The new project, BSR E1.32-200x, Recommended Practice for the Inspection of Entertainment Industry Luminaires, is designed to help electricians conduct regular inspections of lighting instruments. In working on the BSR E1.19 GFCI project, it has become clear to the working group that one of the causes of ground-fault circuit interrupters tripping on stages, in studios, and on location shoots is faulty lighting equipment. Regular inspection would allow faults to be identified and corrected so they aren't risks to personnel or causes of production delays.
Interested parties - who would be anybody who owns, rents, uses, inspects, or repairs stage and studio luminaires - are invited to participate in the project by joining the Electrical Power Working Group or by participating in future public reviews of the draft document. Information about joining this working group and others is available from the ESTA website here.
Anyone objecting to the project because he feels it is not needed, because it would duplicate or contradict advice given in an existing standard, or because of some other reason, is invited to state his objection in writing to standards@esta.org. Objections should be filed before the end of the day on 12 March 2006.
ESTA also reports that three standards documents are available for public review from nowthrough the end of the day UTC on 11 April 2006. ANSI E1.3-2001, Entertainment Technology-Lighting Control Systems-0 to 10V Analog Control Specification, is being considered for reaffirmation without any changes. ANSI E1.3-2001 is approaching its fifth birthday and action needs to be taken to keep the document active and in the ANSI catalog. The standard has been useful as a lowest common denominator control method for connecting a variety of controllers and controlled products. No one makes a big deal aboutanalogue control, but it is still being used on new and custom products. The public review response form is available from the ESTA website here. The standard that is the subject of the review is the existing ANSI E1.3 standard, which is available for sale at its regular price. Information about purchasing it is available from the ESTA website here.
ANSI E1.14-2001, Entertainment Technology-Recommendations for Inclusions in Fog Equipment Manuals, is being considered for reaffirmation without any changes. ANSI E1.14-2001 is approaching its fifth birthday and action needs to be taken to keep the documentactive and in the ANSI catalog. So far, it has been a useful guidance document for specifying what information fog equipment manufacturers need to give equipment users and for telling end-users what information they should expect to receive so they can use the equipment in a safe and responsible manner. The public review response form is available from the ESTA website here. The standard that is the subject of the review is the existing ANSI E1.14-2001, which is available for free on the ESTA website here.
BSR E1.9-200x, Reporting Photometric Performance Data for Luminaires Used in Entertainment Lighting, is a revised version of the existing ANSI E1.9-2001. The standard is approaching its fifth birthday and action needs to be taken to keep the document active, but the existing standard has not been used widely because it has a great number of requirements. It is hoped that by removing some of
