Recent content by Derek220

Pretty low chance of it getting moisture on it, but not impossible. These fixtures are hanging about 16 feet above the floor in a sanctuary/worship center. A youth group meets in there about once a week and might* have gotten moisture in it. Some of the youth group attendees like to throw random...

Nice! Curious, should I be calling it a lamp?

At a place I volunteer at there's several PAR64 fixtures using 500W PAR64 lamps (hope that makes sense). Occasionally 1 lamp will burst/fail and someone needs to get a ladder out and replace the lamp. The lamp shroud cracked this past Sunday but the filament continued to operate. Honestly it may...

Another encouragement for the global rate master. I used to have an fx rate and fx size fader for every effect (so each effect could be brought in/out gradually and the rate could be adjusted). Thankfully I eventually found the global rate fader, put that on a magic sheet and now the fader banks...

Thank you so much for the code references. Perhaps each year of the IBC has similar requirements for illumination of means of egress, but out of curiosity which year were you looking at?A quick glance at NFPA 101 shows similar requirements to IBC in section 7.8 (In assembly occupancies 0.2fc...

What are the considerations (specifically life safety codes) regarding the light level in the house during a theatrical performance? (under normal power circumstances. Not when power fails and emergency batteries or generators kick in)Why I'm asking: I've been operating lights for a church and...

I run a program called luminosus on a laptop with a MIDI controller connected to it (AKAI APCmini) and connect the laptop wirelessly to an ETCnomad Puck. The problem is that luminosus often freezes (It seems to freeze when I'm moving more than 1 fader at a time on the MIDI controller). I'm...