Our stage has 8 400w Metal Halide lamps that are used as ghost lights. A bit overkill to say the least. They are noisy and they don't function well as work lights because of that.
I was looking into retrofitting LED's into the fixtures themselves, but haven't found much info. Some sellers online seem to have kits that supply a ~120w LED fixture with an in-line ballast that I'm assuming bypasses the ballast inside the existing fixture. I'm not sure how these work without voiding the UL listing of the fixture. These are shoebox shaped enclosures BTW.
The other option would be to replace the fixtures with new LED enclosures. I'd like to find some with a lower color temp since the 4000k HID lamps don't help us when we're trying to match colors on stage.
Anyone been down this path before?
I was looking into retrofitting LED's into the fixtures themselves, but haven't found much info. Some sellers online seem to have kits that supply a ~120w LED fixture with an in-line ballast that I'm assuming bypasses the ballast inside the existing fixture. I'm not sure how these work without voiding the UL listing of the fixture. These are shoebox shaped enclosures BTW.
The other option would be to replace the fixtures with new LED enclosures. I'd like to find some with a lower color temp since the 4000k HID lamps don't help us when we're trying to match colors on stage.
Anyone been down this path before?