I will make the same comment i make on every thread of this question.
It is almost imposible to cause permenent damage to a lighting
console by simply pressing buttons and programing. If you
spill a coke thats a differnt story.
So what if someone erases your cues then you just put in your backed up disk, if you were stupid enough to let someone on your
desk that you have not saved to disk then you are two unqualified to train a tech.
So what if they change settings on your
console you can always put them back, and stop your complaining it takes mere seconds to put the time on the
console back to the corect one.
if they erase your patch you should have done a back up disk of your show file wich includes your patch. if your so worried about it then make a back up disk before you start building a show and
call it your fresh boot disk so your patches are always the same.
What can someone do to the board brandnew or not.
My answer to the question of how long before letting them on the board, is not one that is provided in your
poll what i would answer is the very first day.
We do not learn to drive from a
book they put us in a car in a controlled enviroment. So we can screw up safely and school is that controlled enviroment to screw up.l Not to let the person on to the
console as of the first day seems like your prserving your postion insted of letting it go.
Let them on it affter school for 2 hours esspecialy with an
express with in the first 30 min if you do it right they will be programing simple cues setting the patch and putting
fade in and out . by the end of the 2 hours if you only provided enough info to get them by and left the room so they could just mess around they will most definitely be able to not well but still function most parts of the
console.
how do i know this? because i was the technical director at the dave phillips studio
theatre and the Poor alex
theatre where we had to train new board ops with every show and it took them about 1 hour to be completly 100% functional with the board so i have added an addtional hour to account for an complet novice.
Hope that helps you understand my method
JH