OOC # 39
In reply to Admiral Hack (msg # 135):
Oh, we're not calling for Flank Speed yet. That happens about the middle of next week, when lighting focus is done, the stage is painted (started on that, at least, and what I've done so far DOES look good), they no longer have to keep illusions out in the middle of the stage so the maintenance guys can access them, and we've started rehearsals. That's when the crunch REALLY hits.
But, yeah...the scenario you described does have a very familiar feel...
On the good news front--the park electricians are genuises (well, a couple of them are, at least!) They came and took a look at what we had for the LED neon and DMX controller, we talked with them about what we needed, they took a few things back out to the shop (working kind of under the table, because their manager had them assigned to another project but they know we're under the gun...) Rather than rigging some kind of adapter from the output from the DMX controller to the neon, they took some leftover cables (the park was going to do something similar with our wooden roller coaster, several years ago...and then, after they bought all the materials for it, realized their plan wasn't going to work and couldn't get their money back, so this stuff has been sitting in storage for most of a decade, now) and wired THOSE to the controller, so now the controller's output has cable ends on it that we can actually do something with, wired up the other end to the connector on the LED neon, and brought it all back to the stage. Now, instead of having to mount the controller somewhere within a few feet of where the neon run starts (at the top of the proscenium!), we can mount it basically anywhere that's convenient, and there are enough cables to get us anywhere we need to be from there (they brought, like, seven of those cables, which are 2m each, so three cables would reach from the floor to the very top of the proscenium...and then they said, "If you need more, just let us know, we've got a ton of 'em that we can use for anything else...")
THAT project just became so much less of a headache!