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maggie~hamilton
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"I work for a company that mamufactures and distributes theatrical lighting and accessories. The colours behind my face are one of the many effects we sell. <:"
What a cool job! When I was a kid, stage lighting and control boards was another of my many interests. I got involved in the Drama Club at school where the 1930s auditorium had an amazing, antiquated lighting system! There were permanent footlights that folded up out of the stage floor, 3 sets of border lights with red, green, blue and yellow glass lenses, a dozen 10" Fresnels in the stage ceiling, a dozen 12" Plano-Convex spots up in the auditorium ceiling (where you had to scamper along wooden catwalks above the plaster-and-chicken-wire ceiling to get to - one false step and you're down thru the ceiling -- scary!), then a half-dozen or so floor pockets for connecting huge metal trapezoid-shaped flood lights. This was all connected permanently to a gigantic wood and cast-iron resistance dimmer board in the stage-right wings. The emormous resistance plates were way up in the ceiling, connected by metal rods and pulleys to a 3-row rack of long iron handles down at floor level. Each row had a master handle, then there was a "master master" handle that was about 5 feet long, and it literally took two people to move it when all the banks of dimmers were connected to it! And Oh My lord the HEAT that that thing generated! It was WILD!!
I also got involved in local community theater groups, both of which had more modern, but rather rudimentary, lighting systems. I learned from the lighting director at one of the theatres how to make spot and flood lights out of PAR lamps and coffee cans!
As a vestige of that interest, I have a dozen or so Fresnels, Lekos, Plano-convex'es, and flood scoops in the ceiling of my garage workshop, connected to a plate-style resistance dimmer that I salvaged from my former church.
What a cool job! When I was a kid, stage lighting and control boards was another of my many interests. I got involved in the Drama Club at school where the 1930s auditorium had an amazing, antiquated lighting system! There were permanent footlights that folded up out of the stage floor, 3 sets of border lights with red, green, blue and yellow glass lenses, a dozen 10" Fresnels in the stage ceiling, a dozen 12" Plano-Convex spots up in the auditorium ceiling (where you had to scamper along wooden catwalks above the plaster-and-chicken-wire ceiling to get to - one false step and you're down thru the ceiling -- scary!), then a half-dozen or so floor pockets for connecting huge metal trapezoid-shaped flood lights. This was all connected permanently to a gigantic wood and cast-iron resistance dimmer board in the stage-right wings. The emormous resistance plates were way up in the ceiling, connected by metal rods and pulleys to a 3-row rack of long iron handles down at floor level. Each row had a master handle, then there was a "master master" handle that was about 5 feet long, and it literally took two people to move it when all the banks of dimmers were connected to it! And Oh My lord the HEAT that that thing generated! It was WILD!!
I also got involved in local community theater groups, both of which had more modern, but rather rudimentary, lighting systems. I learned from the lighting director at one of the theatres how to make spot and flood lights out of PAR lamps and coffee cans!
As a vestige of that interest, I have a dozen or so Fresnels, Lekos, Plano-convex'es, and flood scoops in the ceiling of my garage workshop, connected to a plate-style resistance dimmer that I salvaged from my former church.
Here's one for you Maggie.....
Cool vintage lights! They do get hot don't they?? <:
We now make an attachment that makes it possible to automate any Source Four type unit. I think even some of your vintage lights could be automated. (with a control board)
Cool vintage lights! They do get hot don't they?? <:
We now make an attachment that makes it possible to automate any Source Four type unit. I think even some of your vintage lights could be automated. (with a control board)
maggie~hamilton
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The automated lights are cool, but nowhere nearly as fun as crawling about on a catwalk 60 ft. above floor level to swap out gels!!
Great photo!!
And yes, the lights do get hot but I was talking about the antiquated resistance dimmer board -- dimming on those huge monsters was achieved by decreasing the current available to the load by introducing a variable resistance between supply and load. The excess current is converted into heat. When you had the entire bank on "low dim" position the heat was nearly unbearable up there above the stage!
The photo below shows the type of dimmer console my school had, except that the rheostat plates, instead of being directly connected to the control handles, were above the control board abot 10 ft. and connected to the levers with long steel trackers. It really was an amazing contraption!
(To give a size reference -- the dimmer board illustrated would have been about 7 ft. tall and 12 ft. wide!!)
Great photo!!
And yes, the lights do get hot but I was talking about the antiquated resistance dimmer board -- dimming on those huge monsters was achieved by decreasing the current available to the load by introducing a variable resistance between supply and load. The excess current is converted into heat. When you had the entire bank on "low dim" position the heat was nearly unbearable up there above the stage!
