CameronLD
Member
Hello all!
I am a lighting designer entering my final year of high school and looking to really improve upon our electrics crew. We have several limitations to major improvements, including a relatively small inventory of fixtures, and (perhaps most limiting) only about 70 dimmers to run our lights off of. This summer I had the opportunity to design at another high school in my area with a youth theatre company, where I had approximately 160 dimmers and a huge supply of fixtures to work with. After toiling with the equipment at my school for years, I was finally able to make a huge leap forward and design a show I could really be proud of, with the help of a fantastic theatre and equipment. That being said, I must now return to my school and work with a comparatively poor state of affairs.
However, I believe I may have found a way to combat my limitations at my school, at least partly. I would like to get this led par package: http://www.cheapdjgear.us/American_DJ_Mega_Tripar_Profile_Up_Lighting_System_p/upsys-14.htm through our Patrons of The Arts parent donor group. I think they would be willing to finance it, but I need to make sure it is what I need. I would use these lights as specials, with conventional fixtures making up our repertory plot and supplementing for specials where necessary.
But I have 2 questions:
1) Do LED pars like these need a "brain" at the end of a loop to control them? I have one already for a few color scrollers that I got last year, but don't know if you need a specific brain, or no brain at all, to run these. Would I need to get a dmx signal repeater (since I will have to string the dmx cable through the house as there are no dmx outlets backstage) to run this to the booth, which would be approximately 200 feet in dmx cable away from the stage (going around the walls).
2) One thing that I really like about these is that their power can be daisy chained. I just need to confirm the following: I would run all of these lights off of a single edison outlet backstage, but would be able to control the intensity of the fixtures from our lighting console if everything was wired properly, yes?
Thank you so much for your help!
Cameron
I am a lighting designer entering my final year of high school and looking to really improve upon our electrics crew. We have several limitations to major improvements, including a relatively small inventory of fixtures, and (perhaps most limiting) only about 70 dimmers to run our lights off of. This summer I had the opportunity to design at another high school in my area with a youth theatre company, where I had approximately 160 dimmers and a huge supply of fixtures to work with. After toiling with the equipment at my school for years, I was finally able to make a huge leap forward and design a show I could really be proud of, with the help of a fantastic theatre and equipment. That being said, I must now return to my school and work with a comparatively poor state of affairs.
However, I believe I may have found a way to combat my limitations at my school, at least partly. I would like to get this led par package: http://www.cheapdjgear.us/American_DJ_Mega_Tripar_Profile_Up_Lighting_System_p/upsys-14.htm through our Patrons of The Arts parent donor group. I think they would be willing to finance it, but I need to make sure it is what I need. I would use these lights as specials, with conventional fixtures making up our repertory plot and supplementing for specials where necessary.
But I have 2 questions:
1) Do LED pars like these need a "brain" at the end of a loop to control them? I have one already for a few color scrollers that I got last year, but don't know if you need a specific brain, or no brain at all, to run these. Would I need to get a dmx signal repeater (since I will have to string the dmx cable through the house as there are no dmx outlets backstage) to run this to the booth, which would be approximately 200 feet in dmx cable away from the stage (going around the walls).
2) One thing that I really like about these is that their power can be daisy chained. I just need to confirm the following: I would run all of these lights off of a single edison outlet backstage, but would be able to control the intensity of the fixtures from our lighting console if everything was wired properly, yes?
Thank you so much for your help!
Cameron