@Rob Fulton What
console, make and model, presently controls your
system? [Be it dimmers, non-dims, incandescents, fluorescents. LED's no matter what] Regardless of your quantities and types of loads, what is your
console?
My thinking is a simple remotely located normally open mechanically latching single pole
toggle or push
button connected via a 2
conductor cable to terminals already in place on the rear of your
console to provide remote operation such as: Calling up a stored
preset,
submaster, group or
cue saved in your
console for the sole purpose of allowing illumination of sources of your choosing to levels of your choosing 24/7/365 by anyone with access to the space WITHOUT giving them access to your board or booth or allowing them to choose which lights to utilize or at which levels. With many consoles you could have the lights ramp gently up in 3 seconds and possibly
fade out in 20 seconds to allow users to safely exit the room. This would be simple and practically "dirt cheap" to facilitate with a great many popular consoles.
Normally such external control contacts are included to facilitate interconnection with fire alarm panels where authorities may decree ALL lights to 100% in a zero count and won't want to hear about how little illumination your
Roscolux #85 back lights are providing while they're burning holes through your
gel OR they're often employed to facilitate cleaning when they normally only burn selected fixtures of your choosing rather then putting untold hours of extra time on your revenue generating fixtures. For how I'm interpreting your request, this seems to me to be a reasonable, time and cost effective approach to meeting your needs with a couple of gentle fades included as subtle bonuses. Please do tell the make and model of your present control
console and I suspect a myriad of our experts will scamper to your aid. Alternately, you can spend more money and make things as complicated as you like. I suspect you could also post a note outside in the illuminated corridor where kids from 6 to 60 could read instructions for calling up illumination with the
cell phone babies are being born with attached to their palms.
Please forgive this old
blind geezer for scoffing at our present generation.
My great granddaughter is still of an age where she snoozes a lot while sporting her tiny shirt stating: "There's a
nap for that!"
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard.
