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    Where can I buy a transformer?

    I saw Transformers and All I could think of was, "More than meets the eye."
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    Energy, The amount of electricity your fixtures use.

    I even was looking into how long fixtures Last and Gel Cost.All I want is more budget to start getting more effeciant LED Fixtures.
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    Person appears from a just emptied cardboard box . . . Hmmm!

    The false back is a great start hinge at the bottom. books and stuff hold the back up. tipper holds it and when the box is righted to show it is empty. when upright and empty the back tilts foreward to fill the bottom of the box. have a front top flap to help mask a little more of the false...
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    Light Board is Dead Two Days Before Open (Any Ideas?)

    Does that run DMX 512 protocol?
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    Conventional Fixtures Strand SL Coolbeams

    Very Clever! It won't look the same as your ETC Model. Another thing is using them to drive nails.
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    Conventional Fixtures Strand SL Coolbeams

    What's UL Listing?.........Just Kidding. No Seriously, What is it?
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    Energy, The amount of electricity your fixtures use.

    That's why I posted on here, to get help.Bush, got away with fuzzy Math! Thanks, JChenault
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    Conventional Fixtures Strand SL Coolbeams

    OH, I have cracked reflectors!
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    Energy, The amount of electricity your fixtures use.

    I have been working an a spread sheet on the amount of energy my Lighting fixtures use.ETC Source Four 575W/120V Lamp life 300hrs/2000hrs Cost of electricity: $.11 KWhr Cost of electricity over the life of Lamp: $189.75 Lamp cost:$18.00 Number of Lamps at 50,000 hrs: 166.667/25.00 Lamp cost at...
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    Control/Dimming Anyone else have this problem

    Colortran dimmers? Check airflow, dirty dimmers, or finally it's the Colortran dimmers. I'm also wondering if you have an archetechual control attached to your Dimmers. I have had a bad station that would make magical things happen with the lights.
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    Conventional Fixtures Strand SL Coolbeams

    By the time I get to them they have cooled down. I've tried torching them to heat them up with no luck. I'm sitting on a graveyard of 18 SL fixtures.
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    Conventional Fixtures Strand SL Coolbeams

    Has anybody ever had to replace the lamp sockets on these fixtures? I cannot get the backs apart. Strand used steel screws into the Aluminium housing and basicly the screws have rusted, I'm thinking from the heat, and I can't get them out. I can deal with the hundreds of lock washers, but I keep...
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    What Would You Do?- Rigging a Shoe to drop

    I know this already happened.here is what I use. Tie a line to I-bolt and run it through a bock (pulley) onthe end of the batten down. just pull to release. if you use heavy rope the weight of rope might pull the pin.
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    Control/Dimming Anyone else have this problem

    I would first look for extra fixtures or devices on the same DMX universe, or make sure you have the system terminated.does it happen when you are touching the board? I had problems with the faders being dirty, even though I kept board covered when not in use.
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    LED House Lamps

    I have been testing a Sylvania (E327386)LED Lamp/bulb for about a year now. they dim out as well as the other lights. Our lighting system uses Colortran iSeries Dimmers. only problem is that the light dosen't shine twards the base of lamp so I get a dark spot in middle on the sconce. these...
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