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Pity it wasn't an old skool alarm,at best puling a wire out would bring up a fault condition(unless you had a spare end of line resistor) or more likely  set the  bells  off.

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(with about 40mm of thread buried in the softwood, it seems to hold just fine

If you've threaded the wood a drop of superglue will help strengthen the thread

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tennis ball idea, what about making some sort of blow-pipe affair out of some 25mm PVC conduit?

you've just brought back a child hood memory,the gas pipe bazooka.Couple of foot of gas pipe, a powerful spring,and tennis balls for ammo

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I thread some fairly thin paracord through a tennis ball and would throw the tennis ball over the beam and then pull the spanset over.

tree surgeon mate of mine   uses a  bow an arrow ,how much space you got between the beam and roof and how good a shot are you?

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Yes, you can do this. I

was how the old police radios worked,control in our area was at the top of the fm broadcast range,and the coppers in the field was on,from memory around 140Mhz

Is "best value" still a thing within local authoritys? was a handy way of getting around the cheapest quote mentality.

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Council employee orders £500,000 of equipment from his brother's company..." 

Essential quality's if said employee  has ambition of becoming an MP

Ashtray holder for vape pen

just to add to above,tried 3 different browsers and the same thing,first couple of results have images,but then text.

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Anyone else getting this, or is it just me

it aint just you.Been happening for a few days here.

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If you get a DMX shield and an Arduino, and you really only want 6 channels, and you know what levels you want, it's about 10 lines of code to make something which has the levels hard coded into the program.

And only a few more to read the analogue ins   to  set the  6 outputs levels,,6 pots wired between +v and 0v with the wiper to the  analogue ins  and youve a basic desk.

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I were there.  Getting stoned on passive smoke

Sorry about that.For me the most impressive floyd lighting effect was at docklands in 89. they had  some heads on a track so they could be moved,nothing unusual,until they fired up the second beam and these large black boxes looked like they were walking.Anyone remember the balsito girls at wembley in 86?

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It would be a pretty poor job if something that has an XLR mic Level output on it and intended to be plugged into a mic level input on a mixing deskwas not designed to cope with 48V phantom power and to be honest I have never given it any thought

Some ribbon mics,especially older models don't like it up em

european 230v lamps on a uk 240 v supply?

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The only PiTA is that the outputs on the unit are 24pin D connectors so will need some soldering to make up adaptor

The hardest bit being the 25 pin  d sub,however you can make life a bit  simpler by buying a fully wired 25 pin to 25 pin lead and chop it in half

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Actually, I think you’ll find the OP is asking for an analog to DMX adapter,

yea all depends how you read the question

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a din analogue to DMX adapter?

  as you say requires a  multiplexer,but

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recently come across some analogue dimmers

seems to suggest  they want to get them to work  on DMX

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din analogue to DMX adapter

the magic adaptor is called a d-mux for example  https://www.thomann.de/gb/showtec_multi_exchanger.htm

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a PCB will cost between $10 and $50 per board

I'd be looking at changing your supplier,only yesterday I ordered 5 double sided  boards,about 2"x3" for around 30p each ($2 for 5),the P+P was more expensive than the 5 boards, even the paypal charge was more than the cost of 1 board.All in the total order came to  around  a fiver ,or just over a quid a board.

whats wrong with cable trackway?yea it can be a ballache to put out,but much quicker than   a bloke and a shovel and about the same cost to hire as a tank of diesel for the mini digger,added bonus 's are your cable wont need jet washing after the out and when you forget that extra  cable no need to start digging again

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Why do you have doubts?

because a plug is designed for flexible cable,swa is defiantly  not flexible.

5 hours ago, sunray said:

In the case of the described socket we use a SWA to the first distro,

so swa into a plug? Hows that work and comply then?

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  • dedicated HV (maybe even EHV) assets will be needed.
  • A rural location a long way from existing infrastructure and with no other large users of power near by to share infrastructure with.

   

   

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If your going to be firing triacs with your opto why not use an opto with the zero crossing built in,something like

https://cpc.farnell.com/on-semiconductor/moc3061-m/optocoupler-z-x-triac-driver/dp/SC12306

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and greater consideration of alternatives.

which are?

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the details of this change in the regs haven't been thought through.

government thinking thinks through,never going to happen.So we force all heavy pant equipment to either use normal more expensive diesel,increasing the cost of construction, or get them to switch to electric.So wheres the electric coming from to recharge these machines that are often used  in the middle of nowhere,I know lets ship in a diesel generator to run overnight to charge the plant.

The clips that hold the lens tube of 264's in place  have a nasty habit of breaking if theirs a budget for replacing stuff due to health and safety issues.