Archive | March, 2008

DMX Dip Switch Calculator – Work It Out For Yourself!

DMX Dip Switch Calculator – Work It Out For Yourself!

Many intelligent lighting fixtures and effects use LCD displays and complex menu functions to allow setting to be changed. Although now less common, even on cheaper fixtures, setting DIP switches to a binary DMX address is still required. But do you really need a Dip Switch Calculator? [...more]

Stage Lighting Tools

ETC Source Four PARNel – To Buy or Not To Buy?

ETC Source Four PARNel – To Buy or Not To Buy?

In 2009 it will 10 years since the award winning ETC Source Four PARNel was launched. A interesting “wavy” lens was added to the original S4 PAR casing to produce a hybrid of the traditional PAR can and a stage lighting fresnel. Since then, the PARnel has been popular but hasn’t sent all [...] [...more]

Stage Lighting Equipment

HTP vs LTP – Lighting Desk Basics 5

HTP vs LTP – Lighting Desk Basics 5

One of elements of learning intelligent lighting control, is grasping the difference in the two ways a lighting desk treats control channels. The concept of Highest Takes Precedence (HTP) and Latest Takes Precedence (LTP) is actually very simple but is often misunderstood and explaining it can make it seem more complicated. On Stage Lighting always [...] [...more]

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