While working on a show with a lighting rig that is valued in millions of pounds, I thought it would be amusing to buy a load of cheap eBay disco lights to determine the level of electrical isolation between their mains power and the network connections that could potentially destroy every light in a rig if the isolation failed and mains voltage ended up on the DMX network.
This first light arrived in spectacular fashion complete with a police escort when it was flagged up as high risk package by the post office when I got it delivered to the main offices of the show I’m working on due to its military connections.
It then continued to surprise by not having any DMX facility at all, and then redeeming itself with a rather beefy audio output for such a cheap device.
In summary for the audio side of things. The unit auto-runs on power up at mid-volume and will sequentially play all the audio tracks it finds on the storage device, regardless of their file names.
I’m not sure what the USB device is and have no intention of plugging it into any of my PCs.
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