Recent content by JFR

Hello,Does the $1650 include shipping cost? Would you be willing to come down if all 6 were purchased as a package?

I work at a theatre that does a variety of practical installations depending on the show. For example our current show has 8 standard A lamps on various pieces of scenery, but in November we mounted The Producers which had a whopping 1,200 lamps and 500 feet of rope light installed in the set...

For my 14/3 I'm not a huge fan of the over under, but that is just my personal preference. I was always taught to coil socapex in a figure 8. I don't know why, but maybe someone else can back up that logic.

Depending on what console you are purchasing, it may have auto tracking for mover positions. If you're building a cue list and running a cue list it might keep a mover in its last used position until it needs to preset for the next cue where the intensity comes on.Sometimes I run special...

I usually stock between 10-20% of my inventory in spare lamps. So if I have 100 S4s I'll have between 10-20 spares. I also restock by the dozen.

ETA Professional Dimmer Pack Model 1662I am looking for a manual for the ETA Professional Dimmer Pack Model 1662.I have 3 of these packs in my black box, no paperwork on them, and dimmer 3 in one of the packs isn't working. Does anyone have experience repairing these dimmers?I appreciate...

This actually sounds like a neat effect if desired. I'm thinking "smokey bar" with a practical ceiling fan at a low speed and a "neon" accent could look really amazing.

My company has a Radiance Hazer we were planning on using in a show that opens tonight. The show runs for 4 months and in anticipation of needing fluid in 3 weeks I went ahead and purchased Froggy's Neutronic Haze fluid. It is half the price of the Ultratec Luminous 7 Haze. Unfortunately the...

A very strange thing has happened, and I want to share the experience in case anyone else runs into a similar problem.During show start up we ran a lamp on sequence for 2 Elation Design Spot Pro250s. The auto follow cue puts both at 50/50 with shutter(strobe control channel) open and dimmer...

It's roughly an 10'-12' throw from hang to stage. I think anything smaller than a 26 would be too small, but depending on blocking and desired isolation, having the 50 degree option seems really appealing.

Derek, I'm putting together a lighting package proposal for a small 80 seat black box that functions as host to a multitude of events, such as auditions, people eating cake, and elaborate productions with 2 story sets. I have been looking at the S4 Zooms 25/50 because of the versatility. I would...

For anyone who in interested I spoke with a rep at High End and we walked me through some tests. Here is what I did to trouble shoot.First I swapped lamps. That wasn't it. Then I swapped lamp bases. That wasn't it. Then I swapped PCBs. That was it.He told me that after swapping the PCBs if...

Hello ControlBooth! I'm fairly new to this company and I'm making my first go at fixing a Trackspot that supposedly hasn't worked since....err....2007?Here is what I know: I have been told the unit doesn't lamp on. This is correct, as I have run a self test cycle and all other attributes...

Are you looking at the MBTs due to budget constraints?I have used Elation Opti Tri Pars (RGB) to a somewhat successful extent. They had a really high output at about a 15' throw and their price point was right for us at around $500 a piece. They were great for our punchy saturate musical...

My mistake. The NSI 7516 has a setup menu where you change the data protocol. It has been quite a while since I have programmed these consoles. And now I'm wondering...maybe you can run both multiplex and dmx.I'm really curious to find out, because I know on the 7516 you can not use both.