The Christmas Quiz 2025 is now available for download at:
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As usual it follows a theme - and as usual I'm not going to tell you
what the theme is.
Liz Tuddenham wrote:
The Christmas Quiz 2025 is now available for download at:
http://www.poppyrecords.co.uk/quiz.htm
As usual it follows a theme - and as usual I'm not going to tell you
what the theme is.
Coming from Keynsham, I got no.6 right away! :)
Being a Seekers fan (so knowing the alternative title of one of their
songs), I got 7 (and thus 8) fairly quickly!
On 24/12/2025 12:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:Unofficial! A friend and I always refer to "I'll never find ..." as "The
Being a Seekers fan (so knowing the alternative title of one of their
songs), I got 7 (and thus 8) fairly quickly!
I've got 7 and 8, but I'm trying to think which Seekers song has that
word (answer to Q7) as an alternative title...
On 2025/12/24 16:44:41, NY wrote:
On 24/12/2025 12:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
Being a Seekers fan (so knowing the alternative title of one of their
songs), I got 7 (and thus 8) fairly quickly!
I've got 7 and 8, but I'm trying to think which Seekers song has that
word (answer to Q7) as an alternative title...
Unofficial! A friend and I always refer to "I'll never find ..." as "The lonely ram song". Sorry.
"I'll Never Find Another Female Ovine",
On 24/12/2025 17:03, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
On 2025/12/24 16:44:41, NY wrote:
On 24/12/2025 12:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
Being a Seekers fan (so knowing the alternative title of one of their
songs), I got 7 (and thus 8) fairly quickly!
I've got 7 and 8, but I'm trying to think which Seekers song has that
word (answer to Q7) as an alternative title...
Unofficial! A friend and I always refer to "I'll never find ..." as "The
lonely ram song". Sorry.
Duh! Of course ;-) I like it.
It's almost a mondegreen rather than just a pun, in the same vein as
Neil Diamond's "Reverend Blue Jeans" (about a very trendy vicar?)
instead of "Forever in Blue Jeans", or Belinda Carlisle's "Blue Heaven
is a place on earth" (which even after multiple listenings is what I
*swear* she sings) instead of "Ooh heaven is a place on earth".
Favourite Seekers song? "Walk With Me" or "Time And Again", probably.
Though "I'll Never Find Another Female Ovine", "A World of Our Own",
"The Carnival is Over", "Morningtown Ride" and "All I Can Remember" are good. I'm sure a lot of males of a Certain Age could happily have spent
a lifetime "Sheltered from the world behind the ivy-covered wall" with Judith ;-) She personified the adage that the most attractive women are those who don't even know it and so don't boast about it incessantly.
Oh, I love mondegreens. One of my favourites is ABBA "when I called you
last night from Tesco" (recorded long before fobile moans were a
thing!). I think the first one I remember was about Good King Wences,
who last looked out on the feast of Stephen ...
On 25/12/2025 11:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
Oh, I love mondegreens. One of my favourites is ABBA "when I called you
last night from Tesco" (recorded long before fobile moans were a
thing!). I think the first one I remember was about Good King Wences,
who last looked out on the feast of Stephen ...
The ABBA thing is one of those cases where the real word is far more
mundane and underwhelming than anything you might invent - "When I
called you last night from... Glasgow (WTF!)". You'd think they might
have chosen a *slightly* more exciting place than Glasgow. Mind you, it
was through that song that I leaned that Supertrouper was not a
reference to the performers but a make of "follow-spot" stage light, so
no experience is ever wasted.
Yes, I thought it was Good King Wences who last looked out. The hymn
that always baffled me was "There is a green hill far away, without a
city wall" because I (and everyone else that I knew) thought "why
doesn't it have a city wall". The "lacking" meaning of "without" is
*far* more well-known than the "outside" meaning. How common was the
latter meaning when the hymn was written, I wonder? Would it have
provoked WTF cognitive dissonance even in those days? "Outside" would
still have scanned in the hymn and would have been far more
understandable. I know that Scottish English still uses "without" (or
even "outwith") in the "outside" sense, but then they use "messages" to
mean "errands, shopping" as opposed to "written communications".
