This past summer i worked a show and the dimmers chosen by the LD was an ETC Sensor 98. So i thought i would share a story to see if anyone has encountered the same problem that we did. We rigged our whole show and connected all of the cables to the dimmer. The board was connected and everything seemed to be ok. However when we went to check eveything (patches and lamps) nothing went on! We then spent countless hours trying to figure out what was going on between the board and dimmer. All of the breakers were on, power was getting to the dimmer, all dmx cables we going to their correct places, the master slider was up, and on and on.......... FINALLY, after contacting the rental company, we had found our problem. Because the sensor racks have slide out removable dimmers, each and every dimmer had come out of position during transport, so we didn't notice. I found this to be hilarious because such a simple thing had caused us such a big problem. I think that ETC should consider some kind of locking mechinism for the sensor series to avoid this problem. Now of course we know to make sure all of the dimmers were pushed in all of the way before we start!
I just wanted to share this story so anyone who has used this rack and possibly experianced a similar problem, might now be able to fix it, and to let you know of this in case you run into a similar problem.
I just wanted to share this story so anyone who has used this rack and possibly experianced a similar problem, might now be able to fix it, and to let you know of this in case you run into a similar problem.
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