andrewg112 Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Hello!Ive been using a Zero 88 Sirius 24 board for a few months now. Whilst looking at the specs of the board on Ebay, I found that it comes with a memory card and a VGA connector/converter. Our board does not have these things, and I have never found them whist pottering about the control room (The Board was already there when I came) I just wondered if anyone has any ideas about maybe there being different versions, or personal experience. Also, where can I buy accessory kits! Thanks,Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pritch Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 The memory cards are like hens' teeth. There's a post on the Zero88 forum that may help you with your search. I don't recall anything about the desk ever having a VGA port. Are you sure it's VGA? From memory, there's a 15-pin socket on the back, which is used for running one desk as a slave from another - that socket is a wider format socket than a normal VGA one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewg112 Posted March 1, 2010 Author Share Posted March 1, 2010 Ok Thanks, I was referring to this picture, although I found another one earlier. http://www.dinrino.co.uk/resource/sirius24.JPG http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/sgivga.jpg Our desk is not DMX, So may be considerably older, I have no idea. I want a new desk, I want new lighting that is not 30 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pritch Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 The only thing I can see in that photo that you might take for a VGA connector looks more likely to be a DB25, which is what the Sirius uses as the 0-10v output, to connect to the dimmers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Pearce Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Why? Unless you desperately need to do movers, then the sirius is a grand desk. And tbh if you need to do movers, you'll be hiring, so hire the desk as and when you hire the movers. Good little desk the sirius :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pritch Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Oh, and just to add, when the Sirius came out in 1988 (I think?) VGA was very, very new! They certainly weren't cheap - back then, if you wanted to look at plain old text, you'd have got a text only monitor rather than a shiny VGA one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve h Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 I think I can remember a conversation with a guy who runs one of the local am dram companies and does a lot of tech saying that there was the option to upgrade a few years after they bought their sirius...may be wrong though or mixing various conversations and people together! Steve Edited 2 Add support for the sirius...lovely little desk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themadhippy Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 The only add on options I can think of for the sirus was a negative voltage card and a DMX card.And who said they wont run movers,it ain't pretty nor easy to get them playing nicely ,but its possible.The biggest quirk with them is the way the fade times operate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimWebber Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 ....Edited 2 Add support for the sirius...lovely little desk +1 for the Sirius being a great nay lovely desk.... "Little" - I 'aint so sure! Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delicolor Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 I used to have a Sirius Mk. 1 when it first came out (1988?) and it couldn't drive a screen. I'm pretty sure the 48 way Mk. 2 couldn't either, or the Lightmaster XLS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Pearce Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 I've certainly never seen any form of monitor port on any of the siriuss I've used, nor heard mention of the possibility of one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delicolor Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Oh, and just to add, when the Sirius came out in 1988 (I think?) VGA was very, very new! They certainly weren't cheap - back then, if you wanted to look at plain old text, you'd have got a text only monitor rather than a shiny VGA one.Yes, the Kliegl Performer IV was around then and I don't think that was VGA (certainly colour with zoned areas on screen but possibly TTL) but it was very expensive, then "Great American Market" released a cheap(ish) desk called the Access Pro a year or two later and that was definitely still 9 pin mono. (We got some unusual things in at CCT in those days). They were all a bit of a pig for movers, although the Lightmaster XLS did have some provision that stopped your mirrors flipping if you did a careless blackout. As an aside, I went to an event at Strand once (when they were still near Gillette Corner) and someone was showing me a new moving lights module for the Galaxy Mk. 3. On my commenting that the movements seemed counter-intuitive (pushing the wheels up moved the beam down or to the left) he agreed and said he'd change it in the next software release. It turned out that he wasn't a salesman, he was the lead programmer.http://www.blue-room.org.uk/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grizzly Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 From memory, there's a 15-pin socket on the back, which is used for running one desk as a slave from another The master/slave function to run one 24 from another is via the 8-pin DIN socket, rather than the 15pin connector. Sirius manuals & specs can be found here: http://support.zero88.com/main/en/product/59 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve h Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 The only add on options I can think of for the sirus was a negative voltage card and a DMX card. Ah yes that was it sorry. I did get conversations confused with the frogs VGA upgrade kit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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