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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.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Stagecraft <stagecraft-bounces@theatrical.net> on behalf of Steven Mclean via Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 9, 2021 9:13 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Steven Mclean <stevenjmclean@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SML] ETC Color Source SPOT & PAR unit repair</font>
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<div>Hello to the wisdom of the list:</div>
<div>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. </div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>The producer is understandably concerned.</div>
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<div>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?</div>
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<div>Steven J McLean</div>
<div>515-480-8461<br>
<a href="mailto:stevenjmclean@gmail.com" target="_blank">stevenjmclean@gmail.com</a></div>
<div><a href="http://designandtechtheatre.wordpress.com" target="_blank">designandtechtheatre.wordpress.com</a></div>
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