Then we get onto words which have changed their spelling. In the 1940s
and 50s, my Dad remembers a sign "All tickets to be shewn" on the local buses, and even in those days "shew" was regarded as a very archaic and risible spelling of "show", to the extent that almost everyone, adults
as well as schoolchildren, offered to "shoo" their tickets to the
conductor. It's like "alarum" (alarm) and "connexion" (connection), and "luncheon" pronounced with three exaggerated syllables "lun-shee-on"
like my great aunt did - but then she had had "electrocution lessons" to lose her West Riding accent and talk like a duchess... which never
fooled anyone.
Mondegreens: "there is a bathroom on the right" (Bad Moon Rising),
"excuse me while I kiss this guy" (Purple Haze) and "go and get stuffed"
(The Going Gets Tough). The last is another of those "I'm *sure* that's
what he really *does* sing" mondegreens where even if you listen
carefully the mondegreen "wins" over the real lyric.
The ultimate "triggers my pedantry/tautology detector" lyric is in "Moonlight Shadow" - "4 AM in the morning". Is that as opposed to "4 AM
in the afternoon" ;-) Why not "4 o'clock in the morning" which would
also scan and would avoid tautology.
On 2025/12/24 22:29:7, NY wrote:
On 24/12/2025 17:03, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
On 2025/12/24 16:44:41, NY wrote:
On 24/12/2025 12:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
Being a Seekers fan (so knowing the alternative title of one of their >>>>> songs), I got 7 (and thus 8) fairly quickly!
I've got 7 and 8, but I'm trying to think which Seekers song has that
word (answer to Q7) as an alternative title...
Unofficial! A friend and I always refer to "I'll never find ..." as "The >>> lonely ram song". Sorry.
Duh! Of course ;-) I like it.
It's almost a mondegreen rather than just a pun, in the same vein as
Neil Diamond's "Reverend Blue Jeans" (about a very trendy vicar?)
instead of "Forever in Blue Jeans", or Belinda Carlisle's "Blue Heaven
is a place on earth" (which even after multiple listenings is what I
*swear* she sings) instead of "Ooh heaven is a place on earth".
Oh, I love mondegreens. One of my favourites is ABBA "when I called you
last night from Tesco" (recorded long before fobile moans were a
thing!).
On 25/12/2025 11:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
Oh, I love mondegreens. One of my favourites is ABBA "when I called you
last night from Tesco" (recorded long before fobile moans were a
thing!).
The large Tesco near us had a couple of payphones in that era - useful
given my Mum's writing...-a saved a few moans that way...
On 2025/12/24 22:29:7, NY wrote:
On 24/12/2025 17:03, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
On 2025/12/24 16:44:41, NY wrote:
On 24/12/2025 12:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
Being a Seekers fan (so knowing the alternative title of one of their >>>>> songs), I got 7 (and thus 8) fairly quickly!
I've got 7 and 8, but I'm trying to think which Seekers song has that
word (answer to Q7) as an alternative title...
Unofficial! A friend and I always refer to "I'll never find ..." as "The >>> lonely ram song". Sorry.
Duh! Of course ;-) I like it.
It's almost a mondegreen rather than just a pun, in the same vein as
Neil Diamond's "Reverend Blue Jeans" (about a very trendy vicar?)
instead of "Forever in Blue Jeans", or Belinda Carlisle's "Blue Heaven
is a place on earth" (which even after multiple listenings is what I
*swear* she sings) instead of "Ooh heaven is a place on earth".
Oh, I love mondegreens. One of my favourites is ABBA "when I called you
last night from Tesco" (recorded long before fobile moans were a
thing!). I think the first one I remember was about Good King Wences,
who last looked out on the feast of Stephen ...
Favourite Seekers song? "Walk With Me" or "Time And Again", probably.
Though "I'll Never Find Another Female Ovine", "A World of Our Own",
"The Carnival is Over", "Morningtown Ride" and "All I Can Remember" are
good. I'm sure a lot of males of a Certain Age could happily have spent
a lifetime "Sheltered from the world behind the ivy-covered wall" with
Judith ;-) She personified the adage that the most attractive women are
those who don't even know it and so don't boast about it incessantly.
