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    Control/Dimming Dumb Cabling Mistakes

    Heh, that reminds me of a recent show I did before I left my last company. We were doing an outdoor power distro, downtown San Diego the night before the event. We finished up, and my boss was kind enough to the crew out for dinner (it was just a few of us). We come back.. and my boss points to...
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    Control/Dimming Dumb Cabling Mistakes

    Oh, I've made plenty, some serious, some trivial. The one that I remember most for just being just plain stupid was at a small beach show. The FOH position is about 100 feet away from the stage. The sound guys had dug a trench in the sand already, I just threw in my line and they buried it all...
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    Spot Light too bright...

    I was about to suggest the "downgrade" option as well. The 1275s are very popular spots and you should be able to get a good price on them even if you did have to simply sell them off.
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    What Source Four To Use?

    You don't have to convert. The numbers are based on a ratio, so whether you put feet, meters, inches, rods, furlongs, or what ever in, you get the same unit out of the chart. Thats why there are no units listed.
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    How does AC have a hot and a neutral?

    I hope this doesn't confuse you more but it might help visualize, so I'll try to explain it as minimally as possible. Voltage is relative. To a wire that is positive, ground looks negative. To a wire that is negative, the ground looks positive. So as long as there is a path back to the...
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    Power Tap Horror Stories

    The worst one I was partially involved with happened while a dimmer rack of ours was on a sub rental. The client before had apparently had trouble either getting on or taking off the cam from the output side of the feed through. So CUT OFF THE FIRST INCH OF INSULATOR around the female cam...
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    Remote Control

    Sounds like an interesting project. How much control are you talking about here? Moving lights? Or just an LED wash on the cyc and some conventional? Maxxyz and LightJocky have a web server option, so you create a web page interface to control a range of cues and looks. Lightjocky's is a bit...
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    Dark Routines for Movers

    I considered this before, but after some thought I changed my mind. The shutter is the second thing after the heat shield the light and heat hits in the beam path.The reflector, heat shield, shutter, and housing would run a bit cooler with the shutter open. The flip side of that though, is that...
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    Pictures and reviews of LED fixtures

    Maybe I just have bad luck ;)
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    Pictures and reviews of LED fixtures

    Just a word of caution on this. Very often times many venues will have several outlets that share one breaker, some you might not even see out in the lobby or ajoining room. Hotel/catering staff will just plug in their coffee pots or what not into the first available outlet and often times, this...
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    Suggestions On Follow Spot To Purchase?

    It looks like Lycian has a new spot or two on the horizon. We're betting in our shop that it's going to replace the Super Arc line, but we've not really done much digging into it, so it's just speculation on my part at this point. Still, it might be worth giving someone at Lycian a call at...
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    Impression vs. Legend

    The uneven fields that I was talking about on the other thread dosn't seem to be a problem with all lights, just ones that don't match their LEDs well. Personally,I'm quite fond of the idea of the 4 and 5 color systems. The Martin Stagebar has 5 different colors and mixes quite well and has...
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    Suggestions On Follow Spot To Purchase?

    All and all Lycien seems to be the best for your dollar in my experience. I don't do a lot of follow spot operation, but I can tell you my experience of them from our rental house. Good optics, well built and reliable.The M2 Line looks fantastic, but I've only been able to demo them. The time...
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    grandMA2

    No mention anywhere of an onPC version. I've been toying with the idea of getting myself a PC console of my own some sort if I were to go freelance, but now it seems I have another variable to deal with. I suppose I'm in no rush at this point, but still, I hope to be able to see just what the...
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    Color blending on low end LEDs?

    Is it the scalloping from the multiple LEDs that is the problem? Or is it the halo like on the ADJ fixture I saw? For me, at least, less then 10 feet is the biggest use of LEDs for lighting walls, props, scenery, etc. I would never do a wash on a stage with any RGB LED fixture except for effects...
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