Yes, but wouldn't you then need "right
hand" and "left
hand" modules, and you'd invariably run out of the wrong type. You have
ETC dimmers and
Strand consoles? Best of both worlds?
Dimmers were a new install before last season. Due to our relationship with
ETC (Karl Haas being one of our designers) we got a great deal on new Sensor+ racks. The
strand consoles are still functioning fine, and when
Strand discontinues support for them in 2010 we will probably upgrade (to what, I am not sure yet).
Just being able to run off a
dimmer in
non dim mode doesnt make up for how much a
source four revolution is a piece of crap. I'll take an x-spot any day over a
source four revolution, heck i'll take an american dj
fixture over a
source four revoultion, at least they will go back to their proper position and have dicroic colors.
Not that we need to have this discussion, but the Revolution does what it is supposed to do really well. It is a theatrical
fixture, it isn't designed for
flash and trash. With the choices for affordable and useful
Tungsten/
halogen fixtures at basically either a VL1000 or Revolution, it isn't a bad choice. It has a lot more
ups than just being about to be connected to a
dimmer.
I guess I live in a world where movers have their own
distro. (
road shows,
etc) So what is different in the theater? Is it the need to be able to shut everything off at the end of the night from the board?
With most
stage lights using
stage pin connectors, and most movers being equipped with
Edison, the two worlds seam self isolating. I am making the assumption that many convert the movers to
stage pin connectors and have some form of patch bay where they are assigned.
The difference comes especially in houses that have dedicated raceways and dimmer-per-circuit systems. If you are hanging a ML on a
lineset with a dedicated
raceway, it is a lot easier to just connect to a
circuit that is right there and toss in a
non dim/
relay card as opposed to running extra cable up from a
distro. I have worked in theatres that run
power up, but that was because all their MLs were 208v.
As for the
connector issue, most fixtures come with bare
tails, at least in my experience. If you buy a MAC2K, they don't know if you are going to run it on 208v and use an L6-20 or if you are going to run it on 120v and use
edison. Sure, if you buy an AMDJ
fixture you will probably get something with either and
IEC or powercon to moulded
edison, but the users of those fixtures only use
edison. Connectors really don't separate anything.