They closed their (final!) farewell tour with "Carnival" - not a dry eye
in the house. (I was at the Sage in Sunderland.) Morningtown and the Ram
song for me - or, for just Judith, either of her "Danny Boy"s, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mpJYIACehQ - I can die happy. Not only lovely, but she gets that high "here" without straining or belting,
unlike most singers. Or Eriskay, or This is My Song, or ... there are so many. (Email me if you wish, so we don't bore the other UTBers!)
Danny Boy is about two pipers, both called Glen, on a hillside ...
On 25/12/2025 11:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
On 2025/12/24 22:29:7, NY wrote:
On 24/12/2025 17:03, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
On 2025/12/24 16:44:41, NY wrote:
On 24/12/2025 12:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
Being a Seekers fan (so knowing the alternative title of
one of their songs), I got 7 (and thus 8) fairly quickly!
I've got 7 and 8, but I'm trying to think which Seekers song
has that word (answer to Q7) as an alternative title...
Unofficial! A friend and I always refer to "I'll never find
..." as "The lonely ram song". Sorry.
Duh! Of course ;-) I like it.
It's almost a mondegreen rather than just a pun, in the same vein
as Neil Diamond's "Reverend Blue Jeans" (about a very trendy
vicar?) instead of "Forever in Blue Jeans", or Belinda Carlisle's
"Blue Heaven is a place on earth" (which even after multiple
listenings is what I *swear* she sings) instead of "Ooh heaven is
a place on earth".
Oh, I love mondegreens. One of my favourites is ABBA "when I called
you last night from Tesco" (recorded long before fobile moans were a thing!).
The large Tesco near us had a couple of payphones in that era -
useful given my Mum's writing... saved a few moans that way...
James
On 2025/12/25 12:4:4, NY wrote:[...]
was through that song that I leaned that Supertrouper was not a
reference to the performers but a make of "follow-spot" stage light, so
no experience is ever wasted.
Indeed! (It is actually illustrated in the video - and in the lyrics, actually: "the Supertrouper beams are gonna find me".) Yes, a song to a spotlight operator! Why not, of course.
J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
On 2025/12/25 12:4:4, NY wrote:[...]
was through that song that I leaned that Supertrouper was not a
reference to the performers but a make of "follow-spot" stage light, so
no experience is ever wasted.
Indeed! (It is actually illustrated in the video - and in the lyrics,
actually: "the Supertrouper beams are gonna find me".) Yes, a song to a
spotlight operator! Why not, of course.
They were called 'limes' when I operated them in the theatre. I suspect Supertrouper is an American term used in the film industry.
On 26/12/2025 10:36, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Trouper_(spotlight) says that the
Super Trouper is an American make of spotlight (originally arc, later
xenon discharge).
On 25/12/2025 17:40, James Heaton wrote:
On 25/12/2025 11:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
Oh, I love mondegreens. One of my favourites is ABBA "when I called you
last night from Tesco" (recorded long before fobile moans were a
thing!).
The large Tesco near us had a couple of payphones in that era - useful
given my Mum's writing...-a saved a few moans that way...
The Morrisons in the town where I used to live had no Vodafone reception inside: you had to go about 10 yards outside the entrance to get a
signal. That was annoying if I needed to check with my wife "they don't
have any X; would you like me the get Y instead?".
On 26/12/2025 10:36, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
They were called 'limes' when I operated them in the theatre. I suspect
Supertrouper is an American term used in the film industry.
Grandpa recounts how his father (who died long before I was born) worked
as a "lime-light man" in a local theatre in his spare time (he was
foreman of an iron foundry as his day job).
In the early days it *was* lime-light - a hydrogen/oxygen flame playing
onto "lime" (calcium oxide) which made it give off intense white light.
Only later did the theatre get arc lights for the "limes". There was no automatic feed of the carbon rods so it was someone's job to keep
screwing one rod towards the other as they were "used up" in the arc process.
The list of lighting cues on a typical play was immense. There was a
trend (fad?) at the time (I'm guessing 1910s-1930s) to have a
narrow-beam spotlight trained on various items as they were referred to
in the dialogue - "My pipe is over there on the mantelpiece", so on cue
a lime lit up the pipe. How they aimed the limelight beam at each item
in turn, without the beam being visible to the audience until the cue,
is a mystery ;-)
On 2025/12/26 15:6:7, NY wrote:
On 26/12/2025 10:36, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
[]
They were called 'limes' when I operated them in the theatre. I suspect >> Supertrouper is an American term used in the film industry.
