mikeschulz530
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Hey, alright so I've got 2 questions, and I'm hoping someone is able to help out!
First, I'll give you some background; I'm a HS Student who is COMPLETELY in charge of our lighting system, so going to ask my teacher/director for help isn't really worth the time. We have a less than 2 -year-old ECT Element 60-500 board.
So my first question is probably much easier than the other, but does anyone know if we have enough Cyc Lights? The stage (the visable part at least) is about 60' across by 20' tall, and we have a total of 8 Altman Cyc lights (sorry, I don't know the exact model, if there are multiple kinds). They hang from a fly bar and are about 4-5 feet from the cyc at their furthest distance (probably not ideal, I know).
Anyway, we are doing Legally Blonde and we are going to attempt to use the lights for the first time, except not on a cyc. We will be using them to light a backdrop, all neutral colors, that will look like a sky (very similar to the Broadway production, if anyone has seen it).
Is this even plausible? We would like to have a RGBW pallet to pick from, but i dont know that 2 lights will cover the whole drop.
Any ideas or suggestions? -Could we Possibly limit our color pallet to be able to use only those lights?
Part Two: We have spontaneously had over 15 of our Fresnel's stop working (not 100% sure if it was all at once, or over a period of time, but we noticed it randomly very recently). I'm led to believe that the lamps have died, but I also feel like these have died much too quickly. We do use the lights during our rehearsals, school assemblies, ceremonies, ect. But we have only had them for, as I said less than two years. Does this sound like it might be our problem?
We checked the patching, nothing wrong there, and have also put every channel to full whit no results. I have not going up to the fixtures themselves (lots of doors need to be unlocked by keys that I do not have, so I would like to see if its worth the trouble to go up and physically check them out.) I also have not called the company, who has been nothing but amazing while we've needed to troubleshoot in the past. Again, any ideas?? We have our first show of Blonde in less than a month and we're hoping we dont have to do it in the dark!
Thank you so much for your help!
First, I'll give you some background; I'm a HS Student who is COMPLETELY in charge of our lighting system, so going to ask my teacher/director for help isn't really worth the time. We have a less than 2 -year-old ECT Element 60-500 board.
So my first question is probably much easier than the other, but does anyone know if we have enough Cyc Lights? The stage (the visable part at least) is about 60' across by 20' tall, and we have a total of 8 Altman Cyc lights (sorry, I don't know the exact model, if there are multiple kinds). They hang from a fly bar and are about 4-5 feet from the cyc at their furthest distance (probably not ideal, I know).
Anyway, we are doing Legally Blonde and we are going to attempt to use the lights for the first time, except not on a cyc. We will be using them to light a backdrop, all neutral colors, that will look like a sky (very similar to the Broadway production, if anyone has seen it).
Is this even plausible? We would like to have a RGBW pallet to pick from, but i dont know that 2 lights will cover the whole drop.
Any ideas or suggestions? -Could we Possibly limit our color pallet to be able to use only those lights?
Part Two: We have spontaneously had over 15 of our Fresnel's stop working (not 100% sure if it was all at once, or over a period of time, but we noticed it randomly very recently). I'm led to believe that the lamps have died, but I also feel like these have died much too quickly. We do use the lights during our rehearsals, school assemblies, ceremonies, ect. But we have only had them for, as I said less than two years. Does this sound like it might be our problem?
We checked the patching, nothing wrong there, and have also put every channel to full whit no results. I have not going up to the fixtures themselves (lots of doors need to be unlocked by keys that I do not have, so I would like to see if its worth the trouble to go up and physically check them out.) I also have not called the company, who has been nothing but amazing while we've needed to troubleshoot in the past. Again, any ideas?? We have our first show of Blonde in less than a month and we're hoping we dont have to do it in the dark!
Thank you so much for your help!