Re: PC based lighting... Re. Diagnosis of Dead Desk


Frank Wood wrote:

> Well, our antique Strand Duet never crashed, that I heard of, apart
> from the time when some dink added a can of Coke to it.


You were lucky then! I speak from experience!




> The ARRI (now
> ETC) Impuls which suceeded it was just as reliable.

I don't think I've ever come across that one. Certainly a venue I used
to light at a lot which had an Arri (as you say actually ETC) Mirage
used to crash it from time to time. The cure was to do what ETC call a
"Factory Reset" which entailed holding 7,8 and 9 on the numeric
keyboard down whilst the desk powered up as I recall.

But it probably depends on the level of use the board gets. I assume
you are talking about Questors which is probably a heavy user by
Amateur Standards but not as heavy as the essentially professional
venues I'm talking about which have shows in pretty much every week of
the year.




> > Clearly you wouldn't have channel faders, but then few fully
> > computerised boards do these days.
>
> Our Insight does. They are so much more convenient than punching in
> numbers and playing with a wheel.

You pays your money, you gets your own poison. But faders are a bit
impractical on the larger modern boards - 2048 faders on a 4 dmx
universe board would be a bit mind boggling!




> I am all in favour of clearly labelled, single function controls.


Wouldn't disagree with that. But my point was that it can be done on a
pc keyboard and, if it's the only way someone can afford ...

Andy

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