ingenuity & pandemonium #001
House Lights.
You have to love them…. They set the mood, make people complain because they can’t read their bulletins & are a bear to control.
In our current Little Rock building, we have house lights that are controlled by dimmers.
Not fancy dimmer packs sent to our lighting console.
No, that would be too easy.
Ours are controlled on wall dimmers.
All 10 of them.
So, how do we slowly dim our lights for worship, raise them for meet & greet, and lower them for videos?
Simple… We rig up an amazing contraption that connects them all together with small 2″ pieces of wood, glue and plastic channel to clip on the dimmers themselves.
Archaic? Yes.
Effective? Yes.
inWorship
Awesome!
I wish we afford wood like that
Darrell
Awe I see you like my ingenuity, necessity is the mother of invention . When were done in this building I’m planning to implement this awesome rig as either a set of skis (snow or water),a key chain, or a way to duplicate drawings or oh our net set center piece I’m sure I can use some spandex with it done worry, how about we auction it off for missions or the uniform emblem for the betties baseball team
dave
That is a sweet rig Neil!
I ran sound for a Christmas show at a little church that had a dozen or so rotating dimmer switches for their lights. Really frustrating.
Save that wooden rig when you upgrade, and frame it for your wall.
dave
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Matt Rateliff
My idea re-invented. Originally we used sticks with wood that was only a little thicker than a toothpick, and rubberbands. I had imagined something a little more advanced, but that’s what came out of it.
Kerry
neil, we used to have 5 sets of midgets that did this all in unison. it was a bummer when they opened this really cool post modern midget church down the road and made them really hard to come by. darrell’s stick device was the next best thing.
sorry my blog is a little out of date.
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