rsiminoski
Member
Hello Hivemind,
I'm a new TD at a private school in southern california.
As expected there are a myriad of projects in the regular maintenance and upkeep of a PAC but we have a looming issue that is threatening to derail our productions.
The theater was equipped with Entertainment Technology IPS DS-1206 and 2403 dimmer sticks which are present on each electric, FOH, box booms, and catwalk locations.
These dimmer sticks have been failing pretty regularly and we are now at a point where if a few more sticks fail on us it will begin to affect production.
I am putting together a large capital improvement project to modernize the lighting system in the PAC but that will take time to build and get approved and implemented.
So I'm thinking in the short term it's time to either service our sticks or get some new sticks (looking at the Strand R21-S21 distributed dimmer sticks) to buy us the time necessary to get funding approved for a phased upgrade of our system.
Entertainment Technology, the manufacturer of our old sticks, no longer exists and was absorbed by Strand who I don't believe services these sticks anymore.
Is servicing our failing sticks a real option?? Are there vendors that service this old tech?
Or should we just invest in a few new replacements?
TIA
I'm a new TD at a private school in southern california.
As expected there are a myriad of projects in the regular maintenance and upkeep of a PAC but we have a looming issue that is threatening to derail our productions.
The theater was equipped with Entertainment Technology IPS DS-1206 and 2403 dimmer sticks which are present on each electric, FOH, box booms, and catwalk locations.
These dimmer sticks have been failing pretty regularly and we are now at a point where if a few more sticks fail on us it will begin to affect production.
I am putting together a large capital improvement project to modernize the lighting system in the PAC but that will take time to build and get approved and implemented.
So I'm thinking in the short term it's time to either service our sticks or get some new sticks (looking at the Strand R21-S21 distributed dimmer sticks) to buy us the time necessary to get funding approved for a phased upgrade of our system.
Entertainment Technology, the manufacturer of our old sticks, no longer exists and was absorbed by Strand who I don't believe services these sticks anymore.
Is servicing our failing sticks a real option?? Are there vendors that service this old tech?
Or should we just invest in a few new replacements?
TIA