Recent content by woolycd

You could use some Polyethylene tubing such as this stuff from HD. Not sure how wide your strip is, but this is 10 mm ID. You should be able to find a size you can use...

I have no experience with the Stage Setter but I do use the Scene Setter controller. Those buttons are for recording and playing chases. Chases can be a single step, such as lights a, c, and d at 50%. It looks like (based on the description in the manual) the chase buttons are toggle on/off...

The speed of sound in air (c) at room temperature is about 1130 fps. For a simple calculation use c = 1000 fps or 1 ms = 1 ft; therefore, 15 ms = 15 ft. For more accuracy, add 13% to 15% depending on temperature (and humidity). The added accuracy only makes a real difference for longer delay...

We just did Les Mis and we built or barricade on 3 rolling 4x8 platforms. Then added steps and boxes from previous shows.We then added some old furniture and other "stuff". Some pieces overhang over the adjacent platform. We stored one piece stage left and two pieces stage right. They...

Like all good sea stories, this starts out ... "This is no s....."It was a hot summer evening, late July, 1973 in north central Iowa. That was the year the drinking age in Iowa changed from 19 to 18. I was still 18 and sitting around with two of my buddies and two cases of cold PBR when...

It's time to revive this thread for all us that have joined since 2012. I'm one for the Ol' Farts, pre 1961.Looks like this thread has been inactive for so long that I forgot that I had already added my status. Newer members should still add their status.

We've been using an Elation Scene Setter for special programs at our church for 9 years. It works great with a low channel count (24, or 48 with the larger board). I've never run cues on this board but there are some tricks I use by setting up my general looks as scenes. I've now started...

I should have 96+ channels available. I'll find out once I patch them in. I've got profiles for both 5 channel and 9 channel built and can transfer them to a floppy at the local library (where my wife works). I'm thinking I could operate in 9 channel mode and build a 6 channel personality to...

Thanks for the great input. I finally found a personality editor that works on my computer. The links in the Programming Moving Lights wiki article no longer work but I finally found the program. Now all I need to do is find a computer with a 3.5 inch floppy drive and a clean 3.5 inch disk and...

I’m working with our local high school on their Fall production. We want to incorporate some LED fixtures into the light plot and we’re trying to figure out how to best program them on an Express 48/96. We plan to use 12 fixtures in 5 channel mode, RGBWA. Don't know yet if we'll set them up...

Looks like I made another rooky mistake. The equation should be:Beam Spread = 2 x Throw Distance x tan(φ/2)You'll see the results look more like the ETC Beam Spread Table now. I don't get much chance to do any trig in my current job.

"φ" [phi] is a random Greek character I use to designate the an angle. In this case, the beam angle. I should know better than to not define all variables in an equation.

The beam spread table uses a constant for any given beam angle [Beam Spread = 2 x Throw Distance x cos(φ/2)]. The dimension units show up on both sides of the equation so they divide (cancel) out. You use the same table for feet; just replace all references to meters with feet and it works...

Try pressing the "Park" button (#20 on page 3 of the manual) until the "Mix Chase" LED is lit. I use the same board for our church theater group for 2 - 3 shows a year and this happens to me about every other time I pull it out. Last time it only took me 5 minutes to remember what to do. Let...

Based on the CB Age Survey, I'm older than 90% on the site and probably have more vacation time than most on the site. I'm also lucky to have a great wife. My son, the DJ, also went to LDI with me. He knows several several club DJs in LV and around the country so he did a lot of networking...