What's wrong in these pictures?

What wrong in these pictures?

I have to go in to school now to get a few numbers, I'll snap some pics of my catwalks for comparison.

 

Re: Tricks for storing gear in catwalks?

Er, so yea, there are some key differences, but from first impressions, I think I like mine better.

(P.S. Someone already gave the pride-of-place speech, last time I posted pics... so I should cleaned before I took these, or something.)

Edit:
Note the lighting that comes from both fluro work lights, and small rope-light style lighting along the floor.
The grating is pretty small, but even so gel frames and other objects can fit through, however most of the section of catwalk are over sound tiles, which catches anything that would fall through. Fall limiters along each lighting position, midrails, and nice distribution. (What's that called? raceway?) Plus netting, emergency power loss and fire alarm lighting. (Appears that we have two separate systems in the building.) as well as fire extinguishers... classy.


Picture#1: H.R. Catwalk

Picture#1 above.

Picture#2: 4th AP Slot to the left, sound tiles to the right, leading to back of house with the DMX run on top running under the gaff.

Picture#2 above.

Picture#3: 4th AP Slot

Picture#3 above.

Picture#4: H.L. Catwalk Stairs

Picture#4 above.

Picture#5: H.L. Catwalk

Picture#5 above.

 

Re: Tricks for storing gear in catwalks?

18 months. (Prescription sleep aids, ha, always have some in my house.)

Uh okay what's wrong:

That fallen piece of gel I see in the first picture.

The way the cables are laid out as trip hazards.

The fact that the fire extinguishers aren't secured.

(Not pictured: The IC cable running up the ladder, as to be a trip hazard.)

The fact that we cut through the netting.

The dimples in the pipe, and portion of pipe visible where an inch or two of paint has been scraped off, creating a future structural weak point, due to oxidation. (It's all over the place!)

 

Re: What wrong in these pictures?

Lets see... Let me try to add... tripping already covered...
(good mental exercise!)

1) Don't see anything securing the Lycian on casters.
2) Nasty cable at the connector plugged in #113
3) Hot end of the ERS pushed up against the netting...
4) Don't see safety cables on all the lights, but they may be out of view.

Of course, compared to a rock and roll road show, looks like a pleasure! (Walking trusses 30 feet up comes to mind!)

Well, off to the NYE party! See everyone in 2008!

 

Not only is the cap against the netting, I'll have you know I have all my 6x22s lamped with 1,000W FELs.

Re: Cable at 113.
Yea, probably 40%-60% of the connectors in the theatre (not including the new raceways) have improper / no strain relief. The cable at 113 should be fixed, but on most other connectors, it is the "thin" type jacket/cable, and there no longer is that little plastic piece in the connector to old on to something that thin, so it just won't old the jacket in.

Edit: Most should have safeties, we have just about enough. Some safeties in better conditions than others. I've had to make some judgement calls in which instruments get better safeties, and which don't get any at all.

 

Can't say too much there! I once crammed a FEL in a 3.5 leko for an effect!

Hee hee! You guys!
Now I really do have to go to the party!

 

Hint: There are two repeated circuits (i.e. CKT CKT CKT 189 CKT CKT CKT 190 CKT CKT CKT 190 CKT CKT CKT 189 CKT CKT CKT) (Not an actual representation of what I have, but it conveys the distribution well) on each lighting position. Forgetting they were repeated caused me to trip the breaker on the dimmer once, when circuiting PAR56-500W MFLs.

Flush-mount would be aesthetically pleasing, but I think in this circumstance pig-tales (pig-tails?) are better suited for the space.

Derek nailed the info on the lycian.

Derek, the same genius that did all the work. I think the idea was that... no I don't know. While we're on the subject of raceway placement, I noticed on the 4 AP slots, 3 raceways are installed in one orientation, and 1 is installed backwards. (Most visible in Picture 3, between 112 and 184. The one installed "backwards" has the orientation reversed. The one upside is, as visible in picture 3, the raceways installed "forwards" have the pig-tales resting on the pipe. Which is sort of weird.)

Referencing Pic 2 & 3, what is keeping that raceway up, as opposed to rotating down? It looks to me like the only thing securing it is the the duct thing where all the circuits come in. (Conduit?), unless those U bolts are really tight, I guess.

 

Wouldn't Pigtailed sockets provide better stress relief on both the socket and the plug, compared to a flush mount receptacle? Also, With stage pin connectors, wouldn't it cause the connections to unplug themselves from gravity?

 

Re: Gaff, the 3rd party smiley you used made that post. However, I'll not I was following your lead, post 10.

Re: 4th AP. I think we're misunderstanding each-other slightly on the un-usability here. The issue is that with the position of the pipe in relation to the sound tiles, you can't get any useable angle. We could get the "orchestra pit", aka the front row, when removed, but that's about it. As you can see, my "genius-ness" was able to squeeze one instrument into that position, the 1KL6 pictured in #3. It is shooting through the gap in the two section of tiles. My understanding is that a vertical drop-down extender of perhaps 12" would remedy this problem. I've got authorization to buy one, to check it out. I think I'll end up recommending the city theatrical model from the internet. The local theatre supply guy had not heard of a vertical extender, after clearing up some confusion as to wether or not I wanted a sidearm, he checked his Altman catalogue, told me he could sell them, and gave me some dodgy info on lengths that I no longer remember.

Re: pig-tails (?). My understanding is that properly split pins should not be overcome by gravity. If my connector starts falling out I reach for my PinSplitterII.

 

What about the random retractable life line by the follow spot. If you need one there you should have one every where else.
JH