Recent content by Terence Childs

Thank you RickR for those encouraging thoughts. We'll bear it in mind while installing the cabling.

Sadly, I think I am going to have to abandon the idea of dimmable LED production house lights. Considering the cost and the equipment on hand, easier to use traditional incandescent lamps (Cheap, Cheerful and they work). However for everyday lighting where dimming is not necessary (and used...

Chris 15, you are of course right. Very limited availability of hardware here. We normally source such items from UK where voltage is similar and we are able to import. I am not sure what emergency transfer - if our mains fails a stanby generator takes over the whole site in about 14 seconds...

Thank you all for your comments and help - Clearly this is not as simple as I had hoped! Further information: There is no equipment or wiring actually installed. However over the years with our older theatre we have accumulated a lot of traditionl equipment - DMX Desk (Zero 88), De-Mux units and...

Dear Dave, That was quick - thank you for the re-location of the thread - I'm new to these things!! The theatre is about 400 seat and we have got to the stage in construction where we are about to install the suspended ceiling under the roof. The celing will house the house lights. I will attach...

We are equiping a new theatre at our school in Nairobi Kenya. I am trying to get my head around using LED lamps for the house lights but need them to smoothly dim from 100% to 0%. (As the old tungsten ones did) We have DMX lighting control board coupled to demux and onto to a traditional...