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Topic: How often does your power go out?
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Manny Knowles
"What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???"
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Posts: 4247
From: Bloomington, IN, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-18-2002 04:57 AM
Power failures are a way of life here. In fact, my first movie is set during a blackout and is called "Powercut."All of our theatres have generators that kick in 11 seconds after the power fails. The reason for the delay is that if it kicks in too soon, it makes the projectors act wierd. They try to keep going as though nothing has happened, but they make a bad noise in the transition. We kept spacing out the delay to find the minimum amount of time necessary to force the equipment to simply shut completely off. When the power kicks in after the 11-sec delay, the projectionist has to restart the shows and cue the automation down to where it ought to be in the program sequence. The generator disengages when the main power returns to normal. AFAIK this happens without causing the machines to act up.
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Miguel Angel Martorell
Film Handler
Posts: 81
From: Valencia, Spain
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 06-20-2002 08:02 PM
As far I can remember, in 3 years 4 or 5 times in different theatres but I will always remember the last (at the moment)when I was showing The Score in one screen theathre now closed (rest in peace)with 700 hundred seats, no emergency generator and the house was almost full. My prays were heard ´cause after eight long minutes of runs and stops there wasn´t any other shutdown.By the way, for people who works with platter systems in multiscreens theatres. Do you contemplate the chance of rewind the film or just say to the manager "...forget about it".
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