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Thanks for the advice everyone and I will take all that on board with due concern. Just to clarify, the School didn't directly ask me to come along. One of the other chaps from our group was brought in as he already had a bit of involvement with their setup, so I am just a helper! It was tasked to me to reach out for a bit of advice online. I was initially just meant to program the desk. I think the school's hope was that as everything was working a few weeks ago (to their requirements) prior to the PAT testing that it would be an easy enough job reconnecting and addressing everything. (Everything was still connected, just no response from the desk). I am indeed coming to the conclusion that the job may be beyond me and the safety concerns do ring alarm bells. The annoying thing is it feels we were fairly close besides the LEDs. I will mention about getting someone in and will put my fellow worker onto this thread so he can read your concerns. As the newcomer and underling to all this it's unpleasant to have to break bad news but I'm sure it's for the best. Enough of you are voicing the same issues. Thanks again (Also thanks Timsabre- That's in line with what we've managed to sort out so far and makes good sense. I will pass that on along with all the other advice in case it helps)

Hi all. I made a plea for help on 'The Control Booth' and the folk there were really helpful but said you all might have some more local knowledge and might be able to help. We've been asked to help a local School reconnect the Lighting in their Theatre and we're running into issues with their LEDs. They've lost their previous tech guy and all the lights were disconnected for testing, so we've been working pretty much from scratch to get it all back up and running. I don't have much experience (local Theatre group) but they really need the help for an upcoming Peter Pan performance next month. I'll try and explain the issue as best I can but still have some gaps in my understanding at this stage. The setup is as follows:- Showtec Showmaster 48 lighting desk 4x Trancension DDP-405 dimmer packs 14x Pulse Stagepar 108 6x Eurolite par 64 Waterfall effect light (Downstairs:- Star curtain Fogger 'Beamz' wash light DMX terminator) Pictures- https://imgur.com/a/sfMJTfb#DiGgQEk I'm used to a console where I can manually soft-patch lights (Z88 Jester) and have no real experience with dimmer packs, so things have become confusing. We've managed to get the Eurolite Parcans working with one of the dimmer packs but I'm out of my depth when it comes to the LEDs. As it stands we definately have some of them overlapping with the Parcans and it's rapidly becoming confusing. I was initially under the impression the LEDs were being powered from the dimmers but have been told that's not how it works. So I'm now lost when it comes to addressing them. I do think they were/are in 4 channel mode, as a scribble strip on the desk had channels 4, 8 and 12 reserved as control channels. The few LEDs we did have working seemed to respond that way, too. Assuming that's the case how would it be best to proceed? It's been suggested that I connect one fixture at a time into the console itself and note the channels used, which does sound like good advice. I just don't quite yet understand how the LEDs are wired up in the chain. Any help is very much appreciated. Time in the space is limited, so I need a decent plan of attack for next time I go in. I do realise I'm a bit out of my depth here but I'm keen to learn and really want to help the School. In the current climate the drama department has really suffered and the kids are losing interest in the Theatre. (You can find my original post on the Control Booth here, which may be a bit clearer :https://www.controlb...66/#post-426190 -I hope it's OK to put in the link. It seems pretty friendly between you all) Thanks in advance!