I'm going out on long limb. I'm going to recommend
MR16 striplights.
Our problem, and a problem common to any flying
cyc light pipe, is if you don't have depth, you don't have coverage with open faced units.
T3 series
Cyc Lights, of which
Coda's, Sky Cycs, C-Tran's,
etc.. are part of a family of fixtures that work really, really well when the pipe they hang on is 6-8ft from the
drop/
cyc. Further is better, especially when you can lamp to 2kw or so.
In this scenario, the coverage from these units is terrific.
It's when you don't have the depth that T3 units fall short. When you get inside 5 ft or so, and note that the height of the
cyc is VERY critical, you can't get top to bottom even coverage. With shorter drops, you can get closer.
We had an original set of
Strand T3 lamp
Cyc Lights - by original, I mean they were designed for glass filter ONLY. The distance of
cyc light pipe (#5
electric) to
cyc was 4 ft. The coverage was the top 10-12 ft. of a 30 ft. high
cyc. Our
ground row fixtures (just as old) covered the bottom thitd, leaving a 10 ft horizontal hole in the middle.
We changed to a set of L&E 6ft/
MR16 fixtures, 6 across in spot lamps, hung below 6 across in flood lamps. All in 3
circuit. We use 75w lamps all across (10 per
circuit per
fixture) with 12x2.4 dimmers for 3 - 9,000
watt washes.
The strips are ALWAYS used with
Rosco R104 