September 2006
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
11h 9m
English
book
Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light in Theatre, Live Performance, Broadcast, and Entertainment
by Richard Cadena
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Chapter 20
Preventive Maintenance and Troubleshooting
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.—Russell Baker, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist
When automated lighting systems were in their infancy, two things were certain: they were sure to impress and they were sure to break down. The MARC 350 lamp, which was originally designed for 16-mm movie projectors, was a popular lamp source for automated lighting in the early 1980s because it has an integral dichroic reflector, a high color temperature, and a relatively small arc. But it also required the use of an electronic switching power supply, which, at the time, proved to be ...