The photo below shows the type of dimmer console my school had, except that the rheostat plates, instead of being directly connected to the control handles, were above the control board abot 10 ft. and connected to the levers with long steel trackers. It really was an amazing contraption!
(To give a size reference -- the dimmer board illustrated would have been about 7 ft. tall and 12 ft. wide!!)
veg-o-matic
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Keith and me on the top of Sandia Peak. Cold and windy up there, so pardon the hair!
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maggie~hamilton
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What a nice, handsome couple. And your hair looks just fine.
So anything good in the Stuff Mart? Like a turquoise electric can opener?
The kleigal Bros resistence dimmer banks are interesting-now they have been replaced by solid state and autotransformer dimmers that take much less space and weight-and produce far less heat.Then translates to lower AC costs.In winter-in a cold area-the heat from those resistor dimmers would be welcome!I rember modern Kleigal solid state banks in a TV station studios.Was a 100Kw unit and it proiduced very little heat.The largest solid state dimmer bank in it could handle 10Kw.What was the largest lamp the resitor dimmer could handle?OOps-answered my own question-looked on Maggie Hamiltons dimmer info-14Kw.For today you would probably use an autotransformer or a saturable core reactor dimmer for a load that large.The transfroemr or saturable core reactor dimmer would be more efficient.Stage lighting equipment is interesting-dealt with a few used in TV stations.also that TV station had some arc lamp power suupplies whose AC is refrenced to the stations sync generator-no flicker from the lights on TV!
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Most of the theaters and TV stations around here used Strand
With a few Kliegls here and there. But ever since ETCs emergence as a huge lighting equipment manufacturer, all the new installations in the area are ETC.
With their HQ just down the road in Middleton, we get quick tech support.
-kevin
With a few Kliegls here and there. But ever since ETCs emergence as a huge lighting equipment manufacturer, all the new installations in the area are ETC.
With their HQ just down the road in Middleton, we get quick tech support.
-kevin
One of the stations here in Greenville had rather old Kleigal equipment-no dimmers-and the modern Kleigal setup I saw was in a TV statioon in Wash DC-this was in the late 70's though-sure they have changed it out by now-the station has also replaced their transmitters since then.Nowadays stations replace equipment more frequently than before-it used to be that major station items were going to be used for at least 20-40yrs-now it lucky to be used for 10 yrs.
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Heres a Scotsman for you.
Heres me very drunk with Siobhan. It was one of the many nights out we have with her girlfriend and my boyfriend, Charles.
Heres me very drunk with Siobhan. It was one of the many nights out we have with her girlfriend and my boyfriend, Charles.
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and a pair...
Another drunken night haha. I really need to stop only taking photos when i'm out clubbing.
Another drunken night haha. I really need to stop only taking photos when i'm out clubbing.
Tony and myself
I think we were in Dallas on one of his trips.
I think we were in Dallas on one of his trips.
Which is you Jon?
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I'm the one on the right and Tony on the left
I'm the one on the right and Tony on the left
At a wedding last month!
This one is not to clear but I will try it
Peter
This one is not to clear but I will try it
Peter
Here is me with some chef friends. It was taken last week at Walt Disney World in FL.
Mike
Mike
Marco, you're gorgeous, adoreable, cute, and handsome!!!
Marco d'Orso
I don't have a dog anymore since I had to put mine down 4 years ago :-(
’Tis me! hehe 
This was taken today. Sorry it’s a little blurry – slightly too close! I honestly have not enhanced it or anything to hide any wrinkles, etc. – I don’t have any. Yet. hehe This is straight off the camera.
And yes, that is a Tefal Actifry in the background – check the link for more details.
Hope this displays OK.
I thought I’d better get this up after Matt (Mattywashboy) put my last one up after offering to do if for me. Thanks for doing the last one, Matt.
Regards,
Carl
http://www.tefal.co.uk/tefal/produc...0442&mscssid=LKLBSJ2A9ECN9KXPM4LSFNG9LXEB2EUA
This was taken today.
Sorry it’s a little blurry – slightly too close! I honestly have not enhanced it or anything to hide any wrinkles, etc. – I don’t have any. Yet. hehe This is straight off the camera. And yes, that is a Tefal Actifry in the background – check the link for more details.
Hope this displays OK.
I thought I’d better get this up after Matt (Mattywashboy) put my last one up after offering to do if for me.
Thanks for doing the last one, Matt. Regards,
Carl
http://www.tefal.co.uk/tefal/produc...0442&mscssid=LKLBSJ2A9ECN9KXPM4LSFNG9LXEB2EUA
That ActiFry looks very fun. I need to see if T-Fal sells that here. Very handsome pic of ya Carl. Nuttin' to be ashamed of at all.
veg-o-matic
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That Actifry looks really cool. It's the next generation Cook 'N Stir!
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