Esoteric
Well-Known Member
Ah. I was thinking of a House to half fade, and then house out, but I suppose that makes sense that you would prefer to do a quick fade out, vs. a bump to black, even at half. Point taken and agreed! Full/smooth dimming jumps the cost exponentially... at the moment at least, which is why there aren't many options there yet for retrofits.
PHenry--That's a very neat PL house light! I was of course just referring to Retrofits in terms of output capability at this time. Just out of curiousity, why would you need tunable RGBW for a houselight? It could be very cool for some theatres that are more interactive with the audience where you break the 4th wall....
Cheers,
Mark
Yeah, I have at least half a dozen clients waiting on fully dimmable retrofit solutions and it seems like every other day I get a call from them because some Phillips or Cree dealer made a cold call and has no real idea what "fully dimmable" means and gets their hopes up over a $40 or $50 lamp, and then they call me wondering why I am trying to talk them into $1500 a piece units to do the same thing. I tell them to get get a sample and sure enough it does fine from 100%-20% and then BLINK its gone.
It is just really annoying having to deal with that all the time. Then I have to start the selling process all over again. I wish electrical distributor and sales people would stay in their residential/industrial world and out of the theater/house of worship world.
No disrespect toward you. I am sure you are awesome at what you do. But when someone actually makes a fully dimmable LED retrofit lamp, I will be a happy, happy man. But I consider myself up on what is in the market, and I know that such a thing is at least a couple of years away.
Until then, I tell my clients that their choices are conventional units and dimmers or an all in one LED unit replacement.
I also know you can play with dimmer curves to smooth things out, but I have still never seen an LED retrofit lamp that doesn't go BLINK at the end of its dimming curve and for house lights that is VERY annoying.
Cheers mate!