Recent content by lighttech11

Hmm, interesting. So I understand now that inductance is only a worry if you're creating a coil with a single current carrying conductor. Meaning that, for example, when a neutral is running with it's hot, it's automatically counter acting the magnetic field that the hot is creating, since the...

Hey friends,Wanted to hear some opinions and thoughts on managing and dealing with all of your multi cable slack once its at the dimmer rack. I've seen lots of interesting and creative ways of dealing with it all, and was curious if there were some good pros or cons to any and all of them...

Hey there, so sorry. I only log on every so often, and I've been pretty busy lately. But your response was great, thank you so much! Yeah, I ultimately put together two separate resumes, one for design and one for electrics, and for the electrics one I think I found a good way of listing it...

I'm not a member of the Union yet, but I have done a fair amount of work through the union as an overhire electrician, and I wanted to see if anyone had suggestions or advice on how to list that on my resume. Should I bother listing individual shows/tours that I worked on locally? Or just...

Anyone out there have some favorite gel choices for arc followspots? Or any colors that they've found work well with arc followspots? Color correction, etc?

Hi there, I'm currently a Senior Theater lighting design major and I'm looking to improve my drafting skills. I'm curious about the different ways that different designers, assistants, and draftsmen organize their Vectorworks light plot file, specifically in terms of layers and classes...

Thanks everyone! For some reason I kept telling myself "no delta is too weird to be used on the ship" (as I am not nearly as familiar with delta as I am with wye, since it is not found in most theaters on land). It's quite obvious to me now what is going on. The ship is indeed generating 3...

The cabins are equipped with both 110V AND 220V outlets (for "convenience").frequency is 60HZOkay, I retook my readings, and I found approximately 226V between each hot leg. I then found that I actually am getting 226V between hot and ground on only two legs. So: L1-ground: 226V L2-ground...

Hi there,I'm working on replacing a dimmer rack system for theater on a cruise ship. I'm replacing a very old dimmer system with a new ETC Sensor 3 48 module installation rack. Just so we're all on the same page, the new rack is 230V, and requires 3 hot phases, a neutral, and a ground...

So, I want to set up some source 4's with rosco I Cue's on floor plates on the deck, to act as sort of deck moving lights or deck moving mirrors shooting upwards. They would act mostly as just atmospheric lights (i am using haze and fog). So I'm basically trying to mimic having moving lights...

This definitely sounds like the best course of action for all people on the deck... But what about the fly operator and weight loaders? (specifically a double-purchase system where the rail is above the deck) I would think it might be even more crucial for the flyman and weight loaders to...

Thanks All!!! Lots of great helpful info. Just what I'm looking for.

So, I'm curious about other people's preferences in terms of using a focus tool with ratcheting or without ratcheting. Specifically I was curious about the Ultimate Focus Tool's ratcheting, but I'm curious regardless if you have an ultimate focus tool or some other ratcheting tool (i.e. speed...

I was just watching the grammy's recently and I was wondering about a specific fog-like effect. They obviously had a lot of haze and also a lot of low-lying fog, but there were also these cannon-like fog effects that were shooting straight up. There looked like there were about 6-8 of them...

So we're doing a production of Dracula, and we're using several foggers in the show, and we have multiple fog cues. We're using a combination F-100 and Coldflow to make low lying fog, and it's current location is beneath a 3ft high platform pretty close to the side of the stage, but its still...