Hey everyone. I have been rolling an idea around my head for a while, and I wanted to see if anyone has done something similar.
In my venue, I currently have an "old school" home built cue light system. It all runs off of stage pin cable with standard A lamps for the light. The issue I have is that A) I only have 9 available cue lights, and B) the amount of cable I have to use at times.
My break out for the q lights is up in my cat walks, over the plaster line. If I need to run 2 lights to our automation station, I need to run about 400' of cable. If I need to run 4 lights to the back side of my set, not only do I need to run a few hundred feet of cable, but 4 separate runs.
In my venue I have ethernet ports for my lighting network all over the building. I have an idea of taking some 12v LED tape and wiring it up through ethernet connectors so I can just plug into my network ports, and daisy chain them together if need be. Having a switch in my dimmer room to Patch into, and maybe somehow utilize the PoE feature.
The other issue is that the SM booth doesn't have a lot of desk space so I would like to get something in a small package that I could maybe have a dozen or so lights.
Has anyone built something like this?
In my venue, I currently have an "old school" home built cue light system. It all runs off of stage pin cable with standard A lamps for the light. The issue I have is that A) I only have 9 available cue lights, and B) the amount of cable I have to use at times.
My break out for the q lights is up in my cat walks, over the plaster line. If I need to run 2 lights to our automation station, I need to run about 400' of cable. If I need to run 4 lights to the back side of my set, not only do I need to run a few hundred feet of cable, but 4 separate runs.
In my venue I have ethernet ports for my lighting network all over the building. I have an idea of taking some 12v LED tape and wiring it up through ethernet connectors so I can just plug into my network ports, and daisy chain them together if need be. Having a switch in my dimmer room to Patch into, and maybe somehow utilize the PoE feature.
The other issue is that the SM booth doesn't have a lot of desk space so I would like to get something in a small package that I could maybe have a dozen or so lights.
Has anyone built something like this?