Erica W Thurlow

LOL that's awesome.

unfortunately, no pictures exist. However, you will get a kick out of the technician's diagnosis. Not only does it not make sense, it is entirely inaccurate. Makes my head hurt just thinking about it. What a nightmare dealing with all this was. I've attached the DOC file they send to production as their "official" diagnosis. They even had the audacity to include a "why we think this happened" letter indicating that the electric crew was to blame because a couple of us had holes in our glove's fingertips. Might I add that they speculated as to why our gloves were "holey" and concluded that one of us must have touched a HOT GLOBE with our leather gloves and melted them, thus causing the globes to explode. My head just about exploded when I read that. First of all, our gloves were worn from wrapping dirty 4/0 cable and stingers (the dust dried out the leather and weakened it). second of all... what kind of moron would open up a hot lamp and touch the globe, and then leave the damaged globe in the head? Even the greenest of electricians would never do that, and my crew was far from green. This vendor even tried to say that my crew was "inexperienced [which they spelled wrong in the letter] and put in positions they were not qualified to fill" Their opinion about this was formed when we returned the truck [a 10 ton that had no shelves, that's right... zero] that it was in disarray [another word they spelled wrong] and poorly packed. THE TRUCK HAD NO SHELVES. We were working with an empty shell of truck. Not to mention the difficult task it is to pack 20 tons of poop into a 10 ton truck... with no shelves. Kind of makes it hard to secure equipment. Even harder when that truck is operated by an overworked, underpaid Teamster. Whoops, I meant overpaid, and underworked. ;) JK Teamsters. Ok, I'm done reminiscing about this nightmare now. I hope you enjoyed it. TG_HMI_Damages.doc

Recently while working as 2nd Electric on a feature film, I witnessed an Arri 4K HMI globe explode violently right before my eyes moments after striking. The electrician that was operating the lamp did not handle it poorly nor did he have access to the globe before striking. The lamp burned all day the day before without problem. Could the globes lifespan have been the cause for explosion? In addition, a 12K was brought in to replace the 4K (all other HMIs were in play...) and moments after connecting the 12K (from a different line on the genny from the 4K, one stick of #2 5 wire banded and a 220v snakebite was used) the globe exploded! No one can figure out why this happened. Everything was connected properly and the globes were not handled. Factors include: This was an exterior and it was about 20 degrees outside. Also both lamps burned all day the day before and were then transported via scissor-lift to the exterior location. There were also 2 other 4Ks and 2 6Ks burning at the time of explosion, and they were not affected... So I don't think it was a voltage spike from the generator. After examining the damage the vendor has informed me that the 4K complete is totally shot. The head, head cable, and ballast are beyond repair. What could have caused this if there are no recognizable errors??? Anyone else ever experienced this?