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the stand has the spigot on it, I need the hollow bit (receiver?) to go on the light.

even easier to find ,10mm female to 8mm male,try your local indy motorcycle dealer and ask for a mirror adaptor

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8mm (or less) hole, and not enough metal to stand drilling it out to 10mm.

10mm male  to 8mm or 6mm female thread adaptor?

make yer own, wooden frame covered in white diffussion(#119 maybe) with leds inside,maybe have have clusters of random flashing leds at the  star points

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it's a single line with the desk in the middle so you should have a terminator at each end.

But  what value terminator as theres now 2 of em in the circuit, is it a simple parallel connection so 240 ohm at each end or is  there more to it?

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Big, simple, enough power for any small theatre job but getting long in the tooth.

if they are still capable of doing the job why change? If there looking a bit tatty thats nothing a tin of filler, bit of sanding and bucket of tuff cab wont  cure

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One unfortunate lad ended up with a sound akin to what you'd get if you threw a band down a long flight of stairs. It was a complete train wreck. 

wasnt owen fleek by any chance

xlr connectors with switching contacts like wot  jack sockets have.

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sockets with break contacts would be a great low-tech solution. My Google powers seem to be deserting me - any idea where I’d find such a thing?

You'll find  XLRs with built in contacts at the left end of the rainbow,just beside the pile unicorn manure. Time to add them to the wish they made thread I thinks.

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Spigot socket on the stand, half-coupler & stand-spigot, short length of aluminium scaff.

or a 35mm  cap thingy that has a threaded hole in it with  the half coupler bolted to it,but either way its gonna cost more than 20 quid

Not sure what size hammer you need to get it to fit a s4 junior,but if a full fat s4 is acceptable  https://norcostco.com/rosco-image-pro/

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ETI, anyone?

was more an everyday electronics reader,as that was all that was available in the school library,and then hobby electronics and coincidently the maplins mag.You can find most of the old mags over at   https://www.worldradiohistory.com/index.htm   ETI for example https://www.worldradiohistory.com/ETI_Magazine.htm

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And a vast choice of 5mm LEDs, only really needs two versions in each colour, a chep one and an an ultra bright one.

By that logic RS, farnell ,rapid etc must also be badly run, RS for example has nearly 100  5mm red leds to chose from.

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Switch Electronics is a legit business

Indeed,ive used them sevral time when  they've  worked out cheapest. Was just initially surprised  "maplins" were back stocking actual components,and then curious when I spotted the similarity between the two sites.

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Two different companies using the same Shopify theme?

dig down into the products and youll see both sites are identical, right down to the sku code

Bit of thread necromancy

https://pro.maplin.co.uk/

https://www.switchelectronics.co.uk/

similar?

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I imagine the rig was left powered but not illuminated so if fans were running I'd assume they are at EOL

if the lamps not on id expect any decent fixture to ramp down or turn off the fan ,and if the kit was left on  you've removed the biggest point of failure,powering up.

Id go the other way around,leave the existing  DMX alone and chuck the splitter on the DMX out of the last dimmer

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an eight way unit fed by two cables, in and out as part of a ring is conceptually the same as 4 double sockets in a ring - or am I wrong,

Nope your not wrong,the problem is with spurs off  the ring ,as it stands only 1 double or 1 single socket per unfused spur is permitted,and its because of this that 3 gang sockets are fitted with a fuse,to protect us from numptys.

im not disagreeing that such a beast would be dam handy,but to introduce such a beastie would require a change to the regs.Also apprentices would hate them,chopping the back box in would be a bugger of a job,those old cooker panels were bad enough.

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every double socket should have a 13amp fuse fitted in case it's fed as a spur and someone plugs two tea urns into it. 

26A aint to much over the rating of 2.5mm in most cases so not too much of a worry and remember we should only be drawing a maximum of 20A from double sockets anyways

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In what way is it different to 4 twin sockets ? except in neatness and ease of wiring.

none,but the luvly big book of rules  dont like it,hence why those 3 gang sockets are fitted  with a fuse,just in case there fed as a spur off the ring

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An EIGHT gang 13 amp socket for fixed installation use, not a trailing socket for extension leads. Useful when large numbers of sockets are needed. Two versions, one with a 13 amp fuse when it is desired to limit the total load, and one without any such fuse and rated at 32 or 40 amps in total.

An unfused 8 gang  would require a rewrite of the wiring regs making them  a bit pricey even if you never fitted one

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A software package that you can import your favourite audio file and EASILY set up cue markers alongside that file that you can then send to trigger specified cues your favourite LX desk, be that as MIDI or other protocol.

30 year ago a revox with the slide  syc function and a zero 88  sirus could do it fairly painlessly without the need for any computer assistance.

pressume youve tried
 

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If MagicQ is failing to start on Linux, try running it from the command line (with /opt/magicq/runmagicq.sh). If errors appear similar to the following:

libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

Then this is likely caused by your graphics drivers being built for a newer version of libc than MagicQ is distributed with. Try renaming /opt/magicq/lib/libstdc.so.6 to libstdc.so.6~ (this may require root) and running again; this will allow MagicQ to use the system version of libstdc.so.6. If this fails, rename the file back again and contact support.

 

https://secure.chamsys.co.uk/help/documentation/magicq/troubleshooting.html

wots the problem?

Does the ABTT pyro handbook still have a circuit diagram in the back to make your own pyro firer?