Ravenbar
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THe school I work with just bough a pair of ChauvbetDJ Geyser P7's and borrowed another that's a couple years old from another school.
During tonight's rehearsal, the borrowed machine started having a very limited discharge time. It's being uses withing a scenic element, the bridge scene from Shrek over the lake of molten lave, being pushed by skeletons across in front of the curtain. Power source for this and the alter scene are Ryobi multiple 40v inverter packs, putting out over 2k watts(fog machine draws 1300w.)
I did some testing after the rehearsal, and found the machine in question would put out 8 seconds of fog, before shutting down back into a reheat state, so the limitation is the heating elements ability to remain hot enough to generate fog for that long. I did test one of the new machines, and it didn't seem to generate fog for much more time than the borrowed machine. I suggested intermittent firing, via the remote,
During tonight's rehearsal, the borrowed machine started having a very limited discharge time. It's being uses withing a scenic element, the bridge scene from Shrek over the lake of molten lave, being pushed by skeletons across in front of the curtain. Power source for this and the alter scene are Ryobi multiple 40v inverter packs, putting out over 2k watts(fog machine draws 1300w.)
I did some testing after the rehearsal, and found the machine in question would put out 8 seconds of fog, before shutting down back into a reheat state, so the limitation is the heating elements ability to remain hot enough to generate fog for that long. I did test one of the new machines, and it didn't seem to generate fog for much more time than the borrowed machine. I suggested intermittent firing, via the remote,
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