Slight screw up
Added 2024-08-15 02:07:09 +0000 UTCWe got a report that one of our lights was behaving oddly. It's part of a group of seven that normally operate in sync, but this one was seen to take an odd path to some of its positions and shake slightly.
When we got up to it, it was slowly rotating continuously, making us think it had a pan encoder issue. So we swapped it out.
It actually turned out that the lighting programmer had been experimenting with using it for a lighthouse effect to match one of the video projections onto the castle, and after that cue it kept rotating, meaning that when it tried to go to a fixed position it would be doing so from a random state. That was why it was rotating when we got to it, was taking a different path from the other lights and also why it was shaking slightly due to a sudden extreme movement from the random position.
The desk operator dropped the cue anyway.
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Comments
I have limited experience with stage lighting, RS-485 and the MIDI universe, but I did learn that you've got to perform a hard reset on the complex lighting accessory before you think you can start to talk to or control it and get expected outcomes. These kind of devices that are supposed to 'drop in' to whatever system you're running could also be misusing their own memory allocation... that's my best guess as to root cause of the crazy behavior.
Joel Murphy
2024-08-16 02:53:31 +0000 UTCI cut my teeth on the Colortrans, then Whole Hog. In-between that I'd occasionally have to use an ETC Express and it really threw me for a loop compared to the other two. I'll date myself even more: I have a Kliegl nameplate stuck to the side of one of my racks.
Sean M
2024-08-15 07:29:04 +0000 UTCAs someone that learned to program on ETC Express/Expression boards, and now get to occasionally program an ECT EOS board, I can understand the mix up. I do not like tracking consoles for this reason.
Dustin S Cochran
2024-08-15 02:29:21 +0000 UTC
