Beans45601
Active Member
I recently began working at my old high school, helping them with the lighting for their spring musical.
The space is wonderful and has 5 electrics of strip lights, don't know the manufacturer, but they are 4 system strips (RGBA roundels) and have 100 lamps per strip. For the past 15+ years, they have been using these strip lights. That's been 500 PAR 38 lamps, burning at full, 8+ hours a say, 6+ days a week. As you can imagine, they aren't thrilled at the power usage or the cost of lamps/labor to be constantly changing lamps. Because of this, the began (blindly) changing out the PAR lamps for LED PAR lamps, keeping everything the same. They are about 1/3 through changing out all the lamps for LEDs.
This brings up many issues, the largest for me being that these strip lights are now basically useless. The dimming and color output is awful (as you can imagine). My contact at the school said that the district is telling her that she has to switch to LEDs.
I want to do something about this, but being that I'm only here temporarily and no one seems to understand the technical issues at hand, I'm not sure how (or if I should) move forward. I'd want to advocate for halting the LED retrofit and instead installing several CDM work lights.
Have any of you been in a similar situation? I really think that they are going down a path that will do no one any good, but I'm not sure how much change I could actually make.
The space is wonderful and has 5 electrics of strip lights, don't know the manufacturer, but they are 4 system strips (RGBA roundels) and have 100 lamps per strip. For the past 15+ years, they have been using these strip lights. That's been 500 PAR 38 lamps, burning at full, 8+ hours a say, 6+ days a week. As you can imagine, they aren't thrilled at the power usage or the cost of lamps/labor to be constantly changing lamps. Because of this, the began (blindly) changing out the PAR lamps for LED PAR lamps, keeping everything the same. They are about 1/3 through changing out all the lamps for LEDs.
This brings up many issues, the largest for me being that these strip lights are now basically useless. The dimming and color output is awful (as you can imagine). My contact at the school said that the district is telling her that she has to switch to LEDs.
I want to do something about this, but being that I'm only here temporarily and no one seems to understand the technical issues at hand, I'm not sure how (or if I should) move forward. I'd want to advocate for halting the LED retrofit and instead installing several CDM work lights.
Have any of you been in a similar situation? I really think that they are going down a path that will do no one any good, but I'm not sure how much change I could actually make.