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    Air conditioning

    Thank you all so much, this has been quite informative! Hopefully now I'll be able to negotiate something that is more beneficial to the space
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    Air conditioning

    After begging for air conditioning/ heat for years, the school has finally agreed to put it in, but seeing as the head of maintenance originally wanted to put in a loud exhaust system instead, I'm a little wary of what they might try to put in on the cheap, any ideas of what to look for?
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    What size disco/mirror ball?

    Mirror Ball SizingAny rule of thumb for sizing mirror balls?
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    Control/Dimming Help with Dimmers

    Another question, the Leprecon seems to have two outputs per channel, yet we only have one per channel in use, any thoughts as to why that may be?
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    Control/Dimming Help with Dimmers

    One is a Leprecon MX 1200, the other an ETC Smartpack, 12 channels
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    Control/Dimming Help with Dimmers

    Having pseudo-inherited responsibility for our blackbox at school, and being 0.5 of a barely passable tech, I have no idea what to do for dimmer maintenance. They are at least 10 years old and there are no apparent records for these things. Help!
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    Aging fixture questions

    Thank you all so much, its nice to know that we're in good shape.
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    Aging fixture questions

    That was someone that was holding the light whilst I took the picture, but you are right, there should be no sandals whilst working with lights, so the paint chipping off is not an issue?
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    Aging fixture questions

    Most of the fixtures used in our blackbox were purchased either when it was built, or from before it was rebuilt into its current form, that being 17 years ago. As they are true workhorses, they are beginning to show signs of their age, just recently during strike I noticed thisShould I be...
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    Strange Goings On

    It appears that the signal is good, though it does flicker every now and then, could it be the board? We never had these issues with the express, only when we swapped in the back up board.
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    Strange Goings On

    The lights that go out are on the ETC dimmer.
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    Strange Goings On

    I don't think so, it's a bit hard to tell though as the general lighting plot has undergone many permutations this year, meaning that distribution from one dimmer ends up in what is traditionally the others area.
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    Strange Goings On

    An ETC SmartPack, 12 channels, at least 8 years old if not more, and a 12 channel leprecon, I think its the MX series, can't be sure though, its at least the same vintage as the ETC. Both use DMX.
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    Strange Goings On

    We have been forced to use our ancient (relatively speaking) back up board, a Lee Colortran 24/48, as our regular board is out due to a broken power supply. Anywho, whilst in the middle of rehearsal, of which I was taking part, we noticed the lights flickering for a few moments. Shrugging it off...
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    Hello Everyone!

    Hello one and all! I am a Northern California high school senior that somehow has ended up in charge of my school's blackbox theatre. My friend and I spent the summer repairing, organizing, cleaning, and updating the blackbox and our costume department and now spend the majority of our time...
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