Should work in a strip light fine - that's a series wired thing without
transformer. This given the comparison of wattages it won't be as bright but if close up and lamping down - yes you can lamp down a strip light in lamp wattage as long as the
voltage is the same all should be fine. This except
LED's don't like to be dimmed but are on the market now dimmable and soon will be overall.
CRI of that amount is troublesome however. Figure that as a % and a
halogen or
incandescent lamp at 100%. That's how much of true color
rendering you will get out of the light on say a
backdrop as opposed to
flat looking light or lack or true color mixing.
Still
LED is the new thing... awaiting this week a 6w MR-16 lamp from Halco which should be really bright, this an a 12v
PAR 36 lamp from them I bought both as prototype and so as to bulk up a small order. Lots of suppliers for
LED lamps, Osram to Bulbrite with lots of other suppliers, lots of technology to see and be aware of. This concept of
LED cyc light replacement lamps could some day be reality by way of just changing the lamps but
CRI and output isn't there yet so far. Good stuff and I'm waiting for my sample of Ushio's flexible
LED strip lights, but overall for a
stage type
cyc, I don't think it's there yet.
Remember years ago the first
LED wash light presented to us... wasn't bright enough and fake in color
rendering. It's coming soon. Our own highest output to the best of another department's knowledge - 5w
LED sources in home built
fixture just got cut from a tour in them taking 4-lite audience blinders instead. Don't know why be it
intensity, color
rendering or being able to control them but they were not ready yet as a concept. Overall, the first tour all lit by
LED's went out years ago, still a question of
LED's brighter and full spectrum but it was cutting
edge and a constant high technology to follow. More and more shows these days are mostly lit by
LED's but still supplemented by
HID or
halogen sources.
Overall, the full spectrum dimmable replacement lamp for a
halogen is coming, not here yet though. On the other
hand good
play test of the Ushio I hope TBA you tell about.
Beyond all this...
LED replacement bulbs ain't cheap. Believe I paid like $34.00 for the 6w MR-16 and $47.00 for the
PAR 36 above lamps. That ain't cheap especially if one is outfitting a
fixture or show's worth of lamps. Also just bid out $24K on the lamps,
power supplies and other parts without labor for a
LED color changing sign for a band with over 300 individually controlled color changing lamps placed about 6" on center on the sign. Granted this band's sign will have been like 6' high and 20' long using Phiilps/Color Kinetics I-color MR g2, 60 drgree Wide Beam, 5
Watt/24VDC lamps with
power supplies that only
power up 14 lamps per
power supply but each lamp is individually progammable for
DMX channel. On the other
hand, just programming the individual lamps I figured 17 hours alone in someone just programming each individual lamp for a speficic
DMX channel for the man/hours part of the bid in labor.
LED's being pulled kicking and screaming into them, but don't think overall they are ready yet for say a upgrade to a mini
cyc yet. Too expensive for the output and color
rendering. This much less some lighting design
system is ready to communicate with each individual lamp in an upgrade so as to communicate with them, it's hard enough to assign channels to something with dip switches. Something that's micro
processor dip switched is not ready for bulk yet in controll.
