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I would've killed for the time for that. The whole project was months behind schedule (don't get me started), so we all had higher priorities than looking at XLR waylines.

We ended up with this situation when we opened our new facility last year, albeit unintentionally. The drawings clearly identified the count of male and female XLR connectors at each of the various panels around the building. The explanatory notes then made clear that the gender is to be...

4 weeks into the country being in lock down and working from home down here at the bottom of the world. Our government is providing a 12 week wage subsidy to businesses that can show a greater than 30% decrease in revenue due to the situation. I'm on a casual contract meaning my employer gives...

My suspicion would be the limit switches. If you hit the upper limit you want the hoist to disable going up but still want to be able to go down. If the phase rotation is backwards so that up is down and down is up then those limit switches won't engage and stop the travel, but it would stop...

Adding on to the comments about learning from experts. Recognise that not everyone who talks like an expert is actually an expert. Figure out who you can trust and who to take with a grain of salt.I have a degree in Electrical Engineering so would like to think I have a reasonable...

We absolutely expect it. We've been in our new venue for 5 months and repainted the stage for the first time last week. Admittedly not all the need for repainting can be blamed on theatre usage considering how much construction was still ongoing when it was originally painted.And we won't go...

As you've found there are some software packages that do these kind of things (and a whole lot more) but they tend to very much be at the expensive end of the spectrum. Some of the names that come to mind are ArtsVision, Artifax, Ungerboeck EMBS, and EventPro.I can't speak to all of your needs...

Post pictures again tomorrow of your settings once you have tried that so that someone here can check you've got it all correct.At this point I would consider doing a reset of the console before you try again as who knows what settings you might have inadvertently changed without realising...

Your first picture is the only one that is showing the S32 connected via the AES port A so you were on the right track at that point though the routing settings in that picture aren't correct.To get your microphone inputs from the stage box showing up on the console you need to adjust the...

Yes, the vast majority of things you will find in a theatre are Class 1 appliances and don't require any different or special treatment to what you will have learnt on your course. Remember that of the visual test is really the most important and will almost certainly be what most things fail...

I find it depends what you are doing with them.Plugging into a wall outlet - I generally try and avoid more than two tapons, maybe three at a push but unlikely if they are particularly show critical things. Connecting fixtures on a truss together where the connection will be taped and thus...

We've got a new facility under construction at the moment - just broken ground a few weeks ago. In the very early stages of the project there was no theatre consultant on the project and we (as the technical staff) were incredibly concerned with the first round of drawings that came out of the...

Welcome fellow Kiwi!I'm in Christchurch myself.

Nice little products. Being in New Zealand we see a few of them around. Have a client in our space at the moment with two of these running Pacifics with 5-13° barrels as followspots.Sometimes see them come in from the hire shops with with a Phillips/Strand single channel dimmer that takes DMX...

That's true, as long as there is 120° between phase currents then the maths holds. I figured that since we are considering the unbalanced case then it could be a bold assumption to make to assume that is true - it's all very dependent on what the physical loads are.If we are to be pedantic...