Identify this please?

[agbobeck]

Found this in the booth at my work, no idea what it is.

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[Amiers]

Looks like a homemade audio lifter at first glance.

 

[agbobeck]

Except thee is no signal thru it is terminated at the switch


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[TheaterEd]

It may be a cue light signal of some kind.

 

[SteveB]

It's a single pole. double throw switch, with a non-typical use of a 3 pin XLR connector, that seemingly gets signal up a pin and routes down one pin or the other, switch location dependent.

Could control anything that is Lo-Vo.

 

[BillESC]

My vote is a cue light switch.

 

[agbobeck]

but there is no power to switch to the cue light.

 

[SteveB]

Power comes up one of the 3 pins, goes down a 2nd for one "state", down the 3rd for the 2nd "state". Presumably ground Is present at the lamp(s) to complete the circuit, thus not needed at the switch.


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[StradivariusBone]

Microphone decontaminator. I'd store it right next to your par lamp oil and your ID-10t's for easy access for when your new techs need something to do.

 

[BillConnerFASTC]

Microphone decontaminator. I'd store it right next to your par lamp oil and your ID-10t's for easy access for when your new techs need something to do.

Is that like washing the gels? (Probably a few here who miss that one entirely.)

 

[bdkdesigns]

Looks like the manual trigger for a Projector Dowser known as "The Flapper". The older styles had this type of switch in this type of box. Perhaps you have the other end somewhere?

http://www.response-box.com/mini.shtml

 

[MikeJ]

Is that like washing the gels? (Probably a few here who miss that one entirely.)

I recently discovered, that the color on rosco or lee gel(cannot remember which it was) is alcohol soluble. So a new generation of interns can wash the dirty gels!

 

[Comms Guy]

So, if what you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...

But it seems that if you took a standard Clear-Com XLR-3 and shorted power (pin 2) to ground (pin 1), you'd have a decent Remote Mic Kill for everyone on on that channel.
If you take power and shorted to audio (pin 3) you'd have a call signal, albeit with a big THUMP noise associated with it, if you don't add a voltage regulator.

Though it sure looks like a projector shutter controller, if you want to use it elsewhere, it'll probably make a fine Remote Mic Kill / Call Signal box for single channel intercom.