[SML] ETC Color Source SPOT & PAR unit repair

Nancy Christian Nancy.Christian at vvc.edu
Fri Jul 9 17:34:07 UTC 2021


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Nancy Christian
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Victor Valley College

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I concur with Matthew's statement. I was allowed to use some of the Color Source units a few years ago. If I remember a quick read on them before I used them was to limit the number of units daisy chained. I may be wrong but that popped into my head on reading this message. I would try running in no more than groups of 3 to see if that makes them work correctly on both power and DMX.

JT

On 7/9/2021 11:48 AM, Matthew Breton via Stagecraft wrote:
How many units are you daisy-chaining together?  I'd examine how many units you're asking to pass power and data through, and either power fixtures individually (preferred) or making the runs as short as possible.


Matthew Breton
Design for Theater and Dance
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Subject: [SML] ETC Color Source SPOT & PAR unit repair


Hello to the wisdom of the list:
The startup theatre that I am working with bought an inventory of ETC Color Source SPOT Deep Blue &  Color Source PAR Deep Blue units about a year and a half ago.  Just as we were beginning to get some use out of them, the theatre was shut down due to Covid.  The producer pivoted last December & opened as a sort of nightclub with limited seating & we began using the lights again.  All seemed to be going well, but one-by one some of the units became unresponsive.  About a month ago, I did an entire survey of the rig (I did not buy the units & have very limited experience with these type of LED units).  Anyway, I discovered that roughly 1/3 of the SPOT & 1 of the 20 PAR units were malfunctioning.

The nature of the failure is that when power is applied, the units fail to power up.  Fans do not come on & the small screen fails to illuminate.  All units DO pass along power & DMX to units downstream in the daisy-chain.

There seems to be no commonality concerning the placement in the digital or power daisy-chain.  Some were at the end of one or the other; some were mid-chain; some were at or towards the beginning.

Apparently these units are no longer under warranty and ETC/Barbizon has issued me an RMA for the repair.  This will require shipping all 13 units to & from Wisconsin (from SW Florida) at an undisclosed cost & a repair of an estimated $500 or more each.

The producer is understandably concerned.

My question to the list is:  Are there any alternatives, or is the theatre destined to pay roughly 1/2 or more of the replacement cost of the units in order to get them repaired?


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