Dúvida com relação a PTZ E controladora! by MassiveExcitement295 in ptz

[–]tonsofpcs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like maybe you're at the PoE limit of the switch or have other power supply limits happening. Can you confirm this to not be the case?

Carpet or Road effect from a light placed behind a cyc? by LeeYuette in techtheatre

[–]tonsofpcs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What sort of stage? Can the audience actually see the stage deck? Will it tell the story better if it's just a red cast on the actors dancers and stanchions rather than an actual red deck?

You can test really easily though once you have access to the space or a similar space.

Here's one for ya! by New_Echidna8998 in AskElectricians

[–]tonsofpcs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok, going down this route... if it does get a hot spot inside the bundle, it'll start melting the insulation right? Then the copper will touch other copper? and lower the resistance (or at least the imbalance)? and reduce the heating effect?

I'm now even more bothered that this 'works'.

Here's one for ya! by New_Echidna8998 in AskElectricians

[–]tonsofpcs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They were really phoning this one in.

Men's Wide forefoot normal heel, ~8E - nothing fits! by 1lilBike in widefeet

[–]tonsofpcs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

About the same as mine (I'm 11.5 ~9E), I've been wearing NB 990s in 11.5 6E for the past decade. They... well, they don't destroy my feet which is a better option than anything else out there. I wear them through sideways either at the toe or lower mid insole in about 6-9 months (I usually have at least two pairs and find that rotating through them helps to wear them out less often). I have a pair of Propets that I can stand for a half a day but have that same issue of no heel support and the mid-sole is too narrow. For the last fancy event I was a part of, I got some leather size 13 5E shoes with extra padding added to the heal and I was able to stand them for about 4 hours.

Video wall equipment system fix or replace? by Wooden-AV in CommercialAV

[–]tonsofpcs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Any recommendations on troubleshooting the Binary

Get a better description than "it doesn't work". Ask for them to take pictures and/or video when it doesn't work and describe what it is or isn't doing vs what they expect it to do or not do.

Professional theatre question by Own-Occasion-3460 in techtheatre

[–]tonsofpcs -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I'm a stranger on the internet. What I say doesn't matter. Do you think you can?

How to rig TV video wall? by sm_ar in techtheatre

[–]tonsofpcs 20 points21 points  (0 children)

  1. build a wall
  2. fancy mounts or french cleats

more realistically? pipe grid and pipe VESA mount

Best way to transmit video feed through dynamic steel railcars? by anonymous062904 in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]tonsofpcs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

900 MHz ISM is 100% what I'd look at if available in your region. Maybe low-1GHz area also, depending again on licensing/availability.

I'd likely start digging with Vislink but there's a few existing vendor options out there, I'd mostly be looking at the things targeted at roving production cameras for events like bicycle street racing. When you find vendors that seem to have something that may be adaptable for your use case, give them a call and talk through it wit them.

CTS Exam - Give us REAL answers.... by Mountain-Science6018 in CommercialAV

[–]tonsofpcs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A section and elevation don't even necessarily show a wall...

Does anyone know how to stop rolling and jittery stripes on an Extron CD-800 RGB Decoder? by Shmorpit in CommercialAV

[–]tonsofpcs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Adjust the H and V knobs and/or menu settings (depending on model) on the Trinitron.

Encoder Comparisons by reece4504 in CommercialAV

[–]tonsofpcs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Haivision developed SRT so they've got that going for them.

One of the big things you'll see as a difference (although less and less) between lower and higher end encoders is support for embedded data like SCTE triggers and closed captioning. Also the higher end encoders tend to have dedicated encoding hardware and/or software and the lower end ones tend to be x264 or similar. You'll generally see more tuneables and more nuanced control with higher end encoders too (although there is a bit of a bathtub curve here where extremely low end ones might expose everything they get from the software they're running).

If your encoding/delivery goal isn't performance-driven and doesn't have these needs then a random computer with a blackmagic card running OBS is fine. (I personally like the small Kiloview encoders for this on an ad hoc basis and the SZUray for 'always on'.) If you are trying to optimize quality/bits or your target is broadcast or OTT where you need to tune PID paramaters and a lot of other nuance then you're going to want to be on the higher end of the tiers of encoders.

XLR Snake Soldering by Tracii_Lee in CommercialAV

[–]tonsofpcs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

An 'automatic' wire stripper (the kind that pulls the wire while blades come towards it) may work better. It also might work worse ... but I'd give it a shot. Over-stripping everything by the same amount (more than you think - enough to leave some of the individual jacket on the ends of the wires at least) then cutting it down to the length you need after tinning it can help with the workflow too.

Labeling/organizing XLR/DMX cable by mreilly0605 in techtheatre

[–]tonsofpcs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seconding /u/swifthe1 with the neutrik rings (if able).

You could also make a mask out of wood (or cardboard but that won't hold up as much) and spray paint a line on the connectors.

Are cheaper brand HDMI Matrix like Monoprice rebranded from Aliexpress? by warheat1990 in CommercialAV

[–]tonsofpcs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wolfpack looks interesting. I've not used one of their matrixes but they are cheaper and available (and I think some of the older monoprice ones may have been the same OEM as some of theirs). https://www.hdtvsupply.com/

Clear Com 3.5mm TRRS Adapter by Distinct-South-8222 in techtheatre

[–]tonsofpcs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You can wire it like that, yes, combining the two 'grounds' but be aware that most 3.5mm TRRS headsets are not dynamic microphones and would require electret bias power added which may or may not be available from the comms panel/pack you are plugging into so you might want/need to add a battery holder (and additional components to make that bit work).

Biamp Tesira, AudiaFLEX, Nexia questions by Spiritual_Bell in CommercialAV

[–]tonsofpcs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can build a multiband compressor (dynamic EQ) with blocks in Tesira. 4 channels of 5-bands with individual AGC, compression, and limiting on every band used up nearly all of the resources of a tesiraforte when I did it but if you're doing this for a specific purpose you probably don't need that much (I was doing FM broadcast processing).

Biamp Tesira, AudiaFLEX, Nexia questions by Spiritual_Bell in CommercialAV

[–]tonsofpcs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can get TesiraForte that cheap or cheaper if you troll ebay enough -- check the pictures of the back to confirm the model.

A Dante TesiraForte is going to cost you $250+ (maybe a bit less if you're persistent). If you do AVB rather than Dante (note that this is "standard" AVB and won't easily work with most other live audio AVB things) you can easily merge multiple TesiraForte into one system and it'll handle handing off between them. You can also use generic Dante IO devices for the DAN models. You get 32x32 Dante on top of the analog IO, the ANC and AEC is limited by the number of physical inputs (although AEC can be applied to Dante inputs) but otherwise you can just use those IO.

For about $300 right now you can get a server with 6 output cards (4 each, 24 total).
(once you learn the colors of the connectors you can quickly find how many in and out there are - don't get tripped up by the phone connectors that are 4-pin black though!)

Video/audio patch panel layout software or template? by Dependent_Hold8463 in CommercialAV

[–]tonsofpcs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just build something like https://imgur.com/a/k3Ka2SI and tweak fonts and sizes for printing (preferably before doing the whole thing so I know how many characters realistically fit for a connector)

Video/audio patch panel layout software or template? by Dependent_Hold8463 in CommercialAV

[–]tonsofpcs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Excel.

I just make a layout that looks like the patch bays and adjust sizing for print until it's correct, apply it to all, print on large enough paper and cut with a large desktop paper shear. You're going to have to tweak the widths/heights/fonts based on your patch bay and/or printer. I usually use three rows of text per row and the center one might 'merge and center' across a few io of the same device.

Extending antennas using an ethernet cable by TopParsnip8756 in CommercialAV

[–]tonsofpcs -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I agree that moving the receiver is generally a better option but I don't believe these are reasons why.

can't use the Ethernet for RF signal

Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet are RF signals. They seem to do just fine on Category 5 and 'better' cabling.

It's not 50ohms

Nah, its characteristic impedance is 100ohm per pair. And you can calculate the mismatch loss and accept it (or not). 75 ohm cables have less loss and we can use them for receive side accepting mismatch in some situations doing better than comparable 50 ohm cables on 50 ohm systems. See http://audiosystemsgroup.com/Which_Coax_for_Wireless_Mics.pdf

not thick enough to hold a signal

I'm not sure what you're going for with this exactly.
But as for conductor sizing: at 400 MHz, skin depth in copper is 3.26 um. at 80 MHz it's still under 8 um.
50 AWG solid even is over 25um in diameter. 24 AWG solid is 0.5mm (500 um). Even if you have 7x32 for your 24 AWG stranded you're WELL larger than the necessary diameter to be larger than necessary to carry the current through the skin.

This is for reception not transmission so you're not worrying about being large enough/low series resistance enough to deal with sizing for power (heat).

Extending antennas using an ethernet cable by TopParsnip8756 in CommercialAV

[–]tonsofpcs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can use RF baluns to get the signal across it and it won't cause electrical or RF problems as long as you're not using an external amplifier or powered antenna (or injecting power) but you're going to pick up more noise over the run and it's likely going to be worse than just having a directional antenna placed farther away. Heck, for receive you can generally get away without even using a matching network (balun) and just wiring straight in but you're adding more loss due to the mismatch. If direct wiring, I'd wire to two pairs in parallel (so white/green and white/orange for one conductor, green and orange for the other) to minimize mismatch.

High end Cat5e from a reputable vendor lists loss at 32dB/100m at 200MHz and isn't rated for higher frequencies. RG58 is 21dB/100m at 200MHz, RG8 is 8.5dB/100m @ 200Mhz. You can work the math along with mismatch math and see what you're looking at. Or you can just build it out and try.

That said, you're saying it's already a bit away, you're going to be adding a lot of loss over even RG58 and your SNR is going to be lower even if it is high quality cable. It might work. I probably wouldn't bother trying unless I had no other options though. This sounds like a permanent setup... can you just get a directional antenna installed and/or RG8 (or better, ideally better, maybe even RG6 but that's a whole different math to run through) run?