Got a service call last week. Westminister High School Gymnasium. Some coach thought it would be a good idea to change out the 6 hour timer switch (for the 30- 400watt MH high bays) with the Clapper (u know clap on/ clap off). Well during a game that night, when everyone applauded... (u can probally guess what happened). The contactors went bezerk! and caught fire.

lol

That realy makes me laugh (sorry I know I should not. Hope no one was hurt in the fire)

Still it sounds like a scean from some crazy movie

Skipr: Sounds like a pretty good service call for you. Must have been hilarious at the time...but now the fun's over. I hope that coach had some snappy answers for screwing around with something he had no business getting into .

Mike (mamills)

Sounds like the coach was a real fan of Tim Taylor (Home Improvement).

Yet, on a more serious note.... The latest energy codes would have those lights on a programmable timer, with the manual bypass limited to operating the lights for a maximum of two hours.

That, of course, leads to the following scenario. The school has such a good team, it gets into the playoffs. Since playoff games are not part of the schedule, they are not programmed into the timer. Come playoff day, the lights are switched on manually.
The game goes into overtime. Just as the tie-breaking score is made...CLUNK.... and off go the lights. Being HID, everyone (including the TV networks) gets to wait 20 minutes for them to re-strike.

Progress! Gotta love it!

Sorry, but can you please essplain what a clapper is? Some sort of sound sensitive control? We'uns never heered of them sorta thangs here in Arkansaw...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clapper

from the makers of the Chia Pet

Good thing their team stinks anyways.

Yes, but at least now their coach has a-plaus-ible excuse!

Alan

"Yes, but at least now their coach has a-plaus-ible excuse!"

OUCH, that's bad

Alan, I have a bit of advice for you:

Keep your day job.

Sixer, thanks for the info.

If M.J. was able to win the NBA final with the flu, those boys should've been able to play with the clap.
Joe

Reno--
That, of course, leads to the following scenario. The school has such a good team, it gets into the playoffs. Since playoff games are not part of the schedule, they are not programmed into the timer. Come playoff day, the lights are switched on manually.
The game goes into overtime. Just as the tie-breaking score is made...CLUNK.... and off go the lights. Being HID, everyone (including the TV networks) gets to wait 20 minutes for them to re-strike.
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We had that problem with the theatre dimmers at my high school. We always forgot to disable the 8pm "shutdown the dimmer rack" command, and lo and behold it did it every rehearsal. Somehow, though, we remembered to turn it off for actual shows. The only saving grace is that it only took it two-ish minutes to re-start (it had a self-test it ran at start-up).