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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Hanging Lights the Easy Way
Occasionally I wander into a school or community theatre during load-in and notice lots of strange goings-on. Lighting techs up on ladders, balanced precariously with a wrench in one hand, trying to focus fresnels on set pieces or else the electrics going up and down so another attempt can be made to get the darn lights focused on their marks. "Darn, too high. Okay, bring it down. Darn, now it's too low."
Not only does this put techs at risk of breaking their necks (which we can ill afford; techs are hard to find and train) but it also wastes hours of time in inefficient trial-and-error attempts.
It's all so unnecessary if a little simple geometry is employed. Here's how you do an entire light hang in one drop of the electric.
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