Two Hog on the same Network

I have operated a show where we had a Hog 3 networked to a Ipc. I agree with Hilbilly you want to avoid using the programmer of the console that is acting as the sever during the show. While the 3 is VERY stable now this just makes it less likely that you will come agross a random problem that can crash the desk. I would recomend that you keep seperate pages fro each operator. If you are on the same page your fader position can affect the other user. I had this happen most often when one person changed pages faster. When the second person changed to that page if the fader values were different they took precidence. I would have moving lights on pages 1 -100 and video and lasers on pages 101-200. I would also have a laptop with the current show loaded (the save after the last focus) and widgets then a datlynx to swith all the unverses over to the backup. T his will save your butt if for some reason the power to FOH is lost. I would also make sure that their are 2 seperate circuits (on seperate phases of power, or house and generator) going to FOH for lighting. I have had people unplug FOH power from the PD or lose a hot leg. Check out this thread on backups from the lightnetwork as well.

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I have operated a show where we had a Hog 3 networked to a Ipc. I agree with Hilbilly you want to avoid using the programmer of the console that is acting as the sever during the show. While the 3 is VERY stable now this just makes it less likely that you will come agross a random problem that can crash the desk. I would recomend that you keep seperate pages fro each operator. If you are on the same page your fader position can affect the other user. I had this happen most often when one person changed pages faster. When the second person changed to that page if the fader values were different they took precidence. I would have moving lights on pages 1 -100 and video and lasers on pages 101-200. I would also have a laptop with the current show loaded (the save after the last focus) and widgets then a datlynx to swith all the unverses over to the backup. T his will save your butt if for some reason the power to FOH is lost. I would also make sure that their are 2 seperate circuits (on seperate phases of power, or house and generator) going to FOH for lighting. I have had people unplug FOH power from the PD or lose a hot leg. Check out this thread on backups from the lightnetwork as well.

lightnetwork.com//?msg=22722.1