Radiant
Active Member
We installed 8 new PAR 56s today in one of the kids' buildings we're renovating. The debut service is tomorrow morning. It should've been 24 PARs, but the shipment was royally screwed up. We received two dimmer packs of the eight ordered, some random PAR 64 lamps that we didn't order, not enough clamps, and not enough safety cables. So with those 8 cans, I'm able to do only front light - no architectural light, no backlight. Bleh.
Ahh, but the power is, umm, interesting. We have seven circuits at our disposal, and I checked them all with my little polarity tester, and everything looked fine. But when I plugged in our spiffy new Elation Stage Setter 8, it didn't light up or function. The intern working with me moved the DC converter to an adjacent outlet, and noted that it was scorching hot. Long story short, about one third of the outlets are carrying 210 volts. It's completely random. There might be one 210 in a group with three 120's. Or all 210. I then remembered that I'd plugged in the dimmer packs (all two of them! Both!), but they don't appear to have suffered any damage.
It fried the DC converter for the console, but not the console itself. A quick dash to the corner Radio Shack, and I had a new white wall wart. I don't own a multimeter, but I will - tomorrow.
Ahh, but the power is, umm, interesting. We have seven circuits at our disposal, and I checked them all with my little polarity tester, and everything looked fine. But when I plugged in our spiffy new Elation Stage Setter 8, it didn't light up or function. The intern working with me moved the DC converter to an adjacent outlet, and noted that it was scorching hot. Long story short, about one third of the outlets are carrying 210 volts. It's completely random. There might be one 210 in a group with three 120's. Or all 210. I then remembered that I'd plugged in the dimmer packs (all two of them! Both!), but they don't appear to have suffered any damage.
It fried the DC converter for the console, but not the console itself. A quick dash to the corner Radio Shack, and I had a new white wall wart. I don't own a multimeter, but I will - tomorrow.