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For really dark colors like this, it is best to order a dichroic glass. Many people do not even know that you can order it from the same place you get your gel. You can get a small round glass and a holder that fits in your gobo slot or iris slot. that way you don't have to worry about dark...

Hey Les1,I see that some people responded in a very generic way that doesn't really help, then the topic strayed. Next time, also post what the LED instrument is so we can help you better. Some older LED parcans have a master dimmer channel that is broken up into sections. 0 to 30% is dimming...

I was just playing around and found out something pretty cool. It is very common to see stage managers go around with a mini flashlight and place it right on top of a glow tape spike to charge it quickly before the curtain goes up. I got a pen light at an automotive parts place than has a UV led...

Pin spots are dying out. They were used alot because it was the technology at the time. It is a major pain because of the idea of a light rigged over each and every table, and hooking up power spread out like that over the ceiling is a royal pain in the butt too. With new battery operated LED...

Chauvet claims that the 60 watt LED is as bright as a MSD-250 discharge lamp. I've have my Q-spot 260's on shows where the gear house supplying the sound was impressed with the output and said it was close to what their MAC 250's looked like. This is from an ABBA tribute concert I did last...

I own 8 of the Chauvet Q-spot 260 LED's and love them. Nice and bright, tons of gobos, focus, prizim, lots of bells for a good price tag. I don't think you'll be disapointed. Ken Pogin Production / Tour Manager Minnesota Ballet

It won't work. you should just give that Ion to me. What time shall I stop by to pick up that piece of junk taking up all that precious closet space? I suppose I could suffer the drive just to help out a fellow Minnesotan Ken Pogin Production / Tour Manager Minnesota Ballet

So...... I am guessing that the large duct taped sandbags hanging over an open door should be replaced with a 5 gallon bucket from Home depot, rope tied to the handle? right? then filled with loose nuts and bolts for the counterweight?

It is called the green room because that is the room the actors wait in after the show to get thier pay. Of course that was way back in the day before W2's and 1099 forms. Ken Pogin Production / Tour Manager Minnesota Ballet

so, I'm confused....is it the unistrut or the bucket that I should not be using? (wink)

I use both. My dancers do like the vinyl tape more as they claim it has same feel as the floor. But in our studio I now use a grey gaff because after years there has been dirt combined with the glue residue and clear tape just shows years of that crud, a clean grey tape looks cleaner. I could...

Are we talking about a permanent or temp floor? There are products to make a dance floor seamless called floor welding. It's basically melting plastic to fill the cracks and joins rolls together. it also depends on the dance floor for tape that doesn't show. Clear vinyl dance tape doesn't show...

While thinking in lumens is admirable, I would think that the first place to start is power. What is your source of power for this tent? if you are running off a generator(s) then think about your limits to how many Source Four pars you can place around. Don't forget that they get hot so how are...

You have to open up the box to expose the circuit board inside. There are jumpers that configure what the output will be. My IF105 is not with me right now, but if I remember correctly there are 2 sets of jumper pins. Just in case you're going :"what the heck is a jumper?" A jumper is a...

There were supposed to be hand lines on the batten for other deck hands to help with the weight. Something I've done before and hate doing it every time. To me it is a bad design flaw in the set when you have to do things like that to get it in the air. I have some large sets that fly and really...