Mega Bars "curiously promising new sticker"

Sounds like you got 2 of these units. Mega Bar LED RC.
The instructions to turn the IR on/off are in the user manual on the product page from the link above.
How do they make your other units flicker? Or can you maybe explain that a little further?
About your number one dream: this will not happen because in short the RGB3C is just that: 3 DMX channels. nothing more or less. It is basically a 3 channel dmx controller designed around RGB control.
hope this helps.
Welcome to the forums.
Sincerely,

Hi James, thanks for the reply.

I've had a look through both the paper manual from the box and also the online manual - there's no mention of an IR on/off option.

My previous megabar RC purchases (a few each month for the last few months) havent had this new "IR on/off" sticker on them - and it's a pretty bold, very noticable sticker. My guess is that theres now something in the firmware which allows the user to switch off the infra red sensor on slave units to prevent accidental/stray IR remote control signals from a megabar remotes, jumping the slave bars out of slave mode. I just dont know how to activate the IR on/off switch/mode.

The flickering which I was refering to isnt related to the megabars own RC remote, but interference from other remote controls. For example: I often use a remote controlled video projector - when I'm pointing the remote contol for the projector up toward the prjector to adjust its settings, the megabar RCs flicker rapidly - almost strobing, and stop as soon as I let go. I've tried various other remotes too, such as LCD TV remotes, DVD player remotes, and they all cause the megabar RCs to pulse rapidly.

Theres good news though. I've found that if I gaffa tape a "tunnel" to the front of the non-ADJ remotes, I can narrow the spread of the RC IR beams, and make them only affect the intended equipment.


Also, the LED touch controller. It's a wonderful controller especially with its 3 timer settings etc. However, its more than just a 3 channel controller which you mentioned. It's got settings for 4 channel eg: RGBD (dimmer being the 4th channel) and also a 5 channel mode (RGBWD or RGBAD(White/amber & Dim) (cant remember now whether its white or amber)

This 3 channel, or 4 channel or 5 channel operation means that the stepping or gaps between zone 1, 2,3,4,5 & 6 is calculated correctly. eg: In 3 channel mode, the RGB fixture on zone 1 will have channels 1,2 & 3, the fixture of zone 2 with have channels 4,5,6 etc....

But when the LED touch is set into 5 channel mode, eg: RGBAD/RGBWD, then the fixture on zone 1 gets channels 1,2,3,4 &5, the fixture on zone 2 gets channels 6,7,8,9 & 10 etc...

What I was hoping for would be a 9 channel mode of RGBRGBRGB, when the fixture on zone 1 would get channels 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 & 9, the fixture of zone 2 would get channels 10,11,12,13 & 14 etc.

Hey Steve. when you add info to a topic please make another post as the info you add if you "edit" a post we don't get notified on because you edited an existing one. We only get emails for new reply's or topics. Thanks. We are gonna get the manual updated with the procedure for the Ir ON/OFF. In the mean time you will have to wait for the EU support member to post on this thread answering your other questions. And yes a lot of them are busy at PLASA this week. If you don't hear from anyone for a few days make a new post and I will get someone to answer you.
Sincerely,

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Originally posted by Jingles:
Hey Steve. when you add info to a topic please make another post as the info you add if you "edit" a post we don't get notified on because you edited an existing one. We only get emails for new reply's or topics. Thanks.

Understood, thanks. Consecutive posts on forums are one of pet hates - where someone's posted something at say 8:01pm, then without any replies keeps "bumping" the post by adding a few extra thoughts at 8:03, 8:07, 8:15 etc - it's as though they want to keep their post bubbling at the top if the stack for an early answer - So, I was keen to avoid seeming to bump my own post :-)

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Originally post by Jingles
We are gonna get the manual updated with the procedure for the Ir ON/OFF. In the mean time you will have to wait for the EU support member to post on this thread answering your other questions. And yes a lot of them are busy at PLASA this week. If you don't hear from anyone for a few days make a new post and I will get someone to answer you.

Sure, there's no rush - ADJs stand was quite big at PLASA, (and about the only remaining stand at PLASA of interest to mobile DJs) so id imagine all the ADJ staff will be busy taking it all down for the next day or two.

I've sort of brought up two queries in one post here, what with the IR on/off feature, and the channel addressing on the LED touch with megabars, so if I do need to post again in a few days, I might open a new thread for the LED touch controller.

Don't get me wrong, I think that the megabars are great, and my favourite lighting purchase for several years.

Right no problem. The UK office to my knowledge isn't as "big" as the USA office, so they might not have all the resources we do to be able to reply to forum posts as fast as we do. Heck, I reply to posts faster than anyone in the USA office. It's probably due to the fact that I have no life of my own. haha
We will do our best to get your questions answered and addressed within a reasonable time frame.
Sincerely,

Hi Steve,
The IR feature has been added to newer Mega Bars.
How this works is explained in the revised user manual which is online.

http://www.americandj.com/pdff.../mega_bar_led_rc.pdf