Electronic Control lighting equipment

[krhodus]

I have been working with our school's 20+ year old house light system.It is sold under a brand Electronic Control with a logo that is a E and a C. I tried to find this company under google and had no luck. Would this be the local theater store (Brite Lites) name or did they turn into another company. The theater manager thought they tured into ETC. Is this corrrect? Has anyone worked with any Electronic Control systems? All our house ligth system (Control panels in theater, dimmers, rack) are from this company. We know it is atleast 20 years old becuase it was installed when the theater was built.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Sam_]

I know there was an Electronic ControlS company, but I've never heard of "Electronic Control". I'd assume the EC doesn't stand for the company but for the classification since there is no documentation of a company called "Electronic Control". Do you have manual dimmer systems? If so, it'll probably be pretty hard to find information on a company that made those. When the first models came out, they were experimental so it wasn't usually companies that made them, but labratories.

[propmonkey]

we have parelipshperes that have the "EC" mark on them. ive been trying to find who made them.

[avkid]

I believe there are ETC employees active in the lightnetwork,so that might be a good place to start.

http://forums.delphiforums.com/lightnetwork/start

[ship]

Don't know the history but the above is a good start. Might also post to Stagecraft.

http://forums.delphiforums.com/lightnetwork/start
http://stagecraft.theprices.net/

[krhodus]

It is Electronic Controls. The board is so worn out that only half of the words were on it. I checked on a dimmer today.

I am going to try those forums.

Thanks,
Kevin

[SteveB]

If memory serves....

It was actually Electro Controls.

They made consoles, dimmers and the Parellipsphere spotlight.

They were located in Salt Lake City untill Strand brought them out and put them under (mid 80's ?).

Dimmers can be fixed, there's a Canadian company called Johnson Systems that can service and update the electronics.

http://www.johnsontsystems.com/hpls.html

The consoles are boat anchors.

The Parellipsphere's were a unique design for a zoom ellipsoidal. Very little light output though... Now they're a boat anchor for light sea conditions.

SB

[propmonkey]

little light output?? there some of our best instruments

[Les]

I though Colortran made the parellipsphere?

[squigish]

Originally Posted by SteveB

It was actually Electro Controls.

Yep. Electro controls did our initial lighting installation too, our school was build in 1970. We have gotten some new equipment since then, but the house light dimmers and the circuit strips are all electro controls, and a bunch of our instruments have that same EC logo you talked about.

I too have been having a really hard time finding anything about them on the web, let me know if you find anything.

Also, the one piece of Electro Controls equipment that's been a really big pain has been our circuit strips. They're called channel mounts, and they're sort of like unistrut, only incompatible with it and more of a pain to use. There's a kind of track in the bottom and top of the strip, and you put in a little metal do-hicky, and then suspend the instrument on a threaded rod or bolt. Sound familiar?

Also, the url that steveB posted has an extra "t" in it. I found johnson systems through google, though, and this is the correct url: http://www.johnsonsystems.com/hpls.html or you can just go to http://www.johnsonsystems.com and look around there.