Recent content by Nimick

When I went pricing my Element, our local dealer had the best price.It's probably ETC's way of doing business. Smart too, if you think about it.

I will, I just figured I'd ask here since it isn't urgent and it might be some known issue that I hadn't got the memo about. The patch is 1 to 1 and has not changed. the rest of the show worked fine after the block.I do have a couple dimmers preheated, but I don't see how that could have...

I posted this on the ETC Element forum, but since that forum doesn't get a whole lot of traffic I thought I'd ask here too.We opened last night, and I discovered that some of the actors had not been wearing their proper make-up, so I had to alter some levels at home after the show. I did...

Thanks to those who answered my question.I did a little test running the offline client on a number of different computers in my house, including my girlfriends widescreen Imac.it worked great on the imac, but no matter what screen it ran on, it did not appreciate not having a full 1024...

So I finally got my element. It's sitting at the dealer.What kind of monitors do I want? if I were to just go to Best Buy, all they have in store are widscreens.Of course I can order a normal 19" from Tigerdirect, but due to time constraints it would be much better to go to a store after...

This makes no sense.either we install something, and it fails, and the organization gets screwed OR we do nothing, and someone falls, and the organization gets screwed.actually it's the parks department that's going to get screwed, they're their trees. any fall arrest equipment would only...

These are the front lighting positions for an outdoor venue I've lit for the past few years.I'm looking for a way to provide some minimal fall arrest precautions for whoever has to climb these things. It's a volunteer outfit and I'm getting sick of risking my neck for free. I'm certainly not...

Re: The future of lamps, (and fixtures, and therefore, Everything), and also an upgra and with this quote I have secured an Element. Thank You Sir.

Re: The future of lamps, (and fixtures, and therefore, Everything), and also an upgra not if it still works, it won't. A Microvision (if it still works) will do everything a medium sized conventional only venue would need.

Re: The future of lamps, (and fixtures, and therefore, Everything), and also an upgraThey are running an overgrown NSI system, and control is currently a 24ch NSI Programmable 2 scene Preset. But they already have more than 24 channels worth of dimming capacity. Dimmer upgrades are in the...

I'm curious to know what the consensus view is regarding the future of lamp technology in the long term. Principally in regards to how efforts to use more energy efficient technology might effect the methods we, as theater lighting designers/stage electricians, use to produce the light we design...

I've been playing with it for a couple of hours now, and it does make more sense. many of the functions do seem redundent, but useful in their own way.I do have some familiarity with the ION, I'm just not completely fluent with it. I do see many similarities.those tutorials helped a lot...

I'm beginning to think who ever did the buying for this place should be shot.but hey, it's a relatively poor urban school, so I suppose I shouldn't be complaining. the kids certainly would not be.thanks all

thanks, I knew it had to be a dumb question.

Same house as my previous thread. lots of new equipment. no documentation.in addition to the shiny new board that nobody knows how to use there are some S4/Shakespeare lookin' fixtures that say strand on them but bear no resemblance to anything on the strand/selecon website.the most...