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Question 1

List 5 expendables

Answer 1

Clothes pins 
Gaffer tape 
Cube taps
Trick line
Black wrap

(zip cord, households, paper tape, electric tape, sash, squeezers, gels, add-a-taps, spring clips, ground lifters)

Question 2

List 5 open face lights

Answer 2

(According to the Box book:)

Blonde, redhead, nook, broad, mighty

(Mickey)

Question 3

Name the accessories for a fresnel

Answer 3

Barn doors
Scrims
Snoot
Gel frame

(focal spot, shutters)

Question 4

What is the weight of 100ft 4/0 piece?

Answer 4

96 lbs (before the camlocks)

(2/0 - 68
5-wire - 85
100 amp - 72
Soco - 75)

Question 5

What is a dichroic bulb?

Answer 5

Bulb with a coating on either the glass filter or the reflector that colors the light by selectively passing wavelengths

(Dichroic filters available in different colors including color correction)

Question 6

What is a FAY?

Answer 6

PAR 36

650w

5000k

Medium flood/dichroic lens

Goes into a mini-brute

Question 7

Define the Halogine cycle

Answer 7

The cycle by which halogen in a bulb returns tungsten deposits to the filament preventing blackening on the inner wall of the bulb

Question 8

What is the difference between Kino flo and regular fluorescents?

Answer 8

Kinos operate at 30,000 Hz

Kinos - custom electronics and chemical makeup results in:

• optimized for brightness
• true color rendition (CRI 95)
• reliability under harsh conditions
• flicker free
• quiet

Question 9

What is the proper idle time for a genny?

Answer 9

According to the Catepillar recommendation:
When the water temp = 80 degrees or higher
(-Pat Fontana)

(Til Temperature gauge registers a change roughly 5-10 min
Depends on weather, genny type, etc
-Christ)

Question 10

What is a ghost leg?

Answer 10

Ghost leg/load: A load not used to light the set and placed on a circuit to balance the various legs of power.
Usually a mini-brute or maxi-brute
(Or to bring the load on a resistance-type dimmer up to it’s minimum operating wattage)

Question 11

What is a pin splitter? Why do we use it?

Answer 11

Tool to bend apart smooshed pins on a bates connector.

We use them to make sure pins are wide enough to make solid contact at the connection

Question 12

What adapter to use if only bus bars on a genny?

Answer 12

Lug connectors

someone said “Anderson Clamp”

Question 13

What is the difference between real and paper amps?

Answer 13

Paper amps: wattage/100
Real amps: wattage/volts(usually 120)

Paper amps = 1.2 times the real amperage
Real current = 83% of the paper value

A quick calculating method that plays it safe

Question 14

What is line loss?

Answer 14

Voltage lost from source to load because resistance turns some power into heat

Question 15

Who uses shiny board on set?

Answer 15

In Local 52 jurisdiction the ELECTRIC DEPT is in charge of all shiny board use

Question 16

What does an inverter do?

Answer 16

Electronic device that converts DC power into AC

Question 17

What does a rectifier do?

Answer 17

A electrical unit that converts AC to DC

Question 18

Name all bulbs for HMIs

Answer 18

HMI wattages:
125
200
400
575
800
1.2k
1.8k
2.5k
4k
6k
9k
12k (single and double ended)
18k (single and double ended)

Question 19

Name 2 different types of step down in distort

Answer 19

transformer

CD80 (like a 10k dimmer)