Recent content by DutchVander

He swapped the console out and everything started working again. Looks like the board is giving up the ghost. Thanks for your help everyone.

I'll have him try that next. Thanks for your help guys. Didn't think about the board being damaged. Its pretty ancient from what I've heard.

Tried one LED at the board with a new cable and nothing. Verified the fixture did have a terminator on it.

LED addresses are all still patched correctly. Breakers were all good as well. That's the first thing he checked. Bypassed fixtures down to the last one and still nothing.

One of my student techs is doing some pro bono lighting work for a local community theatre and has run into an issue no one can seem to figure out.He added an LED wash light to their grid and then everything stopped working. Even after removing the new LED fixture nothing is functioning...

Thanks everyone for your help. Problem appears to be battery memory as well as loose contacts to the batteries. After fixing those I was able to use it for 45 minutes and it never rebooted. Hopefully that's all that was wrong. Thanks again.

It works perfectly for about 5 minutes then it just starts to reboot non stop. 1. Are the the Batteries the ones that ETC Suggests, The rechargeable ones suck, but anything else will eventually burn out the Unit? The unit is sealed and charges from the base station so batteries can't be...

I recently found a RFR for our Ion sitting a box full of junk. I couldn't believe my predecessors would leave something like that in a box of junk. Then I tried to use it. After I turn it on, I can get through one or two commands then it starts to continuously reboot itself. Any ideas what...

Thank you. I'm glad someone was finally able to help me out on my original question. Tying yarn to the line seems like my best bet at this point. As much as I agree with all of the other posters, dealing with a school district owned theatre that they want run as a professional theatre using...

I completely agree with you guys. Unfortunately I'm not the teacher and I have to let them (including some with special needs that have comprehension issues) use the rigging because it's part of the required curriculum. I'm also not the only one with keys so there have been times when they get...

Thanks Guys. I've always used spike tape in every theatre I've been in and never had a problem either but we just had our rigging inspected and the inspector pointed out where small pieces of tape were coming off and gumming up everything. He told us to start using only ribbon spikes but the...

Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to spike Purchase Lines when dealing with high school kids?They've been using tape (Masking, Electrical, and even some really nasty Duct Tape until I banned it from the building) and it's wreaking havoc on my rope locks and head and tension...