Recent content by echellis

I have been using OpenBravo, Openbravo POS: Open Source Point-of-Sale, for our POS system in our concession stands. You can network them together. I had some old POS stations from our school food service system that work great. It takes a little work getting going, but the reporting features are...

We did this 5 years ago. When the floor was first installed it was never sanded, just painted over. So we have had problems from the start with it. All the tungs on the boards are splitting up.

I have read most of the posts regarding this issue, but I am looking for people professional opinion on what to do. We have an 11 year old stage floor, either pine or spruce, that needs replacing. Gafe tape pulls up pieces of the floor and it's just plain failing. We paint the floor black, so we...

I think I am just going to get a pair and try it. I have a box of cat6 cable that I can run it over. So hopefully it will work a little better over that then CAT5e

Ya I have QLab that I am going to try with Midi timecode. I am just waiting for the USB-MIDI adapter to come in the mail.

Is it possible to do SMPTE sync with an ETC Element? I see it in the show control prefs but no documentation is in the user guide.

I have read some of the posts here regarding the use of video baluns, but my question is how well do they really work? I want to get monitors in my dressing rooms that are ~250' away from the camera we have in the back of our theater. Also what brands work the best for people.

Thanks for posting this for everyone. I am doing this show in the fall and this will be a huge help. Thank you.

Thanks everyone for some good starting ideas for me to dive into the world of intelligent lighting, sorry moving lights! =) I can wait to start playing with them in a few days when they come.

We are using intelligent lights for the first time in our fall musical. We have 1 Intellabeam that we use once in a while just to play around with, but have never really used it in shows. So I don't have any real design experience with intelligent lights. So since we had extra money in the...