Recent content by RedGreenBlue132

I'm in Virginia Beach, Va. But I bought them on ebay from what looked like a storage auction guy in Dallas. I would definitely be interested in a board if you have one I can buy.

I checked the harness and even hooked the board up to another light and still got nothing, so the board is definitely fried. I'll probably send the board back to VL, but I've sent boards to them before and they couldn't help me, so I was hoping I could just replace the fried components. The...

So I was replacing a Varilite VL-1000TI control boards (one of their early prototype red boards) with a newer green boards, long story short, the main +24v power going into the PCB was not plugged in all the way and after being on for a few seconds popped and blue sparks came out of the ground...

That's a really good point...I'll need to bring that up with the band management.

They did, but they're being very uptight, they wont even let us use our sound engineer. This is a casino by the way, but I don't makes any difference.

So after talking with one of the house guys, it turns out they do have a full wing. However, he then said quote "my guys are running the show" and will only take "suggestions" from me like I don't know what I doing...I don't see the issue with having their programmer set up the wing and me run...

most of that would work IF they have an external fader wing, what happens if they don't?

So I have kind of an emergency situation, This coming Friday I'll be running a show at a venue that used a Road Hog for their house console, which is an entirely different beast than the Smartfade 48/96 I use now, and for reasons out of my control, I am unable to have a cue list. I basically...

Every time I boot up the console, I get a "Wrong Personality" message, I press the exit button and it goes away, but the console is still acting very weird. when I bring up the GM and preset master faders channel 1 or 48 will flicker on and off, however all the presets have supposedly been...

Those aren't actually welds, but like really short nails or pins that are compressed on the other side, almost like pop rivits. no belts, all gear driven uses a Telechron B-2 motor running at 1 rpm which drives a vertical shaft, that rotates the gel wheel. Hopefully these pictures will help...

Right, and for a DJ PC based software can be a perfect solution. It really all comes down to the personal preference of the LD. The part about the no set list and feeling out the crowd fits my situation 100%, even though I'm with the same band 4-6 days a week. I guess coming from the theatre...

That's what I figured, but in the 30's Telechron went to a copper and aluminum motor housings, the one on this is still made of brass. If they were going to make a new light they probably wouldn't have used an older motor. The style and machining also isn't consistent with late 30's 40's lights...

I think I could get a saltwater dimmer to hook it up to, going to party like it's 1929.

So I bought this light, just restored it to working condition. I know it's function but I really don't know the history, the name of it or any real details.What I do know:Manufactured by Best DevicesUses a GE Telechron clock motor to rotate the gel scroller Patent dates on the motor puts...

Yeah, the smartfade does have pc based software that it can connect to for patching and so on, but that's different because I still have a physical console for controlling my lights. I'm not saying that all software is bad I'm saying that not having hands on instant control of your fixtures...