Recent content by erico3456

Three of the Mac 2000 profiles in my rig have recently stopped being able to strike their lamps. Lamps are all new. Lamp holder seems fine. Have checked all fuses and metered the voltage out of power supply, all good. No noise when I try to strike, also no errors. Thinking it's possibly either...

Hey all,I've been dealing with some networking issues on a show that I'm trying to get up and running.Details: -Running ETC Ion as primary w/ latest software (2.0.0.1) -Ion outputs DMX to a four port Net3 gateway input -Sensor 96 rack takes DMX from a four port Net3 gateway output -Sensor 12...

I have just started working on a show at a theater where most of the battens are a piece of crap, so while the director wants different background looks for each scene, she would like to try and minimize the amount of drops we have to hang, and instead wants me to try and provide simple...

I took all of the dimmer packs apart and cleaned them and then reset them through the inside, let them rest for a little while, and then got them working, still about 5 or 8 channels across all the dimmer packs ghosting but I'm not really worried about that right now, must move on for the show...

All of the dmx signal lights are on. I have since been able to get 3 of the 4 dimmer packs to reset themselves (they finally responded to the reset button) but the 4th dimmer pack (not the last one in the chain) is still being unresponsive. Even though i have gotten 3 dimmer packs working and...

I just looked through the manual and couldn't find anything about a max switch. I also saw that both the over temp and over voltage are on on all but one ( that one just has the over temp light on). i read in the manual that over voltage would cause them to be uncontrollable most likely the...

I'm working down at the theater today, and around noon 5 or 6 channels on my dimmer pack started ghosting and were uncontrollable from the board, so I turned off the dimmers and worked on some other things. When I turned on the dimmers later today about 30 channels were ghosting so I started to...

Thanks so much for your help everyone!

I would highly recommend not buying a moving light fixture because it is "cheap", our theater bought a couple moving fixtures that were "cheap" and not only do they not react anything like quality fixtures we've rented in the past and now most of them are constantly in and out of the shop being...

I am looking into getting a gobo for a projection effect I need in a upcoming show. I would be getting a steel gobo from Apollo and I was wondering if it is possible for me to place this gobo in a Martin Mac 250 en if I take out one of the standard gobos. I have tried to figure this out from the...

I wouldn't try to much incentives like Pizza and loud music because those recruits might be pretty short lived. What I can suggest though is to put on a fun, cool looking show, whether it's after school or as a assembly where the kids can see some of the really neat things tech kids get to do. i...

Welcome to ControlBooth Nick, I hope you take some time to look around the site and check out the search function. We look forward towards you contributing to the site and learning a little to help with productions you work on. I hope you will find the site useful, there is certainly a lot of...

Welcome to ControlBooth, I hope you will enjoy taking a little time to check out our many great discussions we have here. It seems like you have a great deal of experience, hopefully you can share that in our forums and maybe even learn a thing or two to use in the future. Thanks for joining the...

We did a show not to long ago where we used two dmx gobo rotators mounted on source fours with glass water gobos in them, and we were able to get a really nice looking water ripple effect for a pretty low cost. I'm not sure what brand everything was, because I wasn't in charge of them, but If...

Welcome to ControlBooth, I hope you take some time to look around the site and its great resources. Be sure to share your knowledge and learn a little yourself in the many great discussions. If you have any questions be sure to ask. Thanks for taking the time to join this great site that...