W. Harris

I agree Christie support is great. I recently bought a discontinued christie projector from ebay without any instruction manual. I contacted their technical people in Canada and they emailed me the complete specs, user manual and service manual. Using this information I was able to find someone on Ebay selling the exact remote for the projector. Christie even took time to discuss with me a keystone problem caused by the projector having to be mounted just inside our village hall proscenium. This meant we had quite a tilt on it in order to project onto the back wall of the stage.

Hi Bruce,I have been using PCStage for the last 10 years with the full interface. Last year it developed a fault which so far I have been unable to fix. At age 75 I can't bare the thought of trying to learn something new, especially as the PCStage is very similar to my experience lighting my school's shows using a 20way 2 scene preset dimmer board. The local drama group I do lighting for use their village hall which was fitted with 30 channels of DMX controlled lighting but no controller. If your PCStage is still available I would be keen to purchase it as a backup to the one we have. I believe it only operates up to 36 channels which is plenty for our needs as there are no fancy LED fixtures just basic spotlights, and a 3colour cyc. Thanks Wayne

Hi Gerry and all,I have been using PCStage since 2011 at my local village hall which was upgraded in 2010 with Lottery money. When I joined in 2008 it had 18 strand dimmers operated by a 2 scene preset DMX board, 4 strand patt 123's and 2 strand patt 23's. The main lighting on stage was 6 150watt domestic lights. I was asked to advise about re-equiping the hall and asked for another 2 six channel dimmer packs this brought the total to 30, a 30 way patch panel, 10 way F.O.H. bar, 10 way No1 (on stage) bar, 6 way No2 bar, 3way Cyc. batten and double 1 way dip trap. They also installed a new four speaker PA system as well as wired comms between stage and lighting box. I used PCStage with my Vista laptop for several years until my local drama group decided to invest in a re-conditioned desk top computer. This had Windows 7 installed and PCStage seemed to work ok. Unfortunately two years ago it packed up and we discussed replacing it. Then Covid happened and the hall was shut down. I took this opportunity to buy another re-conditioned desk top which came with Windows 7 64Bit. PCStage seemed to load ok and ran, but as soon as I connected the PCStage box via its USB cable to the computer all the stage lights came full on, which was a bit of a shock. For the last year I have been trying to find a solution to this problem. At the moment both David Buckley and Gerry have been trying to help me solve it. As far as I can tell from the computer messages the box is working correctly. It seems to be a problem with installing the driver files, which I have been unable to solve at this time. I have been considering buying another cheap computer running only Windows XP 32Bit.Wayne