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Author Topic: Tips for Booth Operations Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 06-08-2007 01:31 PM                        I've never seen someone carry a lamp, without the carrier on it, the length of the booth in booths that clamp the carrier to the DC cables. I have, many times, in booths that don't do this. It's probably not a coincidence.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-08-2007 05:25 PM                     I've been placing the lamp covers on the DC leads for going on 27 years. Its right at arms length and if the operator chooses to ignore its purpose thats his own lazy fault. To people on booth tours I tell them its the baby bottle warmer. Mark  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-08-2007 10:28 PM                     Yet with me practically running console units all my xenon years, yet, in my earlier experiences, I did do a booth with separate lamphouse - and I did clamp the cover on the DC cables. But, then I had to ask myself, "Why have the carrier here where the box is over across the booth or in a storage room, so why not have them together and save a trip?" Yep, I'm proud to be lazy, but I'm more efficent that way...you find tricks to ease the work some .. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 06-09-2007 02:58 AM                        quote: Monte L Fullmer But, then I had to ask myself, "Why have the carrier here where the box is over across the booth or in a storage room, so why not have them together and save a trip?" Yep, I'm proud to be lazy, but I'm more efficent that way...you find tricks to ease the work some .. So now you've got the cardboard box wrapped around the DC leads too. That works, I guess.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-09-2007 12:51 PM                     (Oh Brother..)  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-09-2007 09:35 PM                     quote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea So now you've got the cardboard box wrapped around the DC leads too. That works, I guess. Reports are that Monte has done just that by using the plastic lamp wrapper supplied with those lamps to affix the box to the cables. Good idea Monte Mark  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-09-2007 10:47 PM                     (lol... ) Okey, so I threw a curve ball and it got missed by the switch hitters...I meant to say that I put the carrier and the box together back in the cupboard after I do the bulb changeout thingey instead of having the carrier grasping the cables so they don't come apart when they get all heated up during operation and the box across the other side of the booth where the storage cupboard is...... I know, it's time to be picked on after awhile .... -Monte  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-10-2007 07:59 AM                     quote: Monte L Fullmer when they get all heated up during operation Hopefully not .  |  IP: Logged

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