Recent content by Ezra Newman

I'm entirely hands off, the only thing I've done sense the show closed is put a couple signs up (on the breaker box, etc) that says "don't touch before talking to Ezra".

Do you think we need to shut down even if we keep power off to all the conventional instruments in the grid?Honest question, not trying to second guess your professional advice.

Yep, we’re not touching it until the electrician clears it. It is a school.

That's my fear. That its bad and dangerous. IIRC that's what we measured with a multi meter.

yes, that's the plan.

I'll take you up on that...

Oh, two more things that have been bouncing around in my head:For our last musical, around this time last year, we did something truly, profoundly stupid. This wasn't my call, but still. I should have made a bigger fuss about it being dumb.It's opening night (because of course this problem...

Quite the adventure. We decided we should stop touching it after this....And so we brought in a professional lighting tech. We cut power to *everything* and we found this.The spot wasn't plugged in to the burned one but was plugged into the duplex paired to it (the other plug in the...

🎵*your fault* and it isn’t mine at all...We’re doing into the woods XDI’m still alive and so are our spot ops. We brought in a qualified adult, I’ll post a proper update in the morning or Sunday morning. I have pictures.... they’re a little scary, the problem got worse before it got better...

Yeah, its still scary. Just realized that it sounded like it might be shooting sparks or something which would point to a different problem. Additional info was intended to help diagnose the problem, not say that it wasn't a big deal.

We've had a few smallish sparks between the bolt and the yoke, not shooting sparks. We replaced the plug on the lamp so I doubt it's two bad plugs. Will double check anyway.

We've had two smallish sparks, its not shooting sparks or anything.

Hey guys, our show opened last night and I had a problem I've never seen before.Some context: we have Source 4 19 degree 750 watt conventional spots. Our grid that the spots are mounted on is metal pipe with a thin, easily scratched coat of paint on it. I think its not unreasonable to say that...

Hey guys, our show opened last night and I had a problem I've never seen before.Some context: we have Source 4 19 degree 750 watt conventional spots. Our grid that the spots are mounted on is metal pipe with a thin, easily scratched coat of paint on it. I think its not unreasonable to say that...

it’s under my name, I censored myself.