Hello all,
Our school bought about 70 Source Four lights by ETC and a few Source Four Juniors and cyc lights along with an Ion and Cem+ 96 Dimmer Rack with an extended architectural Unison controler. It is about 9 months old. I honestly think that buying 70 Source Four lights was a waste of money when you could of bought intelligent lights instead. We have the full setup in out chapel for conventional lighting, 3 electrics (distros?) in the front of house and 3 electrics (distros) behind the stage. Each electric (distro) has ETC Net ports on them. We also already have 3 ETC DMX Net Gateways and are powered over the Ethernet.
So since we have the FULL capabilities to add some intelligent lights, I decided to pick some out to present to the fine arts director who will buy them. I have looked mainly just on guitar centers website at iLights and picked out a few, around a $1,500 budget. I don't want to overwhelm him so I think 4 iLights would be a good start. Here is a list of the lights I liked, and what do you think of them keeping the compatibility in mind of the Ion board:
1) Chauvet Q-Spot 200 Chauvet Q-Spot 200 DMX Moving Yoke Lighting Fixture and more Moving Head Fixtures at GuitarCenter.com.
2) Chauvet Q-Spot 300 Chauvet Q-Spot 300 DMX Moving Yoke Lighting Fixture and more Moving Head Fixtures at GuitarCenter.com.
3) Chauvet Q-Spot 575 Chauvet Q-Spot 575 Moving Yoke DMX Lighting Fixture and more Moving Head Fixtures at GuitarCenter.com.
4) Elation Design Spot 250 Hybrid Spot and Wash Elation Design Spot 250 Hybrid Intelligent Spot And Wash In One and more Moving Head Fixtures at GuitarCenter.com.
5) Elation Design Wash 250 Hybrid Spot and Wash Elation Design Wash 250 Hybrid Intelligent Spot and Wash Moving-Head Fixture and more Moving Head Fixtures at GuitarCenter.com.
6) Elation Power Spot 250 Elation Power Spot 250 250-Watt Moving-Head Fixture and more Moving Head Fixtures at GuitarCenter.com.
7) OmniSistem Omni 250 Spot OmniSistem Omni 250 Spot Moving Yoke DMX Lighting Effect and more Moving Head Fixtures at GuitarCenter.com.
Number 5, I am not sure if i necessarily want a wash. I am not sure if washes are the most common. I assumed Spots would be better, especially if some have the frost anyways.
I know those are a lot of different lights, but help would be REALLY appreciated.
I can answer any questions you have also.
Thank you SO much!
Marshall
Our school bought about 70 Source Four lights by ETC and a few Source Four Juniors and cyc lights along with an Ion and Cem+ 96 Dimmer Rack with an extended architectural Unison controler. It is about 9 months old. I honestly think that buying 70 Source Four lights was a waste of money when you could of bought intelligent lights instead. We have the full setup in out chapel for conventional lighting, 3 electrics (distros?) in the front of house and 3 electrics (distros) behind the stage. Each electric (distro) has ETC Net ports on them. We also already have 3 ETC DMX Net Gateways and are powered over the Ethernet.
So since we have the FULL capabilities to add some intelligent lights, I decided to pick some out to present to the fine arts director who will buy them. I have looked mainly just on guitar centers website at iLights and picked out a few, around a $1,500 budget. I don't want to overwhelm him so I think 4 iLights would be a good start. Here is a list of the lights I liked, and what do you think of them keeping the compatibility in mind of the Ion board:
1) Chauvet Q-Spot 200 Chauvet Q-Spot 200 DMX Moving Yoke Lighting Fixture and more Moving Head Fixtures at GuitarCenter.com.
2) Chauvet Q-Spot 300 Chauvet Q-Spot 300 DMX Moving Yoke Lighting Fixture and more Moving Head Fixtures at GuitarCenter.com.
3) Chauvet Q-Spot 575 Chauvet Q-Spot 575 Moving Yoke DMX Lighting Fixture and more Moving Head Fixtures at GuitarCenter.com.
4) Elation Design Spot 250 Hybrid Spot and Wash Elation Design Spot 250 Hybrid Intelligent Spot And Wash In One and more Moving Head Fixtures at GuitarCenter.com.
5) Elation Design Wash 250 Hybrid Spot and Wash Elation Design Wash 250 Hybrid Intelligent Spot and Wash Moving-Head Fixture and more Moving Head Fixtures at GuitarCenter.com.
6) Elation Power Spot 250 Elation Power Spot 250 250-Watt Moving-Head Fixture and more Moving Head Fixtures at GuitarCenter.com.
7) OmniSistem Omni 250 Spot OmniSistem Omni 250 Spot Moving Yoke DMX Lighting Effect and more Moving Head Fixtures at GuitarCenter.com.
Number 5, I am not sure if i necessarily want a wash. I am not sure if washes are the most common. I assumed Spots would be better, especially if some have the frost anyways.
I know those are a lot of different lights, but help would be REALLY appreciated.
I can answer any questions you have also.
Thank you SO much!
Marshall