Recent content by dukeofmuffins

Alright I'm packing my multimeter next week as well. I'm going to confirm all of this. I'm waiting to hear back from an old teacher about the designer of the system. I know it was a third party contractor (will get that name too). Does ETC ever do installs themselves? I love how this...

Stage Pin connectors (3 pins) all around. Lights, strips, floor pockets, everything.

All that is visible in the catwalk rows are the black boxes with pigtails. They connect to the S4s hanging up there (60ish of them) The stage has 2 fly bars of PARnels, using the same 77v bulb (30 of those). There are no visible doublers. All of the drop boxes are connected to conduit...

Well I suppose I'll do some poking around. I know the bulbs are 77v, the board says Dimmer Doubling is enabled on both racks, and I know we don't have enough dimmer for all of the channels. So by logic, there are dimmer doublers SOMEWHERE in the installation. Going to double check the patch...

WOW! Thanks for all the responses guys. I just got out of work to read these. The system I currently work with is a high school auditorium. The tech support department has been cut back so far that they've been paying me and other alumni to come back and handle lights and sound for the...

Lets say we have an auditorium where all accessible dimmer circuits are Dimmer Doubled (ie 77v). If you wanted to say, use a 120v fixture or special lighting effect how would it be done? Besides rewiring the rack/adding a seperate dimmer. My understanding is that the AC wave is split at...

Ah that gives me all sorts of ideas then! Any chance you where I could procure the connector to make a breakout cable? I doubt ETC sells that directly right? I wish I knew about that back in my own high school days. Here I was running special built lit-up-broadway signs for 42nd Street...

I was wondering if anyone could give me an example use or two for the macro port on the back of Express consoles. The manual seemed a bit vague to me. I would think it is for remote triggering of the macro buttons on the board (M keys). Possibly to allow precise triggering based on remote...