Recent content by Scenemaster60

A colleague of mine who has recently become the TD for a local college reached out to me yesterday with a lamp question for their followspots. It turns out that hey have 2 Phoebus Ultra-arcs (original) that use the GE Marc-350 lamp. I have never used or encountered this particular followspot and...

Nope. They won't physically fit inside the architectural recessed fixture nor, for that matter, would that solution maintain the UL rating of the recessed luminaire if they did fit.

They show this in a cheap PAR can. For that application, this makes little sense to me. The far more sensible use for this type of retrofit is in architectural fixtures that use PAR lamps. The church where I work has 20 recessed spots that use 500 watt PAR56 NSP lamps. I have a legacy supply of...

Bill you are correct about them being essentially the same thing. It would appear that the shift of names in the industry largely happened after WWII. From my observations, it seems that systems called "magnetic amplifiers" from the 1950s had more solid state components in the control circuitry...

Here are some recent scans of the 1988 Colortran line of consoles - The Prestige 3000, 2000, & 1000, the Scenemaster 60, and the Patchman.These consoles have a lot of nostalgic value for me as the Scenemaster 60 was the first non-preset control desk I ever used in 1989.It's interesting to...

I guess to some extent it could depend on how many moving lights are in your rig and how quickly you need to get them programmed for busking a show.The EOS TI with its additional two encoder wheels and fancy touch screen for multi-parameter instruments makes programming of movers a bit easier...

Was just doing some reading/research this subject here: https://support.etcconnect.com/ETC/Consoles/Eos_Family/Ion/Ion_Windows_7_Upgrade_Eligibility and have noticed that nowhere in my research can I find the approximate cost of these upgrade/rebuilds.Given that basic new Element II setup is...

Definitely 2 line cords. I'm looking at 2 x 20 amp input and then six 750 watt loads going out.

Heya all,I need to replace 2 ETA dimmer packs that have died in the last 6 months or so. These are packs from the mid 1990s with both DMX and their protocal for control. The packs themselves have SSRI control and adequate chokes.I am looking at replacing these with 6 channel packs from...

They do have a barn door available. It took me a while to find an online retailer that has them listed. The only place I could find them at a decent price was B&H Photo for $30. I was not super impressed with the quality of the barn doors, but it's the only thing out there...

I can only speak from my experience, which is somewhat limited, but here goes.The Colorsource PAR is a great instrument, but I suspect that it is only going to be slightly brighter that the CorePars since the CS Par is around 100 watts of LED emitters. Price for these seems to be in the...

Again, depending on your budget, I've had good results using the Magenta Multiview technology for transmitting video over cat 5e cabling. While this technology still works perfectly well, I think it is more or less sunsetting as a "go-to" for video transmission with the nearly universal adoption...

I would agree with Les as well. My experience and research tells me that there were a handful of tweaks and revisions to the 902/Dynaspot over the years. By the late 1980s, there were actually 3 different models of this spotlight.At that point the 902 had a beam spread of 1.9° to 33°, used two...

In the last day or two an advertisement showed up in my FB feed that intrigued me. It is for a new difussion product from Rosco called "Opti-Sculpt". It is offered in 11 very precise beam-shaping spreads. Not exactly cheap at $50 for a 20"x24" sheet, but much more affordable than the Luminit...

RC4 is VERY responsive to support inquiries. Thanks, Jim, for helping me out so quickly!