Last few weeks..
As usual for me, I'm a little late in posting but better late than never? lol..
Okay, so the Event with the Twins went well. Or as good as it could of gone, anyway :P Place was PACKED and I couldn't even get in to see the game =( From a technical standpoint everything worked however one of the lamps exploded at a very bad time and scared the shit out of probably two hundred people who were somewhat close to it when it went. I haveta say, it was quite the event when it blew. The whole fixture head is GONE. It needs to be completely rebuilt. On top of that I was also having a phantom power problem, as it would seem. My fluke current clamp was saying that the lights were drawing 20.3 amps yet somehow I was blowing 30 amp breakers (yes, the measurement was taken AT the breaker) so any loss in the cable was accounted for. The only thing I can think of is that maybe some sort of DC current is being injected back into the line and I'm unable to measure it. *shurgs* I'm going to pick up a AC/DC current clamp sometime soon and verify that... If that's not the case, I dunno what the hells going on. all I know is that my 10gage cable was pretty darn warm/hot and with 20 amps running though it. Well, that shouldn't happen. There seems to be more to the story, I just haven't figured it out quite yet. Anyway, a short video of the lights at the field is below.. -They would of been brighter but I had to dim them to 75% power to stop blowing breakers. This Thursday I leave for Louisiana for yet another Hockey event. This time we're doing full graphics on the ice, beam systems, fog, and our large 40 foot flame systems. Hopefully tomorrow I will of found a way to make everything wireless so it all talk to each other without having to drape hundreds of cables on the ice for the player intro. I'm sure I'll have video of that to post by the time I get get back ;-)
Lets see.. What else. Oh, The diet has been going okay as well. Still losing, so that's good! A couple times last week I got lax and started to do things I wouldn't normally do, which affected my numbers just a tad. Its pretty minor. A little bit of extra exercise or weights and I should be able to nip that just fine ;-) Actually, in looking at the chart there seems to be some kind of trend with slow periods that I haven't quite figured out yet. Either way, as long as I keep losing, I'm not gonna complain too much. I just hope I meet my goal for MFF! I haven't even lost *that* much yet and I already feel a TON better. Even my mood and outlook on stuff lately, so hopefully that will only get better!
Anywho, That's all for now. I need to get caught up on some emails and other things I havent taken care of yet due to busyness and running around with my head cut off like a chicken :P And then.... SLEEP... I'm so tired :P
Okay, so the Event with the Twins went well. Or as good as it could of gone, anyway :P Place was PACKED and I couldn't even get in to see the game =( From a technical standpoint everything worked however one of the lamps exploded at a very bad time and scared the shit out of probably two hundred people who were somewhat close to it when it went. I haveta say, it was quite the event when it blew. The whole fixture head is GONE. It needs to be completely rebuilt. On top of that I was also having a phantom power problem, as it would seem. My fluke current clamp was saying that the lights were drawing 20.3 amps yet somehow I was blowing 30 amp breakers (yes, the measurement was taken AT the breaker) so any loss in the cable was accounted for. The only thing I can think of is that maybe some sort of DC current is being injected back into the line and I'm unable to measure it. *shurgs* I'm going to pick up a AC/DC current clamp sometime soon and verify that... If that's not the case, I dunno what the hells going on. all I know is that my 10gage cable was pretty darn warm/hot and with 20 amps running though it. Well, that shouldn't happen. There seems to be more to the story, I just haven't figured it out quite yet. Anyway, a short video of the lights at the field is below.. -They would of been brighter but I had to dim them to 75% power to stop blowing breakers. This Thursday I leave for Louisiana for yet another Hockey event. This time we're doing full graphics on the ice, beam systems, fog, and our large 40 foot flame systems. Hopefully tomorrow I will of found a way to make everything wireless so it all talk to each other without having to drape hundreds of cables on the ice for the player intro. I'm sure I'll have video of that to post by the time I get get back ;-)
Lets see.. What else. Oh, The diet has been going okay as well. Still losing, so that's good! A couple times last week I got lax and started to do things I wouldn't normally do, which affected my numbers just a tad. Its pretty minor. A little bit of extra exercise or weights and I should be able to nip that just fine ;-) Actually, in looking at the chart there seems to be some kind of trend with slow periods that I haven't quite figured out yet. Either way, as long as I keep losing, I'm not gonna complain too much. I just hope I meet my goal for MFF! I haven't even lost *that* much yet and I already feel a TON better. Even my mood and outlook on stuff lately, so hopefully that will only get better!
Anywho, That's all for now. I need to get caught up on some emails and other things I havent taken care of yet due to busyness and running around with my head cut off like a chicken :P And then.... SLEEP... I'm so tired :P
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