jcslighting
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I am currently working on an event for this Saturday, the 2nd and am having some issues with a couple older movers. For background, I just finished using all of these fixtures for a 4 weekend run of a Christmas musical without issue. Now I moved a couple and am trying to get things going before Saturday.
1st - Silver body HES Intellabeam 700hx - powers up and works fine on initial start-up. DMX works fine and fixture responds normally. This is where it gets weird. After about 5min, the fan shuts off, then after a bit longer, the lamp shuts off as well. I switched out the fan for one I knew was good thinking that was the issue but I got the same response. The weird thing also is that the motor, fan, and lamp leds stay lit normally even after the shutdown. Any ideas what would cause this shutdown? If it was DMX it would normally shut off the lamp and then later cycle off the fan - not the reverse.
2nd - Black body HES Intellabeam 700hx - buzzing like an alarm clock - a really loud alarm clock! My thoughts - Transformer or Ballast?, Power Factor Cap? Light works fine it just makes way too much noise to use in an event setting. Quick fix? I have a few spare parts lying around to pull from.
3rd - HES Technobeam - Was working fine when pulled from an overhead electric, now I set it on the floor and it gives the following symptoms. . .
If it powers up correctly (lamp, home, int ), it only works for a short while then the lamp shuts off and the fixture won't respond to DMX at all. But most of the tries I had, it only started its power up and then when the lamp started to strike the whole process just stopped - mirror stopped moving and was dead etc. The whole time though the display was working along with the motor and receive leds.
Thanks for any suggestions or ideas. If I can't get any up and running I will just drop them from the plot and move things around to try and compensate but I would rather not.
I am currently working on an event for this Saturday, the 2nd and am having some issues with a couple older movers. For background, I just finished using all of these fixtures for a 4 weekend run of a Christmas musical without issue. Now I moved a couple and am trying to get things going before Saturday.
1st - Silver body HES Intellabeam 700hx - powers up and works fine on initial start-up. DMX works fine and fixture responds normally. This is where it gets weird. After about 5min, the fan shuts off, then after a bit longer, the lamp shuts off as well. I switched out the fan for one I knew was good thinking that was the issue but I got the same response. The weird thing also is that the motor, fan, and lamp leds stay lit normally even after the shutdown. Any ideas what would cause this shutdown? If it was DMX it would normally shut off the lamp and then later cycle off the fan - not the reverse.
2nd - Black body HES Intellabeam 700hx - buzzing like an alarm clock - a really loud alarm clock! My thoughts - Transformer or Ballast?, Power Factor Cap? Light works fine it just makes way too much noise to use in an event setting. Quick fix? I have a few spare parts lying around to pull from.
3rd - HES Technobeam - Was working fine when pulled from an overhead electric, now I set it on the floor and it gives the following symptoms. . .
If it powers up correctly (lamp, home, int ), it only works for a short while then the lamp shuts off and the fixture won't respond to DMX at all. But most of the tries I had, it only started its power up and then when the lamp started to strike the whole process just stopped - mirror stopped moving and was dead etc. The whole time though the display was working along with the motor and receive leds.
Thanks for any suggestions or ideas. If I can't get any up and running I will just drop them from the plot and move things around to try and compensate but I would rather not.