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It seems a student overheard me telling one of the other faculty about the potential asbestos wiring and now the administration is freaking out over the potential issue it could cause. Is there any reason to have concerns for the health of students who operated the light, but didn't open it, go...

So the internal wiring is probably asbestos, the external cord is the wrong gauge, and it looks like the insulation is stating to crack in a few places. It probably needs to be totally rewired to be used safely. I also just found out we don't have any more lamps for it and they cost around $50...

Unfortunately, I have pretty much none of this information available. I'm home now and won't be back in the building until Monday. The only thing I'm sure of is the dimmer rack and dimmers are ETC.

I guess I phrased that ambiguously. I'm not sure of lengths, but I believe each borderlight has 15 lamps, three colors, so 60 lamps on one electric and 20 lamps of each color. I guess that would mean 20 lamps per circut, but I'm not sure if the lamps are 100W. I actually think the spares we have...

I actually did try this. There ends up being some overlap causing some spots to be brighter and darker than others, but even so the back row of the band is noticeably less bright than the front/middle.

The border lights are set up so that the four on second electric are using six channels, three for two of them and three for the other two. Oddly enough, they aren't paired by which side of the stage they are on. If I call them 1, 2, 3, and 4 going left to right 1 and 3 are on the same three...

14 at FOH 6 on first electric, 6 on second, 6 on third, 6 on fourth, 4 are used to control the house lights and apparently 2 were set up to open and close the front curtain, which has an electric motor.

There are only six on the first electric. The stage pin connectors come out from the dimer rack up to the connector strips and each has six cable coming out, each fresnel is on one of the six.

That sounds about right. The dimmer rack is locked, and last time I asked about it nobody had a key to open in. If I use the 3-fers I wouldn't be able to dim those three individually, right? Sounds inconvenient, but doable.

Our drama club has just done the best we can with the set up we have so far. There are no spare fixtures. I thought about moving some of the source fours to the first electric, but that would mean taking down some of the Fresnel on the first electric, and I'm not sure whether of not that is...

I'm not quite sure how to explain it. The connectors are stage pin connectors but they are attached to connector strips with only about a foot of cable. I guess I could probably get a bunch of extensions. But my first 14 dmx channels are connected to the front of house and I wouldn't be able to...

The school I work for had a new auditorium built a few years ago and I keep feeling like there has to be a better set up for the lights. I'll probably use the wrong terms for some things, so I apologize for that. We have 14 source four jrs on the first electric which is over the audience about...

I don't have a clue who did that or how long it's been like that. Is there any way I could easily check the cable to see if it is 12 gauge or 14 gauge?

I'm not totally sure I get what you mean. Are you saying the filament should be parallel to the lenses? Or perpendicular?

I mean that between the two of them, the positioning doesn't match. The conza lens is facing one direction in one and the other way in the other. Both have one greenish lens and one white and in one the greenish is in front, the other in the middle. The all four plano lenses are the same...