Call from a local Church

[sunray]

Just got home from a callout.

The Church has 4 powered speakers on the walls, they asked if I could look at a problem with very loud buzzing in one and they had to switch it off for the Christmas eve and day services.

One arrival I saw some of their DMX lights flickering ocassionally...

Their 'lighting expert' had plugged DMX into a Y lead along with the output of a rack unit labled 'DA' and at the speaker was a DMX splitter. Apparently it worked ok if only the sound OR the lights are switched on.

I gave them the choice of sound, lights or a lead draped around the walls.

Edited December 26, 2019 by sunray

[DrV]

If only there were a DMX connector that wouldn't go into a 3pin XLR socket. Oh wait...

[paulears]

.... and I bet you didn't charge them!

[bigclive]

That could be a new use for the 5-pin DMX standard. An audio pair and a data pair.

 

.... and I bet you didn't charge them!

 

No need for payment. God will reward him with untold riches in heaven.

(But only after he's dead so he can't report back that it was a scam.)

[sunray]

That could be a new use for the 5-pin DMX standard. An audio pair and a data pair.

I've known DMX and intercom used that way

 

.... and I bet you didn't charge them!

No I didn't on this ocassion but I usually do, I had to do a little bit of shopping at the sainsburys express across the road and the total time away from home was 13:50 to 14:14 or 24 minutes and I'd doubt the callout added 10 minutes with zero monetary cost.

 

The Church today is in the same group as a Church Hall I use several times a year for which I hold keys and have additional (free) access to set up etc while the hall is not in use so I am quite lenient. The huge clue to the problem was seeing one of these:

https://www.ebay.co....678073a8b740439

mounted on the back of the speaker using only a M-M XLR barrel.

I offered sound or lights for free or return home for cables and install at a cost, they chose lights.

 

No need for payment. God will reward him with untold riches in heaven.

(But only after he's dead so he can't report back that it was a scam.)

Oh! I'm coming back alright... There are too many people I want to... Edited December 27, 2019 by sunray