Recent content by Diarmuid

Hi guys, As all the Panto's are quickly approaching, I've been trying to get my Mac to work as a strand remote console, based on the document here that says I can quite happily use virtual PC to make a wonderful remote console. The problem I'm having is that I can't find any copies of Virtual...

Thanks for all your comments.:) The plan suggested was to put scaffolding across two of the joists, as our roof is only about 7m off the deck, of course it hasn't actually been load tested... It was something fairly simmilar to this that the director used as a reason it should be fine "but...

I'm working quite a lot at a local school theatre, and have been asked to build/buy/beg/borrow the set for an upcoming school show. In general it's all fairly straightforward stuff, the odd armchair, a couple of pendant light bulbs etc. However the director also wants a wire rope ladder as...

We normally try and do that in private instead of at work... :p (Someone had to say it... we were all thinking it :twisted:)

When you say a "falling height" do you only mean a lack of guard rails? Or are you also implying a certain height above the deck? Whilst I can only speak for the situation in the UK, anything above the floor is considered working at height, literally anything, so if I'm standing on that toolbox...

Heya, I'm sure someone more experienced will be along soon to give a better answer, but in the mean time... The fact you only get one click on 'strike' seems bad to me, so I'd suggest swapping this ignitor/starter into a good lamp ciruit if you have another fixture around and see how that...

Well I certainly know where you're coming from! A couple of years back, before I switched to doing mainly lighting, every time a show was coming up, this became a problem. Unfortunately it's not a problem that can necessarily be easily solved. People are of course creatures of habit, and...

I've always been told that using fall-arrest systems with these is a bad idea, especially if its going to be moved with people up the top. With fall arrest you either have to attach yourself to the rails of the tower, or an overhead point. If you're onto the rails and you fall, you pull the...

Hiya all, I'm trying to find a bit of information about generators. Like I know the basics of how a generator works, how to take a 3 phase generator and get it hooked up to a distro, check everythings working ok and all that, however I'd quite like to know more about larger set-ups, with...

Surely if you just ran the lights up to 15% or some simmilar figure, you wouldn't be pulling as huge an amount of power, and then you can just pop down to stage and check that its all good. Also you don't get quite as much retina burn or the hassle of having to go 1 thru 5 at full, 6 thru 10 at...

What with working in a school theatre, whenever I leave for longer than lunch, I tend to power down/lock whatever I can, especially because the dimmers (what with being full of high voltage circuitry) are in the same room as most of the drama lessons and are covered in buttons that just look...

Reccenty we've changed the way we've patched shows (after I complained a lot) at my venue. On our old desk (Zero 88 Illusion120), everything was patched so channel 1 was socket 1 (though technically it wasn't a 1:1, due to the way our dimmers are laid out based on phases across the grid)...

I've used GrandMA 3d several times (though admittedly with varying levels of success), and as far as I know, its operating on a totally different system to hog 3pc, and therefore I doubt they'd work together. Hope that helps.

I worked on a rig for the most part made up of LED pars earlier this year, and controlled them off of a strand 500 series desk. From the sounds of it, you don't need the intensity channels on your fixtures to actually do anything, (which is a simmilar situation to the fixtures we were using)...

Hiya, Just a quick question that I came across today. Looking at the Mac 250 wash specs, the maximum surface temperature is rated at 160 degrees centigrade. However when I've previously used them, their body surface temperature was nowhere near that hot. I was wondering if you knew why...