Quoting you even though you said not to. Sorry. Altman sells Safety Screens for its PARs....As far as I know you cannot even buy a separate screen for the PARs that do not have them... but don't quote me on that.
Quoting you even though you said not to. Sorry. Altman sells Safety Screens for its PARs.
The screen is there not to keep the lamp in place, but to prevent large shards of glass from falling onto the stage/audience should a lamp shatter. I've never seen it happen, but someone must have, as sometime in the 1980s all manufacturers started including them. This is the same reason overhead cyc lights' colorframes have screens built into the color frame. Double-ended T-3 type lamps do explode, and the rumor is open-faced fixtures have been banned from use in some Convention Centers/Trade Show Floors.
unfortuatly a lot of performers like to walk around on stage barefoot.
I find it interesting that JD and I, who have something like sixty years of experience with ParCans between us, have never seen a PAR64 lamp break without impact, yet many others have.Seen plenty of the inner quartz envelopes blow but I have never seen a 64 outer glass shatter...
Quoting you even though you said not to. Sorry. Altman sells Safety Screens for its PARs.
The screen is there not to keep the lamp in place, but to prevent large shards of glass from falling onto the stage/audience should a lamp shatter. I've never seen it happen, but someone must have, as sometime in the 1980s all manufacturers started including them. This is the same reason overhead cyc lights' colorframes have screens built into the color frame. Double-ended T-3 type lamps do explode, and the rumor is open-faced fixtures have been banned from use in some Convention Centers/Trade Show Floors.
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