Recent content by AlecIrwin

I think that in regards to safety in the theater it is vitally important to make a distinction between rules for "safety" and rules for more operational purposes, or preference of the director. I have seen many directors who give a list of instructions in regards to hanging lights and have a...

At my high school the objective is for everyone to know how to do everything that they are interested in learning, which I personally think is the right way to do it. If a technician has no interest in stage management, lighting, sound, set work... and so on, they are not forced to learn it, but...

The light doesn't even look like it was designed to swivel. Why would you have a spotlight inside a pilot house with a switch on the outside of the actual fixture? Maybe the switch was actually installed later, as well as the stage-pin connector?

Night time is the best time for educational experiments! Now you know!

Ok. Here's my longshot theory.The fixture has a "screw type" of mounting, as opposed to a C-clamp, which makes me assume that it was permanently installed. The stage pin connector means that it was probably used in a theater. The connector probably does NOT say 12v, (12 volts), but might say...

Wow, I was way off. The tape on the front of the light made me assume that it must not be the front. (By the way, you might wanna take that off.)That wooden connector looks like a stagepin connector without the ground. The stage pin plug means it was probably used for a theatrical application...

Can you take a picture of what it looks like "head on?" I am no expert on this, but the parabolic shape on what appears to be the back of it makes me think it is some sort of PAR? Again, what does it look like where the bulb is? (This was my wild guess. I have no clue. If the back "is" parabolic...

What a tragedy... And an interesting story.There is no absence of possibilities for how this could have happened. I am going to be following this, it's impossible to conclude what went wrong without details. Faulty extension cord, faulty GFCI, faulty grounding of the water pump, and frankly...

It was a common occurrence as of 2 months ago, when we had just started running mini-musicals. It was definitely a problem then, but we are counting tickets now and making sure there is plenty of space.Sorry, I wrote this post originally 2 months ago, since then we have had time to meet and...

You don't seem argumentative, but I promise you we are not breaking any rules. The show that happened several months ago, and caused me to write this post, was a surprise to all of the staff. We did not expect to be as full as we were. We are a relatively new company, in a new facility, so a...

Oh! I feel like I should have thought of that... That makes sense! Thank you!

200+ wireless microphones? That has got to be insane!Well, as luck would have it, the solution, sort of, revealed itself to me yesterday.In the middle of the show a couple of the mute buttons on the board died, so we had no (subtle) way of silencing the performers backstage.This led me to...

Thank you!!! I will try those frequencies! However, if I was trying to use a TV frequency, why is it so "sporadic"? Wouldn't it be a constant interference, as opposed to bouncing in and out at random intervals?

I chose the frequencies by scanning through on each receiver until I found a frequency that didn't display any junk in the "RF" signal meter. I will refer to those websites, thank you!

Here are the frequency settings (as they are now) on the Audio Technica recievers -680.000 Mhz 678.000 Mhz 660.000 Mhz 674.000 Mhz 663.000 Mhz 665.000 MhzThis is after I have changed them a few times. I am aware that some frequencies are illegal to use, but between my school and every other...