Rigging
Steel Spansets are wired cable used to secure indoor rigs when flying truss and lighting. There are Nylon spansets used also but are meant for outdoor use to safely hold flown truss in place. Other appliances are shackles that connect to the spansets to hold them in place, motor cables to power your truss motors to help lift your truss from the ground, locking carabineers are used for lock points in a safety kit, life lines are used to tie onto the truss with a sling so the truss doesn’t fall and potentially injure of kill someone, 'O' and 'D' ring are extenders to put rope through the rigging points of truss and motor to connect. For your truss points I learned that you need to chalk out the particular points to mark as drop points so the guy suspended above knows where to drop safety cables to the stage.
Ah onto abbreviations and nicknames:
WFL- Wide Flood Lens
MFL- Medium Flood Lens
NSP- Narrow Spot Lens
HPL- Halogen lamp
BO- Break out
FO- Female out
MO- Male out
SPG- Stage Pin
Blinders/Moles= 8 or 9 Lights
3 Phase Power Distro- Your main power source for lighting. Contains t-cam lock cable Ground (green-1), Neutral (white-2), Hots (blue,red,black-3)
Pipes used for light mounting: normal lengthwise, and t pipes.
There is also horizontal pipe attached to what we call “meat racks” with stage pin connectors to mount lights on as shown here:
On the meat rack you’ll find leko and sources 4 bars.
There are other racks that are on wheels for of par cans the I gelled the other day for Queensrych and the rack are color coded for the way they’re packed and gelled so they are sent and rigged properly.
Album of the week:
Jimi Hendrix- Axis Bold as Love
Movie of the week:
Fantastic 4- Rise of the Silver Surfer (go see it this week!)
Cool Product of the week:
Cordless Logitech keyboard and mouse. I’m looking to get a Hog 1000 soon for myself personally. I had to pick up the package to help navigate through programming faster of course!
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