I had assumed they were European (ABBA being Swedish), though your later researches show otherwise; I'd come across the term "Klieg lights"
somewhere. But looks like they're both just trade names.
[]
Grandpa recounts how his father (who died long before I was born) worked
as a "lime-light man" in a local theatre in his spare time (he was
foreman of an iron foundry as his day job).
In the early days it *was* lime-light - a hydrogen/oxygen flame playing onto "lime" (calcium oxide) which made it give off intense white light.
I remember it being shown to us in school (chemistry I think). I think
it may have had a greenish tinge, but I could be wrong about that.
Only later did the theatre get arc lights for the "limes". There was no automatic feed of the carbon rods so it was someone's job to keep
screwing one rod towards the other as they were "used up" in the arc process.
I had a friend at work who had worked as a cinema projectionist; I had
always assumed that it was the arc itself which was the source of the
light, but according to my friend, it was the carbons themselves that
glowed with the _heat_ from the arc (and thus had to be constantly
adjusted).
The list of lighting cues on a typical play was immense. There was a
trend (fad?) at the time (I'm guessing 1910s-1930s) to have a
narrow-beam spotlight trained on various items as they were referred to
in the dialogue - "My pipe is over there on the mantelpiece", so on cue
a lime lit up the pipe. How they aimed the limelight beam at each item
in turn, without the beam being visible to the audience until the cue,
is a mystery ;-)
Shutters, I presume, with detailed rehearsal to get the aims right. I remember my school had a big light - at the back of the auditorium -
that had steel shutters to control it (rather than turning it on and
off, which presumably would have shortened the life of the bulb - it was
a kilowatt [1970s, so just tungsten]; I felt for the operator, having to
work next to it!).
I had a friend at work who had worked as a cinema projectionist; I had
always assumed that it was the arc itself which was the source of the
light, but according to my friend, it was the carbons themselves that
glowed with the _heat_ from the arc (and thus had to be constantly
adjusted).
J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
On 2025/12/26 15:6:7, NY wrote:
On 26/12/2025 10:36, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
carbon. The outsides of the carbons were covered in copper to improve
the conductivity, this melted away as it neared the arc and dropped on
the floor of the lamphouse.
The trick for precise alignment of carbon arc limelights was a diagram
of the stage drawn on the ceiling of the projection booth. A small hole
in the top of the lamphouse cast a spot of light on the diagram, so the operator could aim the dowsed light where it was next required. When
the dowser was opened, it would be exactly on the actor (assuming the
actor was standing in the right place).
This didn't work with filament lamps, so either the operator had to
'crack open' the dowser to get just enough light to see where the beam
was pointing or be very quick indeed to correct any errors. Both of
these expedients looked a bit amateurish - but with amateur productions:
On 25/12/2025 18:55, NY wrote:
The Morrisons in the town where I used to live had no Vodafone
reception inside: you had to go about 10 yards outside the entrance to
get a signal. That was annoying if I needed to check with my wife
"they don't have any X; would you like me the get Y instead?".
You could use WhatsApp via the in-store Wi-Fi (perhaps).
Liz Tuddenham <liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote:
J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
On 2025/12/26 15:6:7, NY wrote:
On 26/12/2025 10:36, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
carbon. The outsides of the carbons were covered in copper to improve
the conductivity, this melted away as it neared the arc and dropped on
the floor of the lamphouse.
I have a pack of electrodes for my resistance soldering unit that are >manufactured like that,
must have a go at making an arc lamp with a couple.
GH
James Heaton wrote:
On 25/12/2025 11:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
On 2025/12/24 22:29:7, NY wrote:
On 24/12/2025 17:03, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
On 2025/12/24 16:44:41, NY wrote:
On 24/12/2025 12:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
Being a Seekers fan (so knowing the alternative title of
one of their songs), I got 7 (and thus 8) fairly quickly!
