The show travels with 5
ETC Sensor
dimmer recks of 72 dimmers per rack with
Advance Features dimmers. 1 rack is for front of
house while the other 4 are for the
stage. We
power all of the moving lights from the
dimmer racks so all movers run on 110 volts (the standard in the US and Canada) and can be turned off from the obsession
console.
Before someone says "Hey you can't run the moving lights from dimmers!" let me say now that under the right conditions, yes you can. You need the right dimmers and those dimmers must be configured properly, in our case the dimmers are set to
switch mode at the rack and the
console is using a
profile that will never allow the
dimmer to dim, the only options are 0% or 100%. I never manually change anything with these dimmers and when I do need to turn a
fixture off I use a
macro to perform the task. This ensures that I never
fade the
power down, this also makes it really fast.