One of the posts in another thread made me think of this story, thought I'd share:
One of the spaces on our campus has an ETC 48 unit rack, and we're using multiplexers along the 4 FOH pipes (only stage lights, really)... the dimmer rack pretty much does all the lighting control.
Anyway, as part of the chapel program, I was one of the 'primary' users of the space.... also, in the most 'technologically advanced' user group... all the others expect it to work when they press all the architectural buttons neutral
Anyway, during one of our prolific holiday services apparently "some lights went out" and they wouldn't come back on. Of course, I didn't find out until I got back to school from christmas break, and went to go use the lights... and noticed a solid third of them weren't coming up... I ask the space custodians, and they say that about a 1/3 went out during a service, and didn't come back on.... so I head up to the rack... lo and behold, "PHASE C ERROR".
...
That's a mains issue, no way am I dealing with the mains service line.
Campus electrictian comes, apparently there is no three phase to the ceiling (or to the building, at that time), so they wired up a three wire single phase breaker box. Anyway, he opens up the box... apparently they blew one of the 400 amp fuses. So he returned a bit later, installed a new one, back to normal...
I was still kinda like wtf you lost 1/3 of your lighting, didn't you think it'd be a problem?
One of the spaces on our campus has an ETC 48 unit rack, and we're using multiplexers along the 4 FOH pipes (only stage lights, really)... the dimmer rack pretty much does all the lighting control.
Anyway, as part of the chapel program, I was one of the 'primary' users of the space.... also, in the most 'technologically advanced' user group... all the others expect it to work when they press all the architectural buttons neutral
Anyway, during one of our prolific holiday services apparently "some lights went out" and they wouldn't come back on. Of course, I didn't find out until I got back to school from christmas break, and went to go use the lights... and noticed a solid third of them weren't coming up... I ask the space custodians, and they say that about a 1/3 went out during a service, and didn't come back on.... so I head up to the rack... lo and behold, "PHASE C ERROR".
...
That's a mains issue, no way am I dealing with the mains service line.
Campus electrictian comes, apparently there is no three phase to the ceiling (or to the building, at that time), so they wired up a three wire single phase breaker box. Anyway, he opens up the box... apparently they blew one of the 400 amp fuses. So he returned a bit later, installed a new one, back to normal...
I was still kinda like wtf you lost 1/3 of your lighting, didn't you think it'd be a problem?