Recent content by tech_man

one thing to be aware of is if the building has (i think its called) a life safety plan, this is a document created by the architect and the fire marshal and others important contributors which list what each room is used for and what is aloud to be in that room. this may not mater in your...

While working at a performing arts center that had road shows on the weekends and elementary band shows and choir concerts during the week, we wired the sound system in to the intercoms so we could play music in the com's to block out the noise. It was a cool system till one day we hade music...

Just a note I use my laptop for running sound all the time and if I have it plugged in to the AC power in my building I get a horrid buzz from the charger (on both normal AC and the sound booths isolated power). The way I fixed it is swapping around the plug so the ground is not connected. Now...

ok i have a problem with a black box full of colortran leo's that a burning their gels in a mater of minuets. they all have 750 watt lamps in them and are tuned correctly. this is the max that the instrements can have and this is also waht came with the building.It was late when i posted this...

I was just looking at the strand lighting web site and they have a new system out that has an offline editor that’s capable of working with 300 & 500 series consoles. They said to downlod it from there site I searched for it and can’t find it. I emailed strand and haven’t gotten a response. I...

hello my school resuntly got a strand 300 console and i was trying to get the offline editor to work and it cepes geting erormesages saing tnt.dll is mising dose aney one know how to fix this

a qestiong on to all those of you that have strand lighting systems. is thare aney thigh i shood have a couple of spares of in my tool box. or little problems that you would not expect to have on a sami regular basis like a 5$ part that controls the hole system and has to be specilorderd and...

Clasics from the BHS production of susical the musical - you all remember what circit Breakers the rental dimer packs are on right - every one got ther fire extingiser ready - if the actors kick the ground row over again im going to nead some bodey bags - aney one...

Genie lifts can be a great help but can also be deadly this last fall i was using a Genie in my schools gym and reached out and grabed the meatal blechers (youd think sumthing tha suports 750 pepole would be wiered properly) whel me and the Genie created a ground and i got to dance on 220...