Hey there, my high school is becoming dangerously dark on stage and desperately needs more light for working/rehearsing. With nothing but a 10-scene preset rehearsal box, I've been forced to hang 500W floods and record them into the rehearsal box. The alternate is to use my source fours and other stage equipment. (Over my dead body!)
I had a brilliant idea the other day where I would screw 100W equivalent CFLs into our three striplights (one on each of our electrics) and softpatch the circuts into the rehearsal box. And because we're running the now-discontinued ETC Express 250 : ( *sniff* I can set the CFL's profiles to a non-dim.
I apologize for not being specific with any of the brand names of my dimmers or strip lights, but this is a pretty old theatre. My question was whether anybody finds this suspiciously dangerous or has done something similar to this with better or worse results. And to anybody who does not know about the special deal on CFLs, PG&E really does lower their rates on select CFLs, enough so that one can purchase CFLs for under $2 each in packs of 4 (roughly $5.50 for a box)
Good day to all, or night...
Nik
[email protected]
Flickr: nikgwolf512's Photostream
I had a brilliant idea the other day where I would screw 100W equivalent CFLs into our three striplights (one on each of our electrics) and softpatch the circuts into the rehearsal box. And because we're running the now-discontinued ETC Express 250 : ( *sniff* I can set the CFL's profiles to a non-dim.
I apologize for not being specific with any of the brand names of my dimmers or strip lights, but this is a pretty old theatre. My question was whether anybody finds this suspiciously dangerous or has done something similar to this with better or worse results. And to anybody who does not know about the special deal on CFLs, PG&E really does lower their rates on select CFLs, enough so that one can purchase CFLs for under $2 each in packs of 4 (roughly $5.50 for a box)
Good day to all, or night...
Nik
[email protected]
Flickr: nikgwolf512's Photostream