Recent content by atsugi

Figured it out, I was quite dumb in my cabling, What happened is I didn't think I rushed through things and yep had a four pin going into one power supply and the second was going out of the other. So a word of advice to all when trying to minimize the effect of adding power supplies and...

Scrollers are the Same Power supply no. So would a faulty 4 pin cable do this? Or did I accidentallythat is the question of the day my friend

I am running several scrollers and the LD needed to add more so I needed another power supply. so I hooked up the dmx to it ( power supply not yet connected to edison) and went from the out of the PSU to the in on the scroller (4 pin) It arced and got the tell tale blue puff of smoke from the...

I make the font large enough to read from my height (6'1") It is 16pt and the instrument is in red font. The crew hasn't said anything about it being too small, but yeah, my fear is kicking and stepping on the burlap. But the taping it to the floor is very quick.

Sweet thank you, you saved me hours of manually entering in the channels.

so I am at a company that uses several venues with IATSE crews, We use our version of hang tags which is a 3" piece of burlap taped to the floor and has pieces of paper attached to it with the hanging position information on it. It is a quick and dirty method but was wondering if there was...

So I have followed the instructions on the other threads and converted my show file to ascii using obsession 2 offline editor, I then opened up the EOS family off-line editor and went to import>usitt ascii>as library fixtures>show file location>show file.The editor then did its magic importing...

that is what is going to happen. we are setting up an exhibit here in the US for testing and then sending it over to Europe. What would be needed if we would want to keep the whole exhibit 120v and convert from 240v at the source?

hi quick question can the smartbar 2 convert 240v input down to 120v output?

so i am LD on a show and our scenic designer did all of her work in Autocad which means I have one drawing with a top plan view and an elevation on it. I have extruded my elevation but can not get Vectorworks to set it as my front view. I extruded everything selected and pasted in a new document...

Hmm never relized that going through a non dim would be an issue. Went to the wall and addressing was easy once I found a list of the address switches on the lightronics website. Thanks for the in site on the non dim issue I appreciate it

I am hooking up 2 lightronics to a cd80 portable dimmer rack I have plugged them into 4 open circuits and set those to non dim however my strand 550i doesn't recognize the lightronic 420 packs. My dmx is connected to the board properly but yet nothing. I think it might be the dip switch...

thanks it is 2010 but I figured it out I had a texture assigned to it fixed the class and it working now thank you for your help it made me think a little bit!

That is what i thought but everything i try to insert it shows up as just black. I have no clue what I am doing wrong. I know it is probobly something simple. but yeah the wall is rendering black and so is the cyc. any ideas?

I am trying to light a cyc in vectorworks and it is not rendering any ideas? do I need to put focus points on/near it. this is for a rendering project and really want it to look somewhat nice