Almost every conventional fixture since the mid 1990s has a built-in safety attachment point. Do you use it?
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I personally think yoke failure in any way is highly unlikely. The most likely cause would be one of the bolts to work it's way out (which should never even come close to happening), but even then, I think one bolt would hold it up. It's a good idea, but it's most useful quality would probably be to cover the manufacturer's back in case something weird did happen. I couldn't imagine a yoke bolt sheering off or coming out completely on accident. The integral safety point is really a pretty thin piece of casting, and with enough force, it could crack and snap off as well.
Might as well safety the barrel while you're at it. I would think it's more likely to slide out and pop someone in the head than the entire yoke coming loose from the fixture.
I think I've only focused an SL once, but if one rotates the barrel 180° (and I don't see the need for any more than +/- 45°) doesn't the gobo holder fall out? How strong is the colorframe clip?...allowing for their 360deg barrel rotation,...
Are you talking about choking the loop end through the safety attachment hole? I've never seen that.
Depends on the fixture. With the Strand SL's, the yoke attaches to a ring around the barrel, allowing for their 360deg barrel rotation, but the barrel really only rests within this ring. I was shocked the first time I saw it, but I have seen SL's where the plastic ring for the rotation broke. This means that the light really isn't being held up by anything more than sheer luck. because the yoke really only attaches securely to that ring.
Are you talking about choking the loop end through the safety attachment hole? I've never seen that.
I think the proper way is to either swage one's own safeties through the hole (which I've never seen--as stated elsewhere, it's generally not economical or wise to manufacture one's own safeties), or choke the pipe and clip to the attachment point.
Is it ratcheting/inertia wheel, like a seat belt?...Some of their products like the Fresnels even have this clever retractor device built in so that you can have as little or as much cable as you need...
I don't know "yoke joint", but the Strand series below (on the left, LEKO with a star in the "O") had the attachment (two actually) on the side of the body, opposite the tilt-lock. Clever design, but I pissed off others when I used it.
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