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Right now on our t2 I run one art net line from the console at foh to a rack onstage that has two 2-port art net nodes. two of the ports go to the movers, two of them go to dimmers. Recently we did a gig at a college running etc net, and we ended up running two physical universes (we used an...

I've been really swamped with work lately (never a bad thing), but here's some pics from our kids camp the last couple weeks.42'x16' Projector screen 6x Mac 550 8x Mac 250 Wash 8x Mac 250 Beam 6x Stagebar 54s 1x Jands Vista T2 1x Jands Vista S3 1x Martin Maxedia CompactI'm doing...

Dont hate on the Maxxyz! Though the maxxyz console isn't very stable, the M family is pretty good and flexible (Maxmodules, M-PC, M1, Maxxyz compact).

It really depends on the venues. Most venues that i've been to that have their own rig have mostly some form of a mac (700, 250, or 550).I just started using the Jands Vista a couple weeks ago, and it has a really cool feature called the generic fixture model. It means that you can program...

Here's from the Mac 2000 Profile II manual: (can be found here)For the electronic ballast you can run either 110 or 208. With the magnetic ballast you have to run between 200-260 volts. All cleared up?

Wow i feel like a tard now... I've always thought it was sketchy, thats that the old LD did and he said it worked. I'll be sure to clear that up next time I go in. Also we run it off a double pole though, but you have a good point about if one side gets unplugged.

Depends on which light the OP gets, he could get something with a switching power supply (i know you know that, just wanted to make it clear to the op) or he could take two different phases of 110 and combine them to 208 (we do that a lot)

If you are hot patching them as a nondim, just make sure you configure it as a non dim on the rack and the console and you will be fine, we run all of our 110 lights from our dimmer rack on nondim channels. We used a few 3500 wash fx for our christmas services and they looked great, were...

When designing for the church/concerts, the bigest aspect I focus on is flexibility. Since our sets go up for about three (or more) months at a time, they always need to be made so that we can get a variety of different looks out of them. We have moved away from the traditional white corrugated...

I was going to say Atomic 3000 strobes but a bunch of people beat me to it. We used 12 or so with scrollers for our christmas set at our church and they worked great, very bright, fast, and reliable.

We have a bunch of Mac 550's that go completely parallel to the ground when powered off. Probably the crappiest balance i've seen.

Haha, whenever we need to fly something we just throw a couple chain motors on it and then leave it there.

dLOF is probably the problem, I'll check it out when I go in today.We usually douse them after the saturday night services at our church and restrike them in the morning, about 12 hours later. I don't think leaving the lamps on for that long is a good idea.

Good point about the lamp adjustment. As for the silicone, i have no idea why/when that would have been done, it didn't look post factory. Fliping the breaker isnt an option because we have our lights set up to strike when they receive dmx, and the breaker for them is on the stage. Any other...

Hey Guys,We just bought 16 mac 250 washes with beam kits. I have a few questions:1. Is there a way to get all the color filters out? When replacing the colors with gobos on the wheel during the beam conversion, we couldnt get some of the colors out to replace because there was lots of...