Recent content by chrispo86

Re: Theater Related Engineering Jobs Near NYCThanks for the responses. I probably should clarify that my experience is more on the circuit-level (resistors, capacitors, transistors, etc and both digital/analog) than in power systems, however it is an avenue that I've been considering and...

Re: Theater Related Engineering Jobs Near NYCHmm... didn't think of checking out that direction, though it's definitely a possibility. Thanks for the suggestion.

Theater Related Engineering Jobs Near NYCHi all! I had a post similar to this back in 2009, but due to my current job situation, I figured I'd see what new info (if any) happened to be out there. My company recently announced it's moving most of its jobs off of Long Island, and as such I've...

We picked up a pair of Martin MAC 350 Entours at the end of the last year school year at the high school I work at. So far they've been great to us. We've used them in a handful of shows so far this year and knock on wood, I have no complaints about them. Plenty strong to cut through all of our...

This is probably a stupid question, but I was patching some new scrollers that we just got tonight into our Element. The gel string didn't exist in the library, so I went to create it while in the patch screen (select the appropriate channel, go into attributes, click scroller, click new). I got...

From what I heard on the news this morning, it was the line that snapped... Not sure where they got their info from though... Edit: Just read this now: Matinee canceled amid Spidey safety concerns Today's matinee was cancelled due to safety concerns

That's interesting, I see what you're talking about. I'll have to play around with that next time I'm in the theater. Thanks!

Yupp, don't know what happened there. I fixed the post so only the one link shows up.And thanks for taking a look!

So I finally had a chance to sit down and look at the show file. Unfortunately the shutter doesn't appear to be the culprit. In fact, all intensities for that fixture remain the same throughout the whole sequence of cues.I've attached the show file. It's cues 29, 30, and 30.1. The problem...

Interesting idea, I hadn't thought of that one. I'll have to take a look. Thanks.

I just finished up a performance of Rumors and had something interesting happen that I still can't quite figure out. We have two Martin SmartMACs that we're using on an ETC Element. There are three instances when a car is heard coming up the driveway, and when that happens, we use one of the...

It is a nice and clean site. It's easy on the eyes, which is always a plus. Definitely needs a landing page though. I could almost picture the "Past" tab as being the first thing you see when you get to the site (with some generic info about the theater as well).I'm curious, how is this set...

Same at the school I do work at. No students (and really faculty other than facilities) are allowed up in the catwalk or the lifts. From what I understand students used to be allowed up there many years ago but then someone fell through the ceiling at a different high school nearby and since...

The district electrician at the high school I work with also happens to do work on all the really big shows for Grucci Fireworks. He came in with a bunch of these when we needed to make a fire in a trash can, they're used for flashy signage apparently: Amazon.com: COOPER WIRING DEVICES INC...

I guess I should mention that though we tack on a $1 to all of the show prices, we're a high school that doesn't rent out our space. That's strictly for all of the school shows. So there are no rental/labor charges worked in anywhere.