Stevens R. Miller
Well-Known Member
Let me say first that I fully respect the fact that high levels of current are involved in stage lights, and that I have no intention of fooling around with something that calls for skills I do not have.
What I am wondering about is how difficult it is to change dimmer assignments. Our system is a Colortran I48 Quad (vintage about 2003, I think). Our number one electric has fifteen instruments hung on it. For reasons that are lost to the mists of history, some of them are paired onto the same dimmer(*). In fact, they are linked like this, from stage right to stage left:
The observant reader will note this uses dimmers 13 through 21, except for dimmer 12. If we have a "dimmer 12," I can't find anything it controls.
As you might imagine, this pairing of lights isn't what we want. So, the questions are: how do we change the assigments, and who would be likely to have the expertise required to do it? (I am in a middle school with no standing drama department, electricians, or anyone else with continuing responsibility for this; the last time we wanted to redirect the lights, we had to put in a work request to the administrative headquarters in order to get a technician who had the key needed to run the winches that lower and raise the bar. The I48 cabinet is not locked, however.)
Here are some pictures of our equipment:
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(*) It crossed my mind that our lighting console, a slightly cranky--if also venerable--Innovator 24/48, might have been patched so as to assign more than one instrument to a single fader. As far as I can tell, however, it is patched one-to-one, all the way.
What I am wondering about is how difficult it is to change dimmer assignments. Our system is a Colortran I48 Quad (vintage about 2003, I think). Our number one electric has fifteen instruments hung on it. For reasons that are lost to the mists of history, some of them are paired onto the same dimmer(*). In fact, they are linked like this, from stage right to stage left:
Code:
+---------------------------------------+
| |
+---|-------------------------------+ |
| | | |
19 17 15 14 13 11 10 21 20 18 17 16 15 14 13
| | | |
+---|-----------------------------------+ |
| |
+---------------------------------------+
The observant reader will note this uses dimmers 13 through 21, except for dimmer 12. If we have a "dimmer 12," I can't find anything it controls.
As you might imagine, this pairing of lights isn't what we want. So, the questions are: how do we change the assigments, and who would be likely to have the expertise required to do it? (I am in a middle school with no standing drama department, electricians, or anyone else with continuing responsibility for this; the last time we wanted to redirect the lights, we had to put in a work request to the administrative headquarters in order to get a technician who had the key needed to run the winches that lower and raise the bar. The I48 cabinet is not locked, however.)
Here are some pictures of our equipment:
View attachment 13223
View attachment 13224
View attachment 13225
View attachment 13226
(*) It crossed my mind that our lighting console, a slightly cranky--if also venerable--Innovator 24/48, might have been patched so as to assign more than one instrument to a single fader. As far as I can tell, however, it is patched one-to-one, all the way.