RGBAs in a rig where I work would flash briefly. Either on if off, or vice versa. It caused me a lot of trouble. Dimmers and Chauvet Colrado battens on the same universe were unaffected. Then I read that updating the s/w to v9.3 would fix this serious bug, so this morning I did that. THE PROBLEM IS STILL THERE. I've contacted Chamsys via their Knowledgebase chat system and asked to join the relevant Facebook forum, but had no replies yet. Has anyone else seen this fault and/or cured it? Any help gratefully received.

Can anyone recommend a company in or near London to repair an Elation Platinum Spot III? I'm based at Angel, Islington. It suddenly just went off one day; no display, no light source, nothing. An initial inspection shows the power supply PCB is receiving 230V AC but is not outputting the relevant DC voltage (36V I think it should be).

I work in a college with A-Level drama and dance students. I have been using two old MacBook Pros, each with 8GB RAM (just successfully Capital bid for £4K for a new one!): For exam shows drama teachers play back the projections in Powerpoint (including slides with videos with sound) from one MBP. Mini Dp-to HDMI wireless link to Dell 7760 projector on grid. I agree with Richardash 1981 re: Powerpoint for simple linear projection shows. Set up as he describes it just works. I do lights (hitting Go button on ETC Ion) with the left hand and sound from Qlab on the other MBP with the right. I know all three could be combined in Qlab, but the way things come together here, with amateur performers / scripwriters and cue changes right up to performance time, this is the best system for smaller, exam, shows. When we do the annual major production we use Qlab for video instead because of all the additional functions. Never had a crash in 20 years. Reading technician-v2's comment I might look at vMix next...

Did it fix it?