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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
I've got one of the "lite" interfaces, which I haven't used in ages. 25 quid and it's yours... -
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
Christie projector remote
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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.