@C Duke A couple of comments for you: Vibration from synchronized foot-falls and dancing traveling through the floor are
really tough on the filaments of
footlights. A shop I was with in the mid 90's built the rock opera "Tommy" a few times. The LX designer specified 120 volt
MR16's for
foot lights with six or eight of them across the front of the hollow automated floor
deck. Every performance the
production electrician would begin with them all working and he'd be lucky if they were all still lit by interval. There would always be several out by the finale. It was even worse when we built "Tommy" for Offenbach / Frankfurt Germany in '95 and again for London, England in '96 where the LX designer insisted on us using the same 120 volt
MR16's wired in series connected pairs for the 240 and 230 volt dimmers. They would have held up better with 6 or 12 volt
MR16's with their larger, sturdier, filaments driven by transformers.
When you say "
marquee lights", do you mean lights outlining scenery that
chase with typical three or four
circuit chase patterns? If so, consider purchasing manufactured strings of 120 volt lights with the sockets spaced every
foot to 18" then laying out three or four strings beside each other with their beginnings staggered a few inches and
power them from three or four dimmers running
chase patterns from your lighting board. This has always worked out well for me.
Posting from north of Donald's walls.
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard