Recent content by abeness

Thanks for all the great input, folks. We've got task lights, too, on our lighting and sound consoles, as well as desk lights, but ambient booth light is still useful. Blue halogens are certainly available at reasonable cost. There seem also to be clip-on blue lenses for MR16. LEDs are of course...

Hi, folks. I'm planning to install glass color filters on our booth LV halogen lighting, but before I go permanent I thought I'd ask here if anyone has a preference for the color of booth background lighting. We're using a couple of jury-rigged layers of 201 CTB gel now, but I'd be happy to try...

I've "discovered" (in the manual, hah hah) that the Element will export shows in USITT ASCII, which should be adequate for our rig, and is usable by various software options discussed here and elsewhere. I should have enough to play with!

I'm exploring disaster recovery options for backup lighting control from a computer (preferably Mac, but not essential) in the event our Element 60 desk were to fail. Yes, given sufficient time, we could rent a replacement desk, but let's assume there's no time, and that we have a backup Element...

This is obviously an old thread, but for the historical record in case of future need I'll post our own experience. Obviously, always start with the simple stuff...We recently built a theater in our new school building, and two of these Lycian Midget 1209 spots were included. Neither fired up...