Recent content by Roger L. Lattin

Check the supply cable's capabilities what gauge is it? Plug a meter in with the phazer also watch for voltage drop both when you plug it in/on and when the rest of the system is on. If your loading down the circuit it will cause excessive current draw which will heat up your cable. Let us know...

I work primarily in film and TV when a drop of liquid (sweat, water or something else) hits the lens or lamp globe it goes BOOM. For a long time when new designs were out in the field (4kW, 1kW2 HMI pars, 18kW HMI, 20kW & 24kW tungsten Fresnels) some times with just powering them down the cold...

You get what you pay for there are network cable testers that are just ,"fox'n' hounds" that send tone down the line like a continuity tester. the more expensive network testers and DMX testers { DFD-Gismo, Goddard- DMX'ters, Artistic Lic. Micro scope, Swisson- 120, 130?} send a signal down the...

Angling the drum shield is one way, another is to put polarizing filters on both the drum shield and the lights at 90 degrees to each other this will kill the reflections. dulling spray and a polarizer on the light sometimes works also.

OOOPS- I guess I am getting old I just checked with my go to lamp supplier "they don't make den any more". The WB and Paramount lamp rooms still have some limited stock, if you want I'll see if they'll rent them to an outsider. Sorry I thought that they were still made

Call Mole (213) 851-0111, now they are in the process of moving to a new facility they should have the parts and the manual BUT, they are moving so some of the older stuff may get thrown away.

There are retro-fit globes for industrial hi-bay lights to take them to CFL or LED, if you want some slightly used mogul to medium screw base adapters taking up room in my garage/shop if that helps.

In the Film and TV we still use daylight "Blue" globes for our PAR fixtures. The globes are standard rental items through our rental houses, although they are more expensive than the standard tungsten globes, they come in 500 Watt, 1000 Watt and 1,200 Watt "Fire Starters" VNSPs. They are...

I will be there from Tuesday thru Monday, our local has a booth, again!!! Will be doing all of the PLASA meetings, teaching a class on Thursday afternoon, OH yeah I think theres a trade show going on too

In Film & TV we use white gaff with black or red sharpy (Used to be red AC, black DC) around the connectors and white Gaff length wise to hold the Bates 20,60,100 amps together. When the white gaff around the connector discolored you knew you had a bad one. We have started to use paint pens...

Do ETCP electricians smell differently when they burn up????

Un-coiling machine wrapped cable can be a PITA, pull the end from the center of the bundle works many times. If you can't the only way is to stretch it out as far as you can

You can get Kino Flo CFLs in both 3200K and 5500K a little pricy but very good quality lamps. Maybe the NEC should put the actors in cages, it would solve many other safety issues!!!

I think that they are nail plates for backing up flats as you build them so that they don't get attached to the work table.

If they are standard tubes get color correct tubes T-5 or T-8s from kino-flo either tungsten or 2900s balanced. If you need to dim them there are several dimmer curves in the ETC Sensor system that don't work too badly. They work best with proper "shop lights", the cheep home center units with...