Recent content by Joyce Thrift

Some of the lamps come out clearly burnt--gray, cloudy, maybe some bubbling. I'm careful about not touching the lamps, but I don't know what happened before I got there. Some others look OK and I will try to clean the contacts and replace them--this works occasionally. A few have broken off and...

I've heard that the previous staff also had a lot of trouble with lamps burning out. The lights are used for a lot of events, but they are not getting used for classes or left on all night. The board is turned off nightly. The lamps are FEL. So it seems like over-voltage could be it. Does this...

I have a new position at a big (700 seat) 20 year-old High School theater and the lamps in my Strand Lekos and Zooms are burning out so fast! I spent most of the fall reorganizing the basic house lighting design and making sure everything was working, but by March many instruments already...