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There is a ladder to a high perch where I should be able to see what make/model the nearest wash is and they are probably all the same. I'll see if the tester can sniff out the RDM and failing that work it out the hard way. Thanks for your comment though!

I'm taking an FLX-S into a new venue (for me) which has (or had) 48 ways of dimming, some channels of which have been modified to hard power a couple of dozen RGBW washes, brand currently unknown. I have the choice of reverse engineering the patch using my DMX-Cat (and 96 faders on the desk) or throwing caution to the wind and turning on RDM, however I am mildly paranoid about munging the settings and not readily being able to restore them afterwards. I've played with RDM in my main venue with an FLX but found it somewhat problematic, especially with flickering on cheap fixtures. Am I right to be cautious?

We have noticed continuing occasional freezes on 8.0 along with some playbacks going to full unexpectedly, faders stuck on blue background even with clear all and some fixtures picking up wrong defaults. This is all from an operator who doesn't touch the record/update/setup areas at all, just triggering playbacks. I wasted an hour trying to sort out six backcloth LEDs which are normally default blue/zero but had become the opposite default, i.e. red/green/white/full. There are definitely some obscure data corruption issues going on. (This was resolved by a factory reset and reload of the showfile, which had been saved at the start of the day with mixed up defaults showing onstage). If I could reliably duplicate the sequence I would send it in but otherwise Z88 will be chasing shadows...

I've had an odd thing happen twice now running 8.0.0. We use the desk to busk a number of looks from the subs and wings with static states on the UDKs, with program changes very infrequent and generally done by me. Last week I had a report of some lights being on unexpectedly and when I looked into it a number of fixtures had picked up default values of 69%. (Not the fixtures complained about however!) I saved the show and reset the values, doing some minor tidying up of default and home levels. However I reloaded the show I originally saved and all was as expected. Today I got another call and a different set of lights were sitting at 92% with all faders down (ther than GM, which still controlled them). A restore of my tweaked showfile put it back to normal. I'm thinking two possiblities here, firstly maybe the 2032 needs swapping out, or secondly someone new is driving the desk and they are more "experimental" in playing back the looks, having discovered an obscure bug in the process. Has anyone else encountered something similar?

Note that setting default and home values in ZEROS (certainly on FLX) gets munged by "smart" settings which should be turned off when recording them. That has caught me out a couple of times.

I wonder if Zeros Servers might start making it on the 2nd user market to buy? Some places might decide to move away from the FLX and FLX-S desks now that much of the range has been sunsetted. I'd rather have a Server as backup than an FLX-S but not too keen on the prices!

@Jon Hole I wish you future success in your forthcoming move. I think Zero88 now have their work cut out to maintain the support levels we have enjoyed in recent times.

Sorry, not the right file, I had too many I was tinkering with. shard 24.zfix

I should have mentioned I'm running 7.14.3 software. .zfix file attached along with mapping table. shard 65-24.zfix

I have a new moving light that I found a perfect match for in the library in 16 channel mode. If anyone is interested, the fixture is a Shard Bolt 65 zoom wash bought from SS&L and it matches to an OMAX OM-M450B which is not the same but has similar functionality (RGBW, zoom, 16 bit pan/tilt). The Shard also has a three cell ring head mode (outer 1/outer 2/inner) which uses an additional 8 channels for RGBW 2 and 3. After much trial and error, I noticed that when you move to cell mode the intensity channel gets nailed up at level 255 regardless of the default and all intensity control happens on the colour channels instead. It is possible to access .1 .2 and .3 cells individually via command line and colour them accordingly. Is this design intent? I noticed that if you set the intensity to cell instead of master then the chosen cell colour levels stay at default and the intensity channel fades up and down. (The other cell colours continue to behave as if there isn't an intensity channel). I also tested to a rudimentary 2 cell RGBI profile to rule out more complex interactions. (It was imaginary- I-R1G1B1R2G2B2 with my Dmx tester). This was tested on an FLX-S offline but also duplicates on Phanton-FLX. The fixture profile can be provided if required but I suspect an explanation is probable without it. Ian

I have seen mention over the years that the Eclipse came with a cigarette lighter built in, a story even mentioned by Rob Halliday in his classic gear column. However, I've seen two in the flesh (one of which I commissioned), neither of which had one. Both were the larger frame variant rather the low profile FOH style. I don't recall it in product literature either. My question is- Did Zero 88 ever fit or provide cigarette lighters on the Eclipse as an option? I've no doubt they existed out on the road but probably an aftermarket mod by hire companies. (Realistically they would need a separate transformer as I'm sure the PSU would not have the headroom for an extra ten Amps without impacting on the output stability). (To younger Forum users without grey hair, once upon a time most cars had a cigar lighter gizmo on the dashboard or console, you pressed it down and it popped up again after a short while and when you pulled it out it exposed glowing coils you could use to set fire to the smoking article of your choice. The receptacle lives on as the 12V accessory socket). I realise people who remember the 1980s products first-hand within Zero88 are probably in short supply as they will have moved on or retired. However hopefully there is a Company archive and a keen custodian who can research as they enjoy the history.

Sorry to lose you from here Edward, I wish you success in your career moving forward.

If the release is still some time away I'd be happy to Beta it at our venue (FLX with S24 as backup).

I sent something to Support@zero88.com on Wednesday and didn't hear anything back. Has it changed or is it a domain hiccup?

Mostly good news! This will make our S24 1U backup for the FLX 2U mostly seamless and open up the possibilities for pixel mapping. (We have to forego fixtures 49+ at the moment).