Recent content by Nick Caburis

Well this thread got necro’d but I have some insight three years after my original post.Since this post I graduated HS, did some designing in college, and am now transferring to get a degree in lighting design.What ended up happening in college was I eventually bit down and learned Vectorworks...

Hey I don't know if it was a type or not but I can't open the link correctly nor can I find it on google. Thanks, -Nick C

I'm the techie(designer?) at my high school. My predecessor used to plot our lights on one or a few diagrams like attached below. For our spring musicals, we'd have four, one for conventional areas and wash, one for our LED fixtures and any movers, and one for our DMX wiring paths. I'm looking...

At my school, what we did was one of our guys chose to cough up $30 bucks for a decent belkin router. Programmed a static ip for the board, made the ESSID hidden(because the tech department didn't want complaints or confusion) and set a password. Each tech was responsible for their own app if...

Ok so upon further research and some minor consulting with my buddy few things have been learned. The dimmer we have is not programmable. So when it loses signal from the source(the control board) it sets the power to 0. Which sadly means it's still gets a tiny amount of power because of the...

Hey everyone! Just sayin hi. I figured it might be good for my health if I make an account on this forum considering I need to take up the mantle of my predecessor. I've already posted a few questions but not gonna lie, I'm worried about not being able to do everything as effieciently as the...

I need ideas for making tech week run smoother. Background info: HS productions. Light board, ETC Element 250. We start renting the Friday before the show because we don't have the resources/money to own the lights we want. I have a background in professional concerts but not shows. How we do...

In our auditorium, we use LED parcans (pretty much DJ grade stuff) which needs constant power. What we choose to do with our ETC Element is park channel 250 at full and patch the dimmer we plug the LEDs into onto the channel. We usually keep the board running constantly with blackout on and the...