Ian_p

I have 7 betapack 3s, 5 in a rack and 2 either side of the stage. On the 5th pack in the rack, I am getting occasional but persistent tripping of the mains RBCO. This is an old install, but recently the 4th and 5th packs have had their own 32amp supply fitted as they were previously fed from 13amp plugs on the stage ring-main. The 4th pack does not trip, the individual channel MCBs in the 5th pack do not trip, and swapping the feeds between the packs, the issue remains on the 5th pack. The show starts next week - any suggestions what is at fault? Thanks in advance.

Hi - is there any view of when 7.15 will be available please? Thanks Ian

I’m about to program up our December play, and I’ve had to add a couple of additional dimmers and led drivers, taking me over the S24 48 fixture limit. I usually program down on the stage with my S24 then transfer the show file up to the full size FLX in the control room for the performance which doesn’t have the fixture limit. I’ve been awaiting the fixture limit increase for the S24 and I wondered will this be available in the next few weeks?

The fixture works nicely when controlled directly from its channel fader, but I've not tried those other suggestions yet - I think it's something to do with copying the blackouts from cue to cue as I build the cue-stack. I've not switched off Smarttag - which was suggested as a solution to another issue I was having - am I best to permanently switch off Smarttag in defaults - as it seems to introduce more problems than it solves (I admit I don't really understand Smarttag)

Hi - I’ve noticed an issues with blackouts on my console - given previous advice I’m sure I’ve done something incorrect. Led wash light at an intensity and colour in cue 1 Cue 2 is a blackout all channels at zero. Run 1 into 2, colour and intensity fades then changes colour then goes up, and then down as the blackout completes. I think I may have build the fixture incorrectly as I had to make new ones to split 4 lights into 2 groups of two. But I can’t see how to view the channel settings without deleting and rebuilding again.

ahhhh - yes makes sense - I've tried this on phantom ZeroS and it works. Either flipping to playbacks and lowering the fader, or adjusting the channel via the keypad. Thanks!

Whilst running a dress rehearsal and during a scene I often want to adjust the look, add in a bit of face light or increase a channel. Following the method in the manual to do this it causes a flash on stage: Outputting scene - raise a channel to increase face light for example. Press 'Update' and 'Go' Console is still in scene - lower the channel - but the light fades down.... I have to double press 'Clear' to make the console go into the updated scene even though the scene is suppossed to be outputting - i.e. the green bar is on that scene. double pressing clear then goes into he scene making that channel go from 0% to its saved value. I'm not sure why the console works likes this.

Thanks Edward - to be honest I managed to get the strobe to stick to 0 - but not via the above - I just tried to do it as I had above and on the 5th time it worked. Not sure if or what I did different.

Hi. Another puzzler - I have some Stairville Showbar pro 16wx10, and as I’ve split the 6 into different groups - I had to create another new fixture. I used the same one as I had created for the others, and when bringing up the intensity it immediately strobes. The default strobe value is 255, I wind this off to zero, press record, fixture button, then the ‘home’ symbol and select default. All good. however the moment I start to try to use it again - it has flipped back to strobe value of 255. This is frustrating as I believe I am following the process to set the default - but it just won’t stick. any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

I successfully used the Fire effect in a previous show - thanks for the suggestion. I'd like to flicker a LED RGBW fixture to show a TV flicker up onto the actors's faces. AT present as there is no TV effect - I'm using the candle effect - but it's not really right. How would I put in a new effect like this? Thanks Ian

Hi - same behaviour on FLX S24 and FLX. Generic dimmers lag behind LED as scenes fades in. I have programmed a number of scenes, the backlight and window lights are LED battens or LED xbrick type fixtures, the face light and wash light are tungsten fresnels or profiles. When a scene is triggered - with fade in, out and colour all the same time, the backlight and windows come in first, followed by the wash and face light. it looks ok as it looks like I’m doing it on purpose but it’s not the effect I want. I’d prefer all the lights to fade in together. any ideas? thanks ian

Edward, it was the MS Edge browser - fails everytime - Chrome downloaded it on first attempt. I won't be using Edge anymore! Thanks Ian

Hi Edward - the download progress bar completes - and file appears downloaded with the name as above - I've tried a few times - and waited a good long time - nothing changes... The first time was about 25 minutes ago...

Hi Edward, When downloading this 7.14 file - it changes its filename to 'unconfirmed 579115.crdownload'. What am I doing wrong please? Thanks Ian

Thanks both - this working on the FLX - the protocol of selecting first and then pressing Delete makes sense to me. However I think I do have an issue on the FLXS24 - I can't update a fixture without crashing the desk - when I touch the DMX field in the add a fixture the desk immediately reboots, but I realize this is a separate issue and will wait for 7.14, as we are using the FLX for this show.