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Hey everyone!
I am in need of some help. I just became a Pastor of a church and have been updating the church visually. We are a pretty small assembly. Our sanctuary seats about 200 people, though our membership is closer to 100.
I am adding Stage Lights to run through LightKey, and am excited about that.
My problem area though is my house lights. We have about 19 recessed lighting that are halogen bulbs and controlled through 2 light switches that you flip on as you enter the sanctuary.
What I would like to do is switch those house light bulbs to LED and then find a way to make them DMX compatible so that I can control them with LightKey and include them with my stage light scenes. I am just looking to be able to dim them, they wouldn’t be RBG.
I was told of an idea where I take the electrical wire that is ran to my light switches, pull them up and drop them in my media booth, tie them to an Edison adaptor and then plug them into a Chaveut DMX Dimmer pack.
From my searching the forum, this doesn’t seem recommended — could you help me and confirm if this is a bad idea or if it would in fact work fine for me?
I gather there is a “permanent” and more “proper” way to do this: hardwired. Can someone walk me through that? What is needed and what does that process look like?
Is there a cost effective and easy solution to take 19 traditionally-wired church recessed LED and split/convert that to DMX. What do I need to purchase and how would that work? I would like to be able to articulate what I need done to an electrician in a way that makes sense.
Sorry if these are all NOOB questions. I’m a tech person, but not an electrician by stretch of the imagination.
Thank you all for the help!
I am in need of some help. I just became a Pastor of a church and have been updating the church visually. We are a pretty small assembly. Our sanctuary seats about 200 people, though our membership is closer to 100.
I am adding Stage Lights to run through LightKey, and am excited about that.
My problem area though is my house lights. We have about 19 recessed lighting that are halogen bulbs and controlled through 2 light switches that you flip on as you enter the sanctuary.
What I would like to do is switch those house light bulbs to LED and then find a way to make them DMX compatible so that I can control them with LightKey and include them with my stage light scenes. I am just looking to be able to dim them, they wouldn’t be RBG.
I was told of an idea where I take the electrical wire that is ran to my light switches, pull them up and drop them in my media booth, tie them to an Edison adaptor and then plug them into a Chaveut DMX Dimmer pack.
From my searching the forum, this doesn’t seem recommended — could you help me and confirm if this is a bad idea or if it would in fact work fine for me?
I gather there is a “permanent” and more “proper” way to do this: hardwired. Can someone walk me through that? What is needed and what does that process look like?
Is there a cost effective and easy solution to take 19 traditionally-wired church recessed LED and split/convert that to DMX. What do I need to purchase and how would that work? I would like to be able to articulate what I need done to an electrician in a way that makes sense.
Sorry if these are all NOOB questions. I’m a tech person, but not an electrician by stretch of the imagination.
Thank you all for the help!