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February 24th, 2009, 01:04 AM
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weird power outs
so at my school we have all colortran equipment. we run a innovator lighting board and i believe we have colortran dimmer (but we are able to get to them). well one morning i walked into our theatre to do some work and found the strip lights on our second electric strobing. the board was off and i tried turning off the lights using the presets. but they still strobed on. so i ended up unplugging them. i left them unplugged for a month and a guy did a dance concert in our theatre and he used them. so they were working and not strobing. i found out that the school had a power outage the nught before they started strobing. then a couple of days ago i was working on a set and the power went out (bad storm). everything was fine until the generators kicked in and the storm light went on. well sure enough on the same electric and i believe same fixtures the strips light started to strobe. now im new to tech and im the only thing this school has but to me it sounds like something is wired wrong. can you guys think of any reasons of why this is happening? i told them to bring in the company that did the install but nothing has been done about that yet.
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February 24th, 2009, 01:07 AM
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Re: weird power outs
This happens in my space from time to time when I turn off the light board. Random things will come on, go off, flash, flicker, etc. Turning the light board on and then back off usually fixes it.
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February 24th, 2009, 01:11 AM
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Re: weird power outs
light board is not on during the power out and i tried that and it didnt make a difference.
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February 24th, 2009, 01:14 AM
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Re: weird power outs
My point was that sometimes sending a fresh control signal to the dimmers is enough to stop them from misbehaving.
Do the lights continue to strobe when the board is on with all channels set to 0?
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February 24th, 2009, 01:15 AM
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Re: weird power outs
yes the only way i got them to stop without going into the dimmer was to unplug them.
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February 24th, 2009, 01:19 AM
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Re: weird power outs
Interesting. Sounds like you need access to the dimmer room to reset them when this happens. Why don't you have access to them? Who do you have to get in contact with to get access to them?
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February 24th, 2009, 01:27 AM
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Re: weird power outs
I would just like to say that if you are "new" at lighting, electrical and tech in general, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT go poking around in any wiring cabinets/junction boxes/dimmer racks/distribution panels/etc. Carelessness/inexperience with electricity is one of the easy ways to get yourself killed.
CONSULT A QUALIFIED ELECTRICIAN.
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February 24th, 2009, 01:28 AM
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Re: weird power outs
well they r locked in a mechanical room that the school decided the drama teacher or the fine arts teachers didnt need a key for. but that door isnt the problem cause i can get a janitor with the master key to open it. not the dimmer racks have locking doors on them. they r locked sometimes then left wide open other time. the school does not have the key for them and didnt even know that it was there until i came along. i think the county has the key to them because they came into r theatre to look at something and after they left i got in there and they were wide open.
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February 24th, 2009, 01:32 AM
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Re: weird power outs
The next time it happens, try pressing the RESET button on the racks.
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February 24th, 2009, 01:35 AM
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Re: weird power outs
Curious, how old is your venue? What brand dimmers and control do you have?
Are the strip lights plugged into the electrics or is it all hard wired?
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