hira
Member
During our strike on closing night, I was overseeing the counterbalance as we were taking Source Fours and Auras off of 1st and 2nd Electric. On 2nd electric, as I took lights off, I took weight off. This seemed to work fine and everything ended up being in balance. However, when we went to do the same on 1st, we had a failure and the pipe came crashing down, causing some minor injuries. No one is giving me a straight answer on why this happened. We have a single purchase system for context, and we were putting on 20 pounds, maybe 50 pounds once. I think we just took too much weight off, but it doesn't make sense because I had only taken 1-3 weights off, each around 20 pounds and around 5-6 lights each clocking in at about 15 pounds. People have been telling me that as we take lights off, we take weight off the counterbalance, obviously this failed. I want to avoid this problem again, please advise.