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Just a quick question, im obsessing over trying to find matching LED cans to fill out the existing rig, particularly because I want a good colour match when I program them all together, are my worries unfounded though? I have 2 differing fixtures that colour match quite well (cant see the difference) using the palletes on a FLX desk, should I assume this is unlikely to be an issue? im not familiar with standardisation or "indexing" or rgb if thats a thing. thanks

Thanks for the replies chaps, ill do a little latency testing. The build your own system sounds fun, I would have to do it myself as we don't have an electronics course anymore, great of you guys to offer the design.

Hi, so I am working at a sixth form college, trying to make the most of an under equipped little theatre, I have a 1001 things to buy not least of which is a talk back system of some sort. Unfortunately we need lights more than we need talk back but considering we all have Chromebooks or laptops it would seem totally reasonable to have 1 in each wing with a headset with a long cable, 2 or maybe 3 more Chromebooks in the control room for sound lx and my trainee DSM! What issues am I going to have that I haven't yet thought of? I use discord a lot to talk to friends worldwide and have found it pretty stable and reliable really, at least more usable than no talk back system at all, so what do you think good plan? bad plan? thanks

Thanks for the info Don, the powering up order didn't occur to me and while I dont think that was an issue I will definitely have it in mind in the future.

Yes I quite agree hippy, unfortunately in in an educational setting and while I could maybe raise the cash for the cable they also need new profiles, some stands, new FOH cabs some backlighting a talkback system, more dancefloor, some stands and tbars, honestly its endless. 😄 It has been fun doing much with little again though, maybe in time.

Hi Edward I have had a development, I moved the wireless DMX transmitter to the dimmer room (next to stage) instead of the control room and suddenly everything seems to be responding correctly, this suggests that led parcans will run on a suggestion of DMX while moving heads will balk and refuse to play ball, even on the same data line! I don't trust this development for 1 min so I will prod it all into failure (if I can) and then apply your suggestions. Thanks for your help (fingers crossed)

So, I have been having strange issues with my rig since I started this job, it comprises of a couple of switch packs, 4 betapacs and some grafted on LED fixtures, ledj pars, etc and 3 mismatched moving heads, cheap stuff, 2 are Stairville, worst of all there are maybe 10+ ADJ wifli units, one per bar, one on each boom, one at the desk etc. I found one wifly to be faulty (couldn't control a boom) so I ran a DMX line which fixed the problem, proving out my fault finding there at least. The current issue is that I cannot (fully) control the moving heads, one has pan and tilt but no lamp, the other on the same bar has lamp but no control however there are also 3 led parcans ON THE SAME DMX LINE that work perfectly well, the 3rd moving head is on a different bar with a different wifly unit, I have no control there at all. Ok, here is the kicker, yesterday I had all 3 working perfectly without fault 🤮 literally the only change between then and now is main breaker power down and up, I also had this same no control state maybe 2 weeks ago and not having a single clue why I didnt fix it but it did however fix itself somehow as yesterday they all worked fine. As they are on different wifly units im suspicious of the desk Zero flx s24 but it seems stable, no glitching, it maybe the wifly sender but it doesn't affect the pars, it could be 2.4ghz interference but again doesn't affect the pars, it seems the only thing I can effect them by is a powercycle, that makes no sense for 3 different fixtures. The only thing in common really is the desk, im not totally up to speed on it and it has a patch I didn't do but I guess I could go for a save nuke re-patch attempt, I have maybe a week and a half until the rig will be in use again, also the rig inst easily accessible due to seating rake, scaffold tower so its not straightforward to climb up there and stick a cable in AND because its installed on wireless there isn't really a DMX ring so much as a few spurs so tapping a bar into the existing data circuit is a real pain. Anyway, I invite speculation as a 35 year user of DMX and moving lights I am finding this little awkward rig to be a real pain. cheers

Thanks for the info Bryson, sounds like if I can score some 200w fixtures ill have plenty of punch, they will largely be used as open white front of stage cover for basically everything, the cantatas are completely underwhelming compared to the LEDJ washes they have in the boom positions. Thanks for your input.

Hi guys, new to the forum, not to the industry, however I have been out for a while and im not up to date on LED fixtures. I have inherited a partly tungsten rig that is awful to access and the few foh profiles (cantatas) are prime candidate for a swap to LED, unfortunately I have no idea what wattage will be needed to perform the job of a 1.2k lantern, preferably a little brighter, on par with maybe a clean tungsten source4? I am aware of ETC's selection but the budget is inevitibly going to have me looking at a lesser product. Same question for 1k fresnels if possible. thanks