So this is the amazing SMP (stage manager panel). This one is actually the #1 panel there is a sub panel on SL but it doesn't have all of the buttons. So the goals was to make sure no more voltage was running through any of these wires. An interesting task considering rats nest that is in here. Ryan spent most of the day after the meetings trying to run down the circuits and the breakers that would turn off the errant voltage. At around 3 pm i joined him on the last two errant voltages. A 7 volt that was going to the audience call bells in front of house and then the 120 volts that were still coming to the third terminal strip that you can see mounted in the back.
So Ryan started by following a false lead about the transformer to the left of the panel that was supposedly was maybe going to the bell system. it made sense since the only things with voltage in the panel was the terminal 22 and the bell system button. Ryan tried to follow the original electric plans that seemed to describe the 24 volt bell system but there was no Panel that made sense that indicated power for the bell system (we will get back to this later because it is scary as to why there was no indication on the breaker panels). So Ryan was our front flipping breakers on the G2 Panel in the Rug Storage Closet. As he was flipping the breakers i was out front and i was looking at the rats nest trying to figure out what hole the terminal leads were going to. It was pretty impossible actually. But did notice that the Transformer cables were not touching anything in this panel and the color of the cable was different from what was assumed because the cable was actually brown instead of the proposed Blue.So after flipping all the breakers in G2 panel and none of them cut our power Ryan came back and we started pulling more cables and trying to see which conduit our grey wire was going into. It seemed to be going into a conduit that crossed the stage. During this time Ryan discovered the terminal switches had a label that had fallen out of the way so held it back up and discovered that it was labeled PL 22.
What is PL 22? Our first thought was Plaster line. But what could that be. the outlets on the lip of the stage? No but then we headed over to the other sub SMP and that one had a lot less cables. The brown 22 cable was easier to follow and on of the leads ended on the other side of this connector installed in the bottom of the box. So suddenly PL became Pit Lift. Only a we always called it the pit elevator so the L didn't make sense until we found it terminating in this connector
So now back to the drawing to try and follow the Pit Lift lines. Now it gets interesting turning off what seems like the pit lift controller under the lift doesn't make us loose the power in the SMP box. So where is the Pit Controller getting its power. Ryan goes on a hunch to room 59 L (Dougs old office) where there is a panel that used to have the power for the main curtains motor power and controller power. By flipping off the breaker for the Main Curtain Controller (which was no longer used since we don't have that motor or those buttons in the SMP any more) it turned off the terminal. So there it is...the power to the controller had been routed through the now defunct main curtain controller.
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