Recent content by Thranduil

The powerbricks fail, however, they are not that difficult to replace. I also refuse to believe that they have a failure rate of one in every 54 million. Out of 600 dimmers, in the last three years we have had 10 power brick failures.

At the venue where I work we have a typical school fire system installed - it has a trouble mode and a alarm mode, and we have smoke heads all over. We also have a lazer in the house that makes a huge grid that if it cant talk to the other end of the grid, the alarm goes into trouble, and if...

Sony MRDZ-700 Series. Wonderful headphones, increadbly accurate, only 100$, durable, world renound among the radio world... i use em for all my mixing, gaming, and music, and i have yet to hear something that works better.

A couple of comments. 1) we have a similar situation in our little theater where all three of our FOH pipes are bolted to the cealing, 25-30 feet up. However, we have a aframe, so its not a problem. 2) On the liability factor. In the state of califroina OSHA says its illegal to be more...

At berkeley high we had some problems with the cd 80 packs we have that are actually from the 80s, and just turned out to be dirty contacts on the pack brains, and dust all over. So, Id try that first. Un-fortunatly, we cant really loan you anything from our system, even thou its close, as...

Something else to check is the colour tempertature of the lamps in your lights. We in a rush before a show ordered some lamps from someone other than our normal distrubutor, and they ended up being a slightly different color temperature than our normal ones.(these are hpls for source fours)...

Im not positive on this... but I think that a 10 year old rigging system shouldnt be a problem, unless the ropes are hemp and havent been replaced. Our fly systems are orgional with the building(1948) in both theaters, but are still fine. The hemp, up until recently(before the district cut...

Im a meyer guy my self. We have 2 MTS-4s in our 600 seat theater, and they sound amazing, clear, and are also amainzly accurate. Plus they have breakers and limiters, so are very forgiving, which is good because in educational theater, you always have new people who occasionlly froget things.

we generally have a no gloves near rail policy because idiots tend to get things caught, and i dont like to set examples for this, also even with gloves 400 lbs hitting the tip of your finger at speed is gonna hurt.

I had a nice classic run away yesterday. We had some strip lights(4) on a pipe that i needed for a part of the musical. The lights had been used as works before, so it wasnt a huge problem to get rid of them. So i flew them in, took em off with two other people. Now at this point im going...

We use beta 91s, and they are great, except the small connector on their heads likes to break.

Steve, the packs arent DMX and as such dont have DMX lables ;) We have no clue what fried the express, it wasnt actually the express, jsut its psu that got fried. They were doing work on the power to the building, and i assume some spike in the whole buliding power fried the psu. The Packs im...

Oh another note. I know its not the dimmers because ive plugged an AMX board into them and havent had the problem. which means converter box or express. are their settings on an express aside from dmx outspeed that might affect it?

Sketchy, i guess i prhased that wrong, i know what subs are, i was just wondering what in particular was wrong, like if they just wouldnt program, of if they wouldnt come up after you programmed them. Jbeutt, yea their are four packs(each with 12 dimmers) I believe the adressing is right...

Clean, pack brains? whoops well im gonna guess the 70s, when they were now, how do you clean it? just contact cleaner or compessed air? and Sketchy, their is nothing on the board, we just got it back from the shop because the PSU was fried. Out of curosity what do you mean the subs dont work?