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Author Topic: Hugly Rack Wiring Jean-Michel Grin Expert Film Handler Posts: 222 From: Geneva & Lausanne, Switzerland Registered: Jul 2002 posted 01-10-2003 09:57 AM                        Hi all, I would present to you some examples of sound an automation rack where the technician wo do the job, had a very BAD business to work like this. (Sorry for my english) Let me show you: [ 01-10-2003, 01:40 PM: Message edited by: Jean-Michel Grin ]  |  IP: Logged Jean-Michel Grin Expert Film Handler Posts: 222 From: Geneva & Lausanne, Switzerland Registered: Jul 2002 posted 01-10-2003 01:45 PM                        Brad, I thank you so munch to placed my pics on this forum. I don't understand what I did wrong before. Appologyses for the bad quality of theses pics, but I don't have yet a digital camera. Ok, Some precisions about these pics: -The first pic. represent the automation barrier wiring mounted at the back of the sound rack. maybe you can see a relay just hanging on is wires. All the installatin in this 3-plex is made the same manner! -The second pic from the same Sound Rack show you the mains live power conections. For the installer it was munch cheap to fix a barrier strip like this, whithout any safety against accidental contact by the hand. At the right hand of the picture, are the barrier strip for the speaker connections. -The thrird picthure represent these barcode that we use for the automation. Its better for the projectionist to stay close to the projectors, beceause this automation don't work anytime -The fourth picture show the backdoor (non-opérator side) of a Super Highligt console. This horrible mess are the electronic soft start for the projector motor, and the relay are for the electric douser open/close control and start-stop control for the automation. The problem is that no wire are protected: This mean if you close the door of the console, the cables could be damaged. The day on last december when my boss bought this multiplex the projectionist called me to repair the command. The projector wouln'd running. For luck only a relay was defective. -The Last picture show a Backside of a CP 65. I hope to never have to deal with this stuff. all connections are (do you see what a mean) Can you immagine that a technician has made a bill of more than $ 10.000 to install 3 equiped booth like this ? Steeve what do you mean about a job like this. A tech working like that should be fired up Thanks for your attention and wish me luck for the future ! [ 01-12-2003, 03:18 AM: Message edited by: Jean-Michel Grin ]  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 01-10-2003 01:48 PM                        Jean-Michel, did your picture appear on the confirmation screen after you uploaded them? Did you then COPY AND PASTE the text that looked like: [ img]http://www.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/showpic.cgi?dir=1102&file=yourpic.jpg[ img] ?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-11-2003 08:45 AM                      |  IP: Logged Demetris Thoupis Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1240 From: Aradippou, Larnaca, Cyprus Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-11-2003 09:10 AM                     OH MY GOD Kill the bloody technician. What is that careless wiring. BUT. The audience does not care about the presentation of the booth rack but cares of what comes out to the auditorium. Ok he did not pay much attention to tidying the rack but what is the auditorium sound outcome? If the allingment was made like the racks then it would be sure as hell. CIAO  |  IP: Logged Mike Baer Film Handler Posts: 51 From: Winterthur, Switzerland Registered: Dec 2002 posted 01-11-2003 10:57 AM                        Hello Demetris i knew this Technician from my former Cinema.And i can tell you,the sound isn´t THAT great who comes out of the speakers. Greetings from Switzerland Mike  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 01-11-2003 12:24 PM                     job security for the technician...  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-11-2003 04:19 PM                     I'll never forget all the cigarette butts I saw inside of the one rack at the Edwards 21 in Boise! Courtesy of none other than MTS.....Alot of folk are sure glad they're gone! Mark  |  IP: Logged Jamie Sanson Film Handler Posts: 33 From: Port Macquarie,NSW, Australia Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-12-2003 05:12 AM                     Hi Jean-Michel It is a mess and totally unsafe. How did it past inspection? But the problem would be how to find what goes in and what comes out.  |  IP: Logged Jean-Michel Grin Expert Film Handler Posts: 222 From: Geneva & Lausanne, Switzerland Registered: Jul 2002 posted 01-12-2003 09:29 AM                        Hello Jamie, The only safety, I mean should be the brain of the projectionist to keep with is hand off this horrible mess. For the history, the first technician that comming to install these three booth made a lot of mistakes including the automation concept. Nothing is easy serviceable and everything was made to be the cheapest installation. I.E. the 6 projectors, in changeover operation was Monee mechanism, and the picture was too undsteady and out of focus, the boss from this multiplex as exiged from the installer to replace in the biggest auditorium theses by a simplex projectors. The second tech who came from the far end of the country (more than 300 kilometers) stayed more than two complete weeks in this theater to fix all the bugs. An duryg six months comming two times per week to fixe all bugs. At final a cheap equipement could cost a fortune The only thing that I like in this multiplex is the masking of the screen. They work pretty well. Bye,  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-12-2003 09:59 AM                     Maybe these "Hugly" racks just need a hug? Steve  |  IP: Logged

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