by John Maggs | 29 Apr 2019 | Blog, News, Success Stories
Proper Pa for Bournemouth Scouts St Georges parade 2019 A few months ago Austyn Greenfield from Bournemouth Scouts rang and enquired if we can provide a suitable pa for the St Georges parade in Bournemouth this year. He explained there would be up to 1500 people in...
by John Maggs | 9 Mar 2019 | Blog, Success Stories
I Did the first band on the new Midas M32 at Canvas in Bournemouth last night “The Wonderband” . It was nice to get an email this morning from Pat the bassist from the band:- PatWBK@WB.UK <patwgtrstr@gmail.com Cheers John, was a great night and thanks...
by John Maggs | 18 Jan 2019 | Blog, Success Stories
It Was nice to be involved in some real entertainment yesterday (29th October 2015) at the Dudsbury Country Club on the first of their Cabaret nights with Bafaana, the Dudsbury Dancing Girls and top of the bill Matt Black who was anything but “Dull” ....
by John Maggs | 17 Jun 2018 | Blog, Knowledgebase
Shure and channel 38 compatibility The Shure BLX K3E radio mic systems which have no frequency display are not quite as channel 38 compatible as they might appear in the sales blurb from suppliers . The problem is that all the groups do not use only frequencies in the...
by John Maggs | 10 Mar 2018 | Blog, News
What a great night down at Canvas last night.with Filta a 90s dance cover band playing for a a private birthday party in the live lounge. It took some doing though. The party guests arrived from 8, and the band could not get to us before then. So before 8,...
by John Maggs | 9 Mar 2018 | Blog, Knowledgebase, News
IEC leads. I remember when (kettle leads) first appeared, these were uses to connect the mains to a kettle and were rated at 13 amps. IEC leads had cable which had a cross sectional area of 1.5 mm and they were fitted with plugs with a 13 amp fuse . This arrangement...
by John Maggs | 11 Aug 2017 | Blog, News, Success Stories
It’s great when a customer makes the effort to comment about the work I do and particularly when they go out of their way to say “if there is there anywhere you’d like me to review you online? Happy to do so!”So here is a copy of his...
by John Maggs | 8 Feb 2017 | Blog, Knowledgebase
PAT – Portable appliance testing FAQs http://www.hse.gov.uk/electricity/faq-portable-appliance-testing.htm I think this will be helpful for you to understand the legal position with regards to Portable appliance testing. in particular the case studies are...
by John Maggs | 10 Dec 2016 | Blog, Knowledgebase
Loop Amplifiers :The good the bad and the downright ugly Loop Amplifiers are great for improving hearing for people, via their hearing aids using the “T” facility, in a church or conference environment, In these places you tend to have people speaking...
by John Maggs | 16 Sep 2016 | Blog, Knowledgebase, News
Combined signal and power cables “Why are the lighting and sound cables different” Well one thing to point out is that dmx uses rs485 and the physical layer of RS 485 requires a cable with a characteristic impedance of 120 ohms This prevents unwanted reflections of...