Hi
I'm working on the renovation of a community/school hall over here NZ. Every supplier wants ot give conflicting information about what I should do so I'm looking for a bit of guidance.
Our stage is 11m wide and 6m deep. I've finally decided that I will put 3 11m long lighting bars in. I'm using galvanised tube not prewired because of the tiny budget. The school only has a roll of 100 students. I plan to site the bars as follows - 1 at 1.5m from back of stage. 1 front of house (about 3m from stage front). 1 behind the procenium - about 2m from front stage.
We're installing an infrastrcture as 3-phase power isn't available to the hall yet so we have to wait 4 months for the power upgrade and dimmer pack installation (12 channel planned). I'll address one question only as this post is getting long!
We're wiring permanent powerpoints at 1m centres along the FOH bar, leading back to the dimmer pack location. As I understand it these circuits (each point) have a standard power plug on the end which plugs into the dimmer pack control/patch panel? I've been told that I should wire two powerpoints into each plug, working from either end (so position 1 and 12 have one plug, 2 and 11 and so on). In the short term we've been loaned some LED fixtures so I also need some powerpoints next to the dimmer to plug the circuits into for LED use.
Question is, is the above the right way to go and what other cabling needs to go to the powerpoints does each point need DMX cabling to it for LED and future dimmer controlled lights?
I've been told I use cat5e cabling for DMX and I should put 1 point to the bar only?
I appeciate any help anyone can give.
Thanks
Paul
I'm working on the renovation of a community/school hall over here NZ. Every supplier wants ot give conflicting information about what I should do so I'm looking for a bit of guidance.
Our stage is 11m wide and 6m deep. I've finally decided that I will put 3 11m long lighting bars in. I'm using galvanised tube not prewired because of the tiny budget. The school only has a roll of 100 students. I plan to site the bars as follows - 1 at 1.5m from back of stage. 1 front of house (about 3m from stage front). 1 behind the procenium - about 2m from front stage.
We're installing an infrastrcture as 3-phase power isn't available to the hall yet so we have to wait 4 months for the power upgrade and dimmer pack installation (12 channel planned). I'll address one question only as this post is getting long!
We're wiring permanent powerpoints at 1m centres along the FOH bar, leading back to the dimmer pack location. As I understand it these circuits (each point) have a standard power plug on the end which plugs into the dimmer pack control/patch panel? I've been told that I should wire two powerpoints into each plug, working from either end (so position 1 and 12 have one plug, 2 and 11 and so on). In the short term we've been loaned some LED fixtures so I also need some powerpoints next to the dimmer to plug the circuits into for LED use.
Question is, is the above the right way to go and what other cabling needs to go to the powerpoints does each point need DMX cabling to it for LED and future dimmer controlled lights?
I've been told I use cat5e cabling for DMX and I should put 1 point to the bar only?
I appeciate any help anyone can give.
Thanks
Paul
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