I've got 7 and 8, but I'm trying to think which Seekers song
has that word (answer to Q7) as an alternative title...
Unofficial! A friend and I always refer to "I'll never find
..." as "The lonely ram song". Sorry.
Duh! Of course ;-) I like it.
It's almost a mondegreen rather than just a pun, in the same
vein as Neil Diamond's "Reverend Blue Jeans" (about a very
trendy vicar?) instead of "Forever in Blue Jeans", or Belinda Carlisle's "Blue Heaven is a place on earth" (which even after
multiple listenings is what I swear she sings) instead of "Ooh
heaven is a place on earth".
Oh, I love mondegreens. One of my favourites is ABBA "when I
called you last night from Tesco" (recorded long before fobile
moans were a thing!).
The large Tesco near us had a couple of payphones in that era -
useful given my Mum's writing... saved a few moans that way...
James
That reminded me of the Morecambe and Wise sketch!
On 26/12/2025 19:19, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
The trick for precise alignment of carbon arc limelights was a diagram
of the stage drawn on the ceiling of the projection booth. A small hole
in the top of the lamphouse cast a spot of light on the diagram, so the operator could aim the dowsed light where it was next required. When
the dowser was opened, it would be exactly on the actor (assuming the
actor was standing in the right place).
I would have thought it would need to be on the front wall of the
projection booth so it registered both side-to-side and up/down movement
of the lamp and hence the real beam. Wouldn't a tell-tale beam projected
at 90 degrees to the real one (so it's on the ceiling) only have
registered the up/down but not the side to side rotation about a
vertical axis?
This didn't work with filament lamps, so either the operator had to
'crack open' the dowser to get just enough light to see where the beam
was pointing or be very quick indeed to correct any errors. Both of
these expedients looked a bit amateurish - but with amateur productions:
Why didn't it work with filament lamps? Was it because the light source
was larger and less of a point source?
Surely arc, xenon and filament
spot lights all have parabolic mirrors and lenses which focus the light
into a narrow beam, and a similar system for getting a narrow "finder"
beam to project onto the ceiling diagram. I feel I may be about to learn something about the differences between arc and filament lights ... ;-)
It must have been a major job keeping up with the script, preparing the follow-spot for the next cue by "invisible" means in the hope that when
you opened the dowser, the correct object would be highlighted.
Ashley Booth wrote:
James Heaton wrote:
On 25/12/2025 11:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
On 2025/12/24 22:29:7, NY wrote:
On 24/12/2025 17:03, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
On 2025/12/24 16:44:41, NY wrote:
On 24/12/2025 12:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
Being a Seekers fan (so knowing the alternative title of
one of their songs), I got 7 (and thus 8) fairly quickly!
I've got 7 and 8, but I'm trying to think which Seekers song
has that word (answer to Q7) as an alternative title...
Unofficial! A friend and I always refer to "I'll never find
..." as "The lonely ram song". Sorry.
Duh! Of course ;-) I like it.
It's almost a mondegreen rather than just a pun, in the same
vein as Neil Diamond's "Reverend Blue Jeans" (about a very
trendy vicar?) instead of "Forever in Blue Jeans", or Belinda
Carlisle's "Blue Heaven is a place on earth" (which even after
multiple listenings is what I swear she sings) instead of "Ooh
heaven is a place on earth".
Oh, I love mondegreens. One of my favourites is ABBA "when I
called you last night from Tesco" (recorded long before fobile
moans were a thing!).
The large Tesco near us had a couple of payphones in that era -
useful given my Mum's writing... saved a few moans that way...
James
That reminded me of the Morecambe and Wise sketch!
Sorry, it was the Two
Ronnies.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6jWCVO38iA
NY <me@privacy.net> wrote:
Liz Tuddenham <liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote:
J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
On 2025/12/26 15:6:7, NY wrote:
On 26/12/2025 10:36, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
carbon. The outsides of the carbons were covered in copper to improve
the conductivity, this melted away as it neared the arc and dropped on
the floor of the lamphouse.
I have a pack of electrodes for my resistance soldering unit that are manufactured like that,
must have a go at making an arc lamp with a couple.
On 2025/12/27 9:29:57, Ashley Booth wrote:
Sorry, it was the TwoThanks - loved hearing it again!
