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Its not uncommon for a dead/dying PSU to take out the motherboard in a computer. If the motherboard is gone, you can try all you want but it won't power up.

DC can burn and kill you you like AC, but what I've heard that makes AC inherently more dangerous is the alternating +/-/+/-/+/- of AC can cause heart arrhythmia problems.

Mercury Vapor/Metal Halide (most likely metal halide if its a newer setup, since the selling of new mercury vapor ballasts has been banned) may only take 3-4 minutes to reach full brightness, but the issue is that they will not re-strike when hot. They can sometimes take up to 10 minutes to cool...

Old worn out florescent tubes on older ballasts will sometimes do that effect as well. The problem is though that you can't make a worn out fluorescent tube behave normally. Like if you wanted it to start out normal and bright and then start flickering.

Our Facilities Director fired off an E-Mail to someone within Leviton, who then E-Mailed us the software. Tell them you need the software to program the architectural control module.Patching is easy enough, its the fact that who ever installed the system at this school never bothered to...

This particular copy of Windows 7 has been running for 22 days straight so far. I use it for everything from e-mail and web browsing to gaming and instant messaging. Our main "family" computer runs Ubuntu Linux, and its been up for 28 days so far. Both Windows 7 and the Ubuntu PC are running...

Odd. I suppose we could phone up Colortran and ask them why it was ordered and what was supposed to be done with it. But don't really see myself doing that, since we can pretty much do anything we want with it now.

How did they manage to rip a hole in the grand drape? They seem to be made out of some fairly hearty material. I would think it would take some real effort to rip one?

The doors only lock from the outside of the auditorium, so they can still be opened from inside if need be.@Blah, well that is exactly what happened with our "Lip Syncing" competition.Luckily our next talent show coming up is actually a "guy" beauty pageant, and they have to show off...

Thanks for the clarification on what its supposed to be called. We figured it was supposed to go with the other striplights, but there seems to be no place to put it on the 2nd electric, and as is the 4 strips are able to light up the entire width of the stage. Weird.I do know the Auditorium...

Hey guys, we were checking out some storage areas around school the other day, and we found what I believe is a color wash fixture? Probably wrong on the name. Basically its a long strip that takes 16 bulbs, and it has 4 circuits in it - for four colors. The stage already has four of these...

Forgot to mention how they did/do admissions. I thought they handled the admissions side of things pretty good at my school though. All of the other entrances (side, etc.) are locked, so you can only get in through the main doors, and they have a table set up manned by a few people collecting...

We working on trying to get a memory card for our system. Apparently we never got one which is partially why it took so long getting the system back up and running. We had to hook a PC upto the control and reprogram every single thing in manually.

If anyone is interested we finally got everything working. Problem was a combination of a fried diode in a back stage viewpoint "box", and the architectural control module had somehow been damaged and lost its programming. Probably because its not mounted properly and just sits there on the...

The biggest thing IMO is to make sure individual acts lighting wants/needs and their corresponding music/audio is organized and planned out well before the actual show date.We just had a "Lip Synching" competition at my school on monday, and while I'm not an official member of students...