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[Curt Palme]

Probably this weekend. Need to find a green tube, but if nothing else, the bracket will go up.

[Curt Palme]

Probably this weekend. Need to find a green tube, but if nothing else, the bracket will go up.

[overclkr]

[CasetheCorvetteman]

[Curt Palme]

the latest versions have integration with Ipads and Iphones! No extra hardware needed.. sign in with a browser to the IP address of the Mediamatrix unit, and away you go.

The one distributor went bankrupt a couple of years back, so I bought an entry level Nion unit. 8 inputs, 8 outputs. I wondered last year why the heck I bought it, but I'm now inheriting a really high end client with 140,000 square feet that has 2 of them, with 64 channels of amplification. I need to get up to speed, as I'll need to rewrite the software next year. I'll have my system set up this weekend.

[Curt Palme]

the latest versions have integration with Ipads and Iphones! No extra hardware needed.. sign in with a browser to the IP address of the Mediamatrix unit, and away you go.

The one distributor went bankrupt a couple of years back, so I bought an entry level Nion unit. 8 inputs, 8 outputs. I wondered last year why the heck I bought it, but I'm now inheriting a really high end client with 140,000 square feet that has 2 of them, with 64 channels of amplification. I need to get up to speed, as I'll need to rewrite the software next year. I'll have my system set up this weekend.

[CasetheCorvetteman]

I will have to go and have a look at this setup to see what we have here, its got Windows 2000 on it if i remember right, but channels wise i think its 32, there is four BOBs there, but it is spread across two locations, not sure if theyre both intergrated or seperate now, its been a long time since i played around with it.

[Curt Palme]

Yeah, it's a totally different beast now. you can run 448 channels of audio over 1 CAT 5 cable!

In other news, the second 909 has been retubed, and is ready for the ceiling. Actually, not quite, I'll do the astig magnets tomorrow night while it's still on the bench. Found a near mint 2000 hour green tube with green C element installed that I dropped in. Should have less wear than the one on the ceiling now, and that's pretty damn good.

[Curt Palme]

Yeah, it's a totally different beast now. you can run 448 channels of audio over 1 CAT 5 cable!

In other news, the second 909 has been retubed, and is ready for the ceiling. Actually, not quite, I'll do the astig magnets tomorrow night while it's still on the bench. Found a near mint 2000 hour green tube with green C element installed that I dropped in. Should have less wear than the one on the ceiling now, and that's pretty damn good.

[CasetheCorvetteman]

Do you find the astig magnets a bit of a pain to do on these since you cant really rotate them 360° around the neck? I found that with mine, wasnt really an issue, but its abit less exciting reaching in there the way that second board with the two big resistors spans over the top of them!! Not sure what sort of voltages are around there, i threw my "live switch board work" 1000v insulated rubber mat down to do mine though...

[cosaw]

[CasetheCorvetteman]

Im not so sure about the dielectric properties of washing up gloves, but the rubber mat i use is for working on live commercial switch boards, its a safe enough bet you wont be earthed through your feet anyway

[Spanky Ham]

Steve,
I just looked up the new material from Seymour. It looks promising and for the price would be a great option. It is to late now as Curt jumped in without asking the pros, but maybe down the road.

[Curt Palme]

[Curt Palme]

[kal]

[kal]

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[kal]

[Curt Palme]

'Nother question:

I am using an Onkyo TX-SR605 as my main receiver. Picked up from the recycler. Tried the HDMI inputs for 5 minutes, and they work fine, but who knows long term. I also have a Lumagen HDP with super low hours that I won at Cliff's place 5 years ago.

Do I simply use the internal scaling on the Onkyo, or run the HDMI via the Lumagen? Have a feeler out for the new Moome Barco cards, but for now I'll be running into a Moome external box to an RGBHV splitter into the two projectors.

How bad is the Onkyo scaling compared to the Lumagen? The Onkyo makes it easy with one remote (will be Irule down the road), but if the scaling in the Lumagen is that much better, I'll use it instead.

[Curt Palme]

'Nother question:

I am using an Onkyo TX-SR605 as my main receiver. Picked up from the recycler. Tried the HDMI inputs for 5 minutes, and they work fine, but who knows long term. I also have a Lumagen HDP with super low hours that I won at Cliff's place 5 years ago.

Do I simply use the internal scaling on the Onkyo, or run the HDMI via the Lumagen? Have a feeler out for the new Moome Barco cards, but for now I'll be running into a Moome external box to an RGBHV splitter into the two projectors.

How bad is the Onkyo scaling compared to the Lumagen? The Onkyo makes it easy with one remote (will be Irule down the road), but if the scaling in the Lumagen is that much better, I'll use it instead.

[CasetheCorvetteman]

Is the Onkyo using a Faroudja DCDi? Both my Harman/Kardons have that, and having tried it i found it to be more capable than the LiMo PRO, but less capable than the PC, so id say itd be a fair bet the Lumagen will be abit better than the Onkyo.

[CasetheCorvetteman]

[CasetheCorvetteman]

[CasetheCorvetteman]

Now when you come to align these two Curt are you going to get one perfect the align then green of the second rig to the red of the first?

[redfox001]

But inside the Barco all voltages are the same. But is there really a risk when turning the astig? The video out board is behind a metal part. Ok in a fault condition that metal part could carry a voltage I guess? Perhaps if you don't connect the ground wires? Good tips.

[fragzero]