Thursday, October 15, 2009

Gym heat, winters here...

Since we are in to the cold weather already I thought I would share a little info on the gym heat.
The gym has 2 furnaces, the on/off controls are in the kitchen, thermostats on the walls.
The kitchen controls are labeled front and back, each control has 2 switches.
Please make sure the controls are always switched to "winter", then to turn the blowers on switch to "on".
If the controls are set to summer, the system reverts to AC and also pulls in air directly from outside, for winter this is bad...
To get heat, turn the wall thermostats up until the red light comes on.
Please turn both units on first thing in the morning, when it gets too hot on stage, turn the front unit off, but leave the back unit on all the time.
As people start to come in alot of cold air comes in with them and having the back unit on all the time helps to make it more comfortable.

Thanks,
Keith

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Multimedia connections

As most of you have experienced we use a 2 screen, 2 projector setup for most of our services. For the most part I have been less than happy with the quality of images we get with our current wiring. Ghosting of the image is the most common issue, and a general lack of sharpness on the second projector in line.
The wiring will now be as follows;
Multimedia station - Cat5 - Cat5 converter - VGA - Splitter
< VGA to projector1
VGA 25' to projector 2

I have shortened up the 2nd VGA and it will have to run across the front of the stage to reach.
We tried it this past week and I thought the images looked crisper with no ghosting.
Let me know what you think as we give this a try.
Thanks,
Keith