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<blockquote data-quote="Per SÃ¸vik" data-source="post: 104700" data-attributes="member: 1285">Re: X32 DiscussionOuch, had a bit of a panic situation today, had set the wrong safe modes, and my programmed show was way too hot on the monitor outs, so instant feedback of the worst possible kind when changing scenes.. I unplugged the monitor outs and was contemplating holding my finger on the monitor fader while changing scenes, but didn&#039;t want to risk it, and the singers were happy to do the show without monitors (their ears already ringing so they would have accepted anything to keep me from plugging them back in). Horrible day, my foh tent wouldn&#039;t fit at what was available for foh, I tried to get the show postponed for the weather to clear, but had to start the show with the desk covered with a tarp, not making things easier <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cry:" title="Crying&nbsp; &nbsp; :cry:"&nbsp; data-smilie="15"data-shortname=":cry:" />. Anyway, is that the experience then, that holding back the faders will be really, really bad? I thought maybe there would be some stuck fader sensing, but wouldn&#039;t risk finding out. Sensing a stuck fader should be fairly easy to do by monitoring the position, and defining how long a fader is allowed to remain stationary before the motor stops. Current sensing on the motor would require hardware, but a motion sensing approach could easily be done in firmware.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Per SÃ¸vik, post: 104700, member: 1285"] Re: X32 Discussion Ouch, had a bit of a panic situation today, had set the wrong safe modes, and my programmed show was [U]way[/U] too hot on the monitor outs, so instant feedback of the worst possible kind when changing scenes.. I unplugged the monitor outs and was contemplating holding my finger on the monitor fader while changing scenes, but didn't want to risk it, and the singers were happy to do the show without monitors (their ears already ringing so they would have accepted anything to keep me from plugging them back in). Horrible day, my foh tent wouldn't fit at what was available for foh, I tried to get the show postponed for the weather to clear, but had to start the show with the desk covered with a tarp, not making things easier :cry:. Anyway, is that the experience then, that holding back the faders will be really, really bad? I thought maybe there would be some stuck fader sensing, but wouldn't risk finding out. Sensing a stuck fader should be fairly easy to do by monitoring the position, and defining how long a fader is allowed to remain stationary before the motor stops. Current sensing on the motor would require hardware, but a motion sensing approach could easily be done in firmware. [/QUOTE]

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