> > >The nameplates on those old transformers read 25Hz!
> >
> > Then I guess you had no problems with switching transients
> getting out and
> > upsetting other people :)
>
> Yeah, these things were pretty big iron.
>
> And we didn't have much in the way of transients: dimming was
> done with huge
> rheostats, no 'dimmer hash'!

        Hehe, I worked at one theatre where they used AMX-192 for everything but
still had those rheostat dimmers. THEY WERE HUGE!! We called them
"Frankenstein Dimmers". The dimmers were about half a meter tall and the
handles you used to dim were above a meter long. Obviously they weren't
hooked up, but the thought of running a show with those things was just
funny to me! I can't imagine how HOT it would have gotten in that small
lighting booth with those dimmers being used. TTYL

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