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Hi, I looking to find a better replacement for the dimmers at a church that whose lighting system I am renovating. Right now the system is nothing fancy, it's 4 chavuet shoebox dimmers in the basement. Which have started to fail only after a couple of years. There are 16 channels, each with a...

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I need some advice and some tips and tricks about programming movers on an Ion. Just as a little back ground, I have programmed movers on an Ion before, but at most there were 4 movers in the show. And this time I'll be programming 20+ mac 700 and mac 1200, on a slaved Ion. My biggest concern...

If they are Li-Ion, keep them it the chargers. There is a chip in the battery that monitors the batteries charge; and prevents you from charging it if the battery becomes to depleted, for safety reasons. Ironically, the same chip will drain all the power and prevent it from charging if left...

Are you looking for individual or computer control? Because, it should be fairly simple to wire up a switch panel for the Chauvet relay pack.

The red stain on the sidewalk isn't battery acid, sulfuric acid is clear. Also you would notice a significant reduction in battery capacity if your battery was leaking a significant amount. It's likely grease or oil. I cant see why charging a battery in a room would be a problem, you would...

Refractive Index describes how light behaves as it passes through a medium, is the phase velocity or speed of light that is passing through a material compared the speed of light in a vacuum.

Is a term in photography, which refers to contrast of an edge in an image. (Not to be confused with the word Accurate)

It looks like a plano convex spotlight to me. Is there a sliding knob on it somewhere, like a fresnel? Or is the lens in the front actually the lamp?

Besides the fact you would have to pay a good amount of cash to train and certify every person who uses a ham radio, there are at least four reasons off the top of my head that make these radios illegal. And one feature that make them very easy to track by the FCC. Save your self some time and...

You could use a Mega-Coupler or half cheeseborough, and replace the wing nut with some sort of rated security nut.

While in the spot light workspace, open the spotlight drop down menu, select find and modify.

Screw a small screw in to the inside of the pin, then pull it out.

I hear that you might be able to still buy high wattage par 38's at pool supply stores. As they are exempt from the ban, because they are used for special purposes.

The TD at my collage did that once, it worked very well. Until, the foam gummed up every part of the chain saw, including the sprocket for the chain. Mind you, we didn't put a filter over the air intakes, but I get the feeling the saw would have broke with the filters. I will say that if you...