Hi, im a student in high school, and i have a question about how to turn on the main breaker to a dimmer rack.
Lately in our school auditorium, the lighting system has been acting funny. The house light haven't been working, and sometimes the stage lights get stuck on when controlling them from the architectural panel. The system we have is rather old. it is a Lehigh original DX rack. There have been several brownouts in the down because of storms before these problems started happening. And the sensor dimmer racks at the larger elementary school auditorium where we do our shows needed to be reset because of the brownouts, so i figured that that's what needed to happen with the Lehigh rack. So I read the manuel, and it mentions nothing about how to reset the rack, and three was no power button on the control modegul, and no reset button. So i decided to turn of the main breaker at the bottom of the rack on and off again, figuring that's maybe how one resets it, and its meant to do that because you need to kill the power to service anyway. The breaker is located at the bottom of the rack, and it is about 2 inches wide. So i went to turn it off and it had some resistance but then it turned off with a little effort. When i went to turn the rack back on, the breaker switch came up, but it would not click on. I pulled it up with a good amount of force too, and it still wont click. What is wrong with it? Do I have to pull up harder on it? Is it not meant to turn back on? Was the system just old and the breaker no good anymore?
Also, i know i probably shouldn't have touched it in the first place, and that i am still learning and unexperienced and could have gotten severely injured dealign with the high voltage and current. so please help me buy simply answering my questions. (also please excuse any spelling...I'm not the best...)
-Thanks
Lately in our school auditorium, the lighting system has been acting funny. The house light haven't been working, and sometimes the stage lights get stuck on when controlling them from the architectural panel. The system we have is rather old. it is a Lehigh original DX rack. There have been several brownouts in the down because of storms before these problems started happening. And the sensor dimmer racks at the larger elementary school auditorium where we do our shows needed to be reset because of the brownouts, so i figured that that's what needed to happen with the Lehigh rack. So I read the manuel, and it mentions nothing about how to reset the rack, and three was no power button on the control modegul, and no reset button. So i decided to turn of the main breaker at the bottom of the rack on and off again, figuring that's maybe how one resets it, and its meant to do that because you need to kill the power to service anyway. The breaker is located at the bottom of the rack, and it is about 2 inches wide. So i went to turn it off and it had some resistance but then it turned off with a little effort. When i went to turn the rack back on, the breaker switch came up, but it would not click on. I pulled it up with a good amount of force too, and it still wont click. What is wrong with it? Do I have to pull up harder on it? Is it not meant to turn back on? Was the system just old and the breaker no good anymore?
Also, i know i probably shouldn't have touched it in the first place, and that i am still learning and unexperienced and could have gotten severely injured dealign with the high voltage and current. so please help me buy simply answering my questions. (also please excuse any spelling...I'm not the best...)
-Thanks