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- If at all possible to cable an instrument to a dimmer without using a stagepin extension, please do so.
- You can daisy-chain scoops with two-fers so that they only use one dimmer.
- If you are using Colorados try to chain them together with Powercon and DMX. If they are not close enough to each other to chain, you might be able to convince your LD to move them. You can also daisy-chain the DMX and Powercon into the Vari-Lites, but only DMX can come out. You must use an Edison extension cord from the Vari-Lite to the ground. COLORados will take 3-pin or 5-pin DMX, but Vari-Lites and pretty much everything else will only take 5-pin, so you can use 3-pin between COLORados if you are running low on 5-pin.
- You are going to have to run a chain of DMX from the light board to the dimmer closet to the light board, so that can go through the COLORados and Vari-Lites. This chain can (and probably should) run through all of the lighting instruments that use DMX.
- There might be more things. Find a former ME or an LD if you have questions about things.
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Yes, that's right. You get to run light hang during Put-In. This basically means that you are in charge of the entire light plot - cables and all - being up on the pipes by the end of the day. You can't fully focus instruments until the stage is up (or at least taped out), but you can rough focus instruments in the general direction that the light plot indicates when you hang them. Also, OPEN THE SHUTTERS. This is so that you can actually see if the instrument is working during instrument check.
It would be cool if you could test all of the cables before you hang them, but that's not always possible given time constraints. If you don't, though, you will definitely have to fix some things during the day on Monday.
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