hey all, crazy question:
When in a show setting where you have the ability to manually patch circuits to dimmers and are attempting to balance feeder load correctly, rather than just looking at wattages of individual lights, and plugging in per math, does anyone look at it in terms of systems?
i.e: by the straight wattage math you've just patched your show in attempt to balance loads, only to discover you've just patched all the backlight systems together on the same leg. (a system with lights most likely to come on at full wattage the same time for longer periods)
i only ask cuz i'm in control of a dimming system that is basically a hodge-podge of single phase 12pack dimmers where the main 3 phase feeder legs are teed-off all to hell to power them. Patching for balanced loads is a nightmare where normally i'm dealing with full 3phase racks and have to think a little less to be balanced.
I guess i'm just wondering how others approach balancing loads in actual practice....
When in a show setting where you have the ability to manually patch circuits to dimmers and are attempting to balance feeder load correctly, rather than just looking at wattages of individual lights, and plugging in per math, does anyone look at it in terms of systems?
i.e: by the straight wattage math you've just patched your show in attempt to balance loads, only to discover you've just patched all the backlight systems together on the same leg. (a system with lights most likely to come on at full wattage the same time for longer periods)
i only ask cuz i'm in control of a dimming system that is basically a hodge-podge of single phase 12pack dimmers where the main 3 phase feeder legs are teed-off all to hell to power them. Patching for balanced loads is a nightmare where normally i'm dealing with full 3phase racks and have to think a little less to be balanced.
I guess i'm just wondering how others approach balancing loads in actual practice....