Ronnies.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6jWCVO38iA
Anyone know what year it was? (I've added uk.telecom as someone there
may be able to say - or at least put a range on it - from the telephones/booths/etc. shown.)
I learned the skills by being apprenticed to the stage electrician's
teenage daughter who, it turned out, had been working twin spots like
this ever since she could reach the handles!
On 27/12/2025 11:02, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
I learned the skills by being apprenticed to the stage electrician's teenage daughter who, it turned out, had been working twin spots like
this ever since she could reach the handles!
That sounds like the start of a Two Ronnies sketch laden with double-entendres :-)
I did a bit of work with stage lighting for school plays and operas when
I was in the fifth and sixth forms. The atmosphere was great: mine was
an all-boys school and it teamed up with the all-girls school across the
road (*), so there was a certain amount of ribaldry whenever people
thought they could get away with it.
Our school hall had old wire-wound slide-rheostats with huge Bakelite
knobs for the stage light dimmers, and am enormous rotary wire-wound one
with a little wheel for the house lights.
We were warned that with all the house lights on, with a 200 W bulb in
each lamp (and there were a *lot* of them) we had about five seconds to
go from full on to fully dimmed, otherwise "magic smoke" would billow
from the cage that surrounded the dimmer. The person on house lights was encouraged to practice with the house lights off, until they could do it
in the allotted time without making the dimmer produce a godawful
screeching noise... or "magic smoke".
The stage light dimmers were mounted vertically on a wooden panel with several desk fans blowing onto them from behind to keep them cool. Each dimmer could be connected to a variety of lighting circuits: there were
more lighting circuits than dimmers, and a fully-on circuit was
transferred from a dimmer to a straight-through connection to free up
the dimmer. I was presented with a piece of wood about an inch by half
an inch by eighteen inches; this was used to operate several dimmers at
once, either operating all at the same time (wooden bar horizontal) or
with the bar at an angle so some lights faded to black before others
did. The secret was to switch circuits that needed to be operated simultaneously onto *adjacent* dimmers. No prehensile feet were needed!
More than one, a dimmer's wire fuse blew in the middle of a play as we
were fading the lights up or down, so we rehearsed the transfer of the
failed circuit onto a different dimmer with its knob in roughly the same position so the visible effect was not *too* apparent. If it was a
critical light, someone actually shadowed the movement on a spare dimmer
and another lighting engineer was ready to transfer the circuit from one dimmer to another in record time.
This all sounds so familiar. I have used a single-dimmer board with 6 circuits and a dummy load (electric fire) which could be switched in to
the low wattage circuits when required to ensure that the lamps dimmed completely.
Liz Tuddenham wrote:
This all sounds so familiar.-a I have used a single-dimmer board with 6
circuits and a dummy load (electric fire) which could be switched in to
the low wattage circuits when required to ensure that the lamps dimmed
completely.
Ours had two axles, with several (8?) levers that could be rotated to
lock them onto their axle, or free them from it, so circuits could be
dimmed in groups or independently.
Andy Burns wrote:Not as impressive as the images I can see of those ...
Ours had two axles, with several (8?) levers that could be rotated to
lock them onto their axle, or free them from it, so circuits could be
dimmed in groups or independently.
Strand Grand Master?
Charles Hope wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
Ours had two axles, with several (8?) levers that could be rotated to
lock them onto their axle, or free them from it, so circuits could be
dimmed in groups or independently.
Strand Grand Master?Not as impressive as the images I can see of those ...
Andy Burns wrote:This looks a lot closer to what my school had
Charles Hope wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:Not as impressive as the images I can see of those ...
Ours had two axles, with several (8?) levers that could be rotated to
lock them onto their axle, or free them from it, so circuits could be
dimmed in groups or independently.
Strand Grand Master?
Furze made some like that
Liz Tuddenham wrote:
This all sounds so familiar.-a I have used a single-dimmer board with 6
circuits and a dummy load (electric fire) which could be switched in to
the low wattage circuits when required to ensure that the lamps dimmed
completely.
Ours had two axles, with several (8?) levers that could be rotated to
lock them onto their axle, or free them from it, so circuits could be
dimmed in groups or independently.
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