Recent content by charlesb

C.W. and Van,The last two posts offered some real insight into my project. Thank you both.In my business, we use Cat Entertainment for our generator rentals and they have a master electrician on staff here in Dallas that would help me figure out the brush configuration, but we are only...

Van, Joe, ScenerymakerVan,1) The only people who will ever be on stage are my wife and I; aka Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus 2) I have been in the concert sound and lighting business all my life both as a technician and business manager 3) The chain drive idea is the second idea I had. I just...

That might be a little too much for a Christmas light display at my house!;) Charles

Van, I can't use a 3 phase motor because the electrical service to my house is 240v single phase and I don't want the expense of a transformer on top of the necessary expense I will already have. I agree, the revolve will be much like an auto revolve. I want to try to utilize the 20'...

Footer, This stage will be in the front yard. The 2008 stationary stage was on the roof. I understand your advice, but I would like to further clarify my idea. If it can be done in such a way as to not have to build a stage upon which you would place a turntable platter on those 60+...

Van,Yes, I searched and read every thread on revolving stages I could find on this forum. I haven't seen the WIKI yet. I will look for that. The WIKI link above doesn't work for me.I didn't find any details on a gear box for reducing the DC motor RPM's down to 1 RPM, nor any detail on the...

Hello, I am Charles Belcher from Dallas, Texas. I do an Extreme Christmas Light display at our house during the season. This year had around 60,000 lights synchronized to music via Light-o-rama software. We had around 300 channels of conventional LOR micro processor units and 3200...

I will post my question in the scenery section.