Stage Automation

Stage Technologies Automation User Generated Handbook

Desk Hardware

The desk we use for the Automation system within the Academy is the Illusionist Desk.

The controls for the desk

• A flat panel display screen
• 58 command keys on the right hand side of the console
• A compact external keyboard
• 3 E-Belt playbacks (far left red,then blue and yellow) each with go/stop and select keys
• An emergency stop button
• A touch pad with left and right mouse buttons
• A single adjustable desk light
• A writeable CD Rom drive
• There is a mountable rack
• A single deadman's handle situated below the playbacks

With the deadman's handle it is essential it is pressed and held down before amove and kept pressed down for the duration of the move.

Constraints imposed by the hardware

• Not designed to be portable
• Does not have a touch screen
• There is no duplicated computer hardware
• The illusionist only has three playbacks so it would be impossible to create a cue that would

require five playbacks.

Using playbacks,starting and stopping

Command Keys