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    Vintage Lighting What are these?

    The one of the centre and the right are Genarco the one on the felt is a Strong Super Trouper
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    Ethernet HDMI extender recommendations

    https://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=101&cp_id=10914&cs_id=1091401&p_id=15778&seq=1&format=2I have used these manytimes with no glitches
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    Quick question- what can I run in a cable raceway?

    In most cinema booth i use the wiremold 4000 raceways that have a optional barrier that seperates it into two divisions one is low voltage /data/audio the other is line voltage At least in Canada one cannot have line voltage in the same raceway as lowvoltage...
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    Projector Connection for Auditorium Users- is there a better way?

    I have used these many times and have found they did what they claimed reliablyhttps://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=101&cp_id=10914&cs_id=1091401&p_id=15778&seq=1&format=2
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    Cupholders

    caddy products make many seat cup holders and accessories http://www.caddyproducts.com/theatre.php
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    Control/Dimming Pulsing Dimmers - This one is a major head scratcher.

    I would have a electrician install a high quality TVS on the panel the feed the dimmer pack may help
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    Vintage Lighting Identifying an Old Light Board

    Litecon who distributed Major Dimmers and Fixtures had a molded case illuminated pot that like ward leonard basically had a wirewound resistor that one side was non glazed that a wiper ran up and down against
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    Worries about a new system proposal for our high school.

    0-24vdc was common in Ward Lenard and early Skirpan dimmers Some of the Major dimmers (LiteCon in Canada) SHD dimmers were 0-48 vdc also it was not uncommon to find a negative control voltage with a positive ground
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    Conventional Fixtures Relamping/avoiding fingerprints on Lamps

    Make sure it is 99% Alcohol as a lot of what one gets is on 75% the rest is water that slows down the evaporation Also white cotten editor gloves are handy
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    Rack Drawings

    I use ProgeCad proffesional as it offers full Acad DWG/DFX support and almost every manufacturer offers cad drawings of there products in those formats It is very reasonable price wise I used the USB key version that allows multiple machines to have it installed and a dongle activates it when I...
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    Old lighting catalogues.

    grand first
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    suggestions for a low $$ multi-meter

    I have always had great faith in this one http://en-us.fluke.com/products/digital-multimeters/fluke-179-digital-multimeter.html
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    Inexpensive architechtural control options?

    A low cost solution (but not typically DMX based) is to use multi preset dimmers often used in ballrooms and cinemas they usually have 3 or 4 preset levels set by pots on the pcb and fade between them on a dry contact closure and they also allow for a manual pot control The Stanley Ash TEC8112...
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    Control/Dimming Question about budget dimmers...

    In all comercial spaces all wireing is supposed (at least in Ontario) a minimum of #12 Many of the DJ cheap dimmers have very undersized Triacs with less than ideal heatsinking (in some cases I have noticed heat marks on the exterior cases) Also the filtering is usually a round Bobine or a bar...
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    FFS: (2) Lycian Midget HP 575

    could you get a shipping price for me to ship to 80 front st e toronto ontario canada m5e 1t4 and I would also pay you for your time on paperwork to ship thankyou [email protected]
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