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Oh, holy hell. I thought "old sparky" was bad. It was a board cobbled together from a bunch of residential rheostats. The entire power supply of the theater flo
by jfengel 2y ago
Oh, holy hell. I thought "old sparky" was bad. It was a board cobbled together from a bunch of residential rheostats. The entire power supply of the theater flowed through that board.
But at least Old Sparky didn't produce toxic fumes. It was merely a fire hazard.
- mkwarman 2y agoDo you know of anywhere I could learn more about this? Googling "old sparky" just yields articles about electric chairs, even when including keywords such as "rheostat" and "theatre"
- jfengel 2y agoThat was just the theater's name for it. I imagine other theaters had similar contraptions, and because of the expression they probably came to similar names. It was at least 40 years old. I would hope they've all been retired.