[Question submitted by one of our readers. If you have a potential question or topic you'd like to see discussed in the QotD area, feel free to submit it by PM to any member of CBmods/Sr.Team.]
"Reading your post in the touring cyc lights thread gave me an idea for a QotD. It's something that I would have loved to be able to do, and it might garner some interesting answers.
You are the Production Electrician for an upcoming theatrical tour.
You get this partial plot from the LD:
[Yes, it's an odd way to draft a lighting ladder, and the scale on the right side of the drawing is one of the oddest I've seen, but what can you expect? It came from a designer!]
Generate a lighting shop order [including iron, cable, instruments, accessories, expendables, using standard stock equipment a major lighting shop would have readily available. Assume the top of the ladder is 75' from "dimmer beach". You do not need to include the 2 LX Truss or cable pick/management] AND a circuiting diagram/hookup schedule/whatever paperwork you want, AND explain your method for making this system work. Note that all the Source Four units are 550W/77V lamps using dimmer doubling. Unit no. 3 is a Martin MAC2000 Performance with factory gobos."
Students/amateurs only until 12/02/11, please. Since this may be a difficult/time consuming effort, a lovely prize will be awarded to the (US-only) member providing the best (solely at [user]derekleffew[/user]'s discretion, which means "spelling and grammar count") answer.
"Reading your post in the touring cyc lights thread gave me an idea for a QotD. It's something that I would have loved to be able to do, and it might garner some interesting answers.
You are the Production Electrician for an upcoming theatrical tour.
You get this partial plot from the LD:
[Yes, it's an odd way to draft a lighting ladder, and the scale on the right side of the drawing is one of the oddest I've seen, but what can you expect? It came from a designer!]
Generate a lighting shop order [including iron, cable, instruments, accessories, expendables, using standard stock equipment a major lighting shop would have readily available. Assume the top of the ladder is 75' from "dimmer beach". You do not need to include the 2 LX Truss or cable pick/management] AND a circuiting diagram/hookup schedule/whatever paperwork you want, AND explain your method for making this system work. Note that all the Source Four units are 550W/77V lamps using dimmer doubling. Unit no. 3 is a Martin MAC2000 Performance with factory gobos."
Students/amateurs only until 12/02/11, please. Since this may be a difficult/time consuming effort, a lovely prize will be awarded to the (US-only) member providing the best (solely at [user]derekleffew[/user]'s discretion, which means "spelling and grammar count") answer.