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Delfine - your English is good. Better than my French! You are having a technical conversation with specialist terminology which makes it extra hard! You are doing fine! SmartTag=on = common usage SmartTag=off = advanced usage Usually if you are programming a sequential cue stack, SmartTag is normal. If you are splitting parameters and need detailed control of what is recorded (or updated) then usually you will need SmartTag off so the user has precise control.

Hi Delfine, This is a situation where you will need to turn off SmartTag. I think the process will be: Go into the Cue On your PARLEDs, make the intensity >0% so you can see them lit, then set the colour as required. Set the intensity of your PARLEDs back to 0% UPDATE and turn off SmartTag As Edward explained in another thread, if SmartTag is turned on, the console will only record other tagged parameters if the intensity is >0%. If you turn off SmartTag, then the parameters that are tagged in the Programmer will be recorded into the cue regardless of intensity. For your intensity playback, you will also need to turn SmartTag off (probably), since you will only want to record intensity values and not colour/beamshape/position parameters. I hope this helps. Edward will probably give a better and more complete explanation later, but I hope this helps if you are trying to programme now. Regards, Kevin

Yea, but don't go messing with your electrical installation eh. Main equipotential bonding should indeed be connecting metallic water and gas pipes to the MET but you don't want to be arbitrarily connecting your socket earths to any pipes. If your sockets supply equipment that has a high leakage or high functional earth current then there are proper methods defined in the IEE Wiring Regs for using multi-earth sockets (like MK Logic Plus "outboard" sockets). You need the advice of an appropriately knowledgeable electrician before you go here otherwise you could create a shock hazard or have tripping issues with RCDs.

Ah - Edward - if "the event" finally happened, then indeed, Congratulations!!!!! "Now get back in the shed, you've been a bad boy." Oh sorry, that was MY wife. But get used to it 😄

It's probably 25 years or more old, so we're glad it still works and you're still using it! 🙂

They are. Any many of us should be able to help you out if you have a query, so post away! Kevin

Cool! Good luck, I hope you like it! 🙂

Please don't double post. I've answered to your post in the Solution XL forum.

User Manual is here: https://www.zero88.com/storage/downloads/c08f6d38-8d53-4f22-8b22-9de894643a52/Lightmaster-XL-Manual.pdf Maybe your desk is giving the error codes shown on Page 25? However it doesn't seem to be giving any of the "Hardware Problems" codes, so not all is lost! Maybe a Super User Reset is needed (see Page 16) to restore the desk since the internal non-volatile memory has become corrupted since the desk hasn't been used for so long ("All these problems are likely to be transitory. They may require a Super User Clear Memory and/or Reset operation and some reprogramming.") Any other questions, please use the above Forum for Light Master XL and please don't double-post, you won't get a faster answer and you'll just annoy others trying to help you... https://zero88.com/forum/forum/83-other-discontinued-products/ If you get nowhere fault finding this, it might be worth emailing Keith Rogers who will be able to help you more (chance is he even built your desk!): keith.rogers@signify.com

On this page: https://www.zero88.com/control/flxs Under this section: Features (both consoles) It has: Channels patchable across 64 Universes In the manual: https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/patching/available-channels It says: On all ZerOS consoles, including FLX, FLX S24 & FLX S48, ZerOS allows fixtures to be patched across 64 universes without wasting unused channels. Any two of these universes can be sent out over the two DMX outputs. The total number of used channels across the 64 universes must not exceed the number of universes your console is licensed to output. So you should be good to go... If you try to patch a new fixture are you able to assign the channels to Universe 2 and then assign Universe 2 to say the 3-pin XLR?

Hi Delfine, Inhibit was covered in one of the recent training sessions with Edward. I can’t remember which one but maybe the below will help.

That should be the case. Actually 512 channels anywhere across 64 universes (I believe FLX S had ArtNert/sACN too).

I wonder if Programmer Time affects the release time. Probably not.

Jester 12/24 doesn’t have any concept of a complex fixture. You have 24 DMX channels to use across those fixtures plus any others you have so you can’t run them all independently in 9 channel mode as that would require 27 DMX channels. Either choose a lower channel count mode on the fixtures or use the same DMX start address on two or more.

Disable release on lower 🙂

+1 for me too.

Here we go (in the Closed Fixture Editor forum): "For the long name, use the Fixture's model followed by a space, then colon, then another space, and then the Mode name. If no specific Mode name then just put the channel count.For the short name, type in as longer name as you can including the mode information within the character limit!"

Yes it's the colon. Let me see if I can find the Fixture Editor document (and if it mentions this!). ETA: The Documentation is a pdf in here. I don't see it mentioning the colon though: https://www.zero88.com/storage/downloads/c77be706-29ab-4c26-85dc-ad29ca324f37/Zero-88-Fixture-Tools-2.6.zip I'll have a dig back through some Forum questions as I've asked several questions in the past on "defacto" standards for fixtures... well I would, but of course the Fixtures sub-forum has been closed...

External monitor is the same as the internal touchscreen. You are using FLX S48? I don't know about Z monitor (I don't use it), sorry!

No. You only see the detail lines for fixtures selected in the programmer. And by "detail lines" I mean the lines in orange on the first image with "[1] CARO", "[2] CARO", "[3] SAM" and "[4] MAT" in them. If you're in the state of the first image, then click fixture buttons 1,2,3,4 you will see those "detail lines" disappear.

On the first image, fixtures 1-24 are selected in the programmer - see the orange box around them. Hence the fixture detail shown. In the second image, no fixtures are selected in the programmer.

Been asked lots. Nah.

Even if Z88 can give you the speed-to-BPM figure, this is going to remain an issue for you, that the resolution of 100 steps will be too coarse to match the music BPM sufficiently accurately and you will still see drift as your music track progresses (assuming it's longer than a handful of seconds). I wonder if there is even a fixed relationship between effect speed and BPM or if it depends on the base waveform of the effect. Maybe Edward is away asking the software team right now!

Sorry Edward I was a bit too quick (the email just popped up!). Your answer is much preferred 🙂 (much better touchy-feely!!!). Sorry Ceri, yes indeed, welcome! Sorry my initial response wasn't intended to come across frosty! (Ooops!). Regards, Kevin ps Edward - am I wrong about Phantom ZerOS in this context? (Yes I know I should probably know!!! 😛 )

Well you can't! Not physically anyway. You can plug one touch monitor in to the console with DVI-D plus USB. You can run "any number" of ZerOS Monitor apps on things like iPads. Also I think you can link "any number" of PCs running Phantom ZerOS. These will both need you to establish some kind of ethernet wired or wireless network to connect the ZerOS Monitor/Phantom ZerOS clients.