[SML] Old theaters and dimmers

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The few Grand Masters I have met had scales on the individual dimmers,
of the usual 0 - 10 pattern. Even the most primotive boards, such as
the Junior 8, had scales.

It obvously dates from the days of 'colour wash' lighting, from which
I fear that our American colleagues have not yet wholly escaped.

On 12 December 2014 at 19:26, Dorian Kelly <illuminati500 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If it is like a GrandMaster they only had four settings apart from out: "a quarter"," a half"and  "at three quarters"  and "at Full" with a fine tuning of  "plus a bit" and "less a bit", upon which instruction the operator would wind the handle like a maniac and  take a wild guess as to when to knock each dimmer off the shaft. At the end of the the cue the op would spend the time till the next cue edging them into the correct positions.
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> DK
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> On 12 Dec 2014, at 19:10, e-mail frank.wood95 via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
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>> Amazing! The one thing I don't see is how you get anyinformation about
>> the level to which any given dimmer is set.
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Frank Wood