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    Positioning two stage monitors for dance recital?

    When we used 2 we placed them flat on the down stage corners and pointed at upstage center. It gave us pretty good coverage of the stage as a mono mix.
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    Lights Turning Off Suddenly On Element 2 Board

    Are they Lustr 3's by chance? Ours have done this to me twice now during dance competitions where they've been left on at a static level for several hours. It's been hard to trouble shoot since it's only happened in the middle of an event. I'm pretty sure it's something the fixtures are doing...
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    Mirroring my computer to 2 different desks on two different floors of the house

    LinusTechTips has done a couple videos on stuff like this and it's always looked really expensive and hasn't been the most stable for him. I would probably buy a cheap refurbished dell from woot or some other seller that supports 3 monitors and then a remote desktop software to log into the...
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    LED Cycs

    We use a digital angle gauge for our cyc units and flown monitors. Once you figure out what angle you like you just set the rest of them on the ground. And then it's easy to repeat that angle in the future.
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    Speakers have rotated to wrong angle

    It's really hard to guess without pictures of the space. But you would most likely get up there with some kind of man lift or scaffolding. Since your part of a school I wouldn't be surprised if the district already owned something that would be able to let you get to them. The angle to point...
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    Best practices as house when hosting touring production's lighting network

    We typically do whatever the tour is comfortable with. If they want to send us sACN that's fine, and if they want to give us copper we just drop a node next to their console. We keep out consoles powered off to make sure there aren't any weird priority issues.
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    Expensive musicians chair

    A well know comedian that smashed food needed a special table built to his specs, at least it was on the rider so I had time to build it. Then he showed up the evening before his show and suddenly needed the hammer to smash things with. That was a fun evening scrambling around town to find the...
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    CM & Milwaukee announce the first wireless, battery chain hoist

    It only has a 20ft chain. That's going to be a pretty big limiting factor right now. I could see it being really useful for a stacking motor though. The riggers can get it in the air and running right away at the start of load in. And then the electricians can kill the power and pack up the...
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    Non-moving head fixtures with a gobo wheel???

    There were some as you can see in this thread. But as far as I know they're pretty rare and would probably be pretty hard to come by in decent working condition since most of them probably lived very hard lives in places like amusement parks. And getting any kind of support or parts when they...
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    Non-moving head fixtures with a gobo wheel???

    It looks like your basically spending the same amount of money to buy one of the profiles above or 2 regular LED fixtures with similar performance. So the moment you need 3 fixtures something like the fixtures above gets very easy to justify. And even if you only need 2 I could see the extra...
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    Non-moving head fixtures with a gobo wheel???

    The Robe T11 has an optional drop in unit, but again your well into the price range of just buying an actual moving light.
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    "Other duties as assigned"

    Ours were retrofitted during the pandemic. The faucets and soap dispensers are able to run off of battery or wall power. The toilets are battery only though. I really wish they would have spent the money to run power under the counters for them. The soap dispensers eat 4 D cell batteries every...
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    Nomad/Gadget

    We have a guest LD that comes in a couple times a year for a local ballet company and haven't had any problems plugging him into our Luminex network.
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    Leg extenders?

    It sounds like these platforms are all sitting on legs. Could you not just put a 1" tall block of wood under the legs? Or the much more available 3/4" tall block of wood and just cut all of your standard legs 1/16" shorter.
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