gels
I used
pounce wheel from the costume shop to aerate the gels once and it seemed to work fairly well.
For me, the biggest baking problem I have is with my
Altman Sky cycs, largely because I run 1500's in them and have teenaged lighting technicians.
They seem to follow the "This is Spinal Tap" method of assigning intensities.
And yes, if it were possible they would make the board exceed one hundred percent.
But they also like using the bump buttons for dance concerts so...they then realize that if the
cyc is already at 100 percent the
bump button does absolutely nothing.
I have been trying to get them to realize that the "keep the lights at 80 percent" is a good idea, as the director will undoubtedly ask for more light constantly if you have them all at one hundred percent, yet never if you are at 80 percent.
Oh and BTW I use sky silks in the Altmans so the diffusion probably doesn't help the early burnout I (I mean my gels) experience.
Big Gorilla