Full Disclosure, I'm a music teacher by trade and new to running and programming lights. We have a fairly new theater (4 years old). We run our lighting system with an ETC Ion Xe. Our system is equiped with 2 touch screen pads that allow operation of the house lights, rehearsal lights and orchestra shell without turning on the lightboard. When the lightboard is on the touch screen has a menu to toggle between console and mutual control. In that same menu it has a toggle for house power, and show power.
Show Power controls a bunch of our theater outlets. With the light board off, I can power on and off what ever is plugged into those outlets. When the light board comes on however, these outlets are powerd and the toggle on the touch pad does not work. I can't figure out how to toggle them on and off through the light board. It seem like I should be able to use them to contol scenary lamps and other such things but I can;t figure it out.
Does anyone have ewxperience with how this might work?
