Hi Matt,
Very cool - Thanks for posting the link!
Regarding the original topic of your post, I ended up throwing out the Chauvet wireless DMX units I had bought. I'm not trying to slam them, or be malicious, but they were so unreliable that I couldn't bring myself to sell them to anyone else. Also, the power supply wires were a bit too delicate to imagine them lasting very long living on a lighting tree from gig to gig.
The SIRS-e wireless DMX units that you mentioned are priced a bit below the W-DMX ones I had looked at previously. I'm going to check them out, as I would really love to eliminate our wiring loop. We go from the controller to the tree on stage right, from there to the 3 39" uplighting fixtures behind the stage, then to the lighting tree on stage left. If I had 4 SIRS-e units I could broadcast from the controller, and receive at both trees and the backlighting string... but that's about $1400, so it is still hard to justify. Things would be faster for getting in and out though...
Here's my mod to the FCB1010. I needed the space, so I cut off the continuous controller pedals and housed the FCB's power supply in a project box with my LanBox DMX controller. Here is the modification I did to the FCB:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fcb1010/files/Hardware Mods/ Like your mod, the pedal is powered by sending the power to the pedal via the unused MIDI leads.
Here is a post on my learning curve associated with programming the LanBox:
http://www.djchat.com/boards/showthread.php?t=68691&high light=lanbox
Thanks again for the info!
Best regards,
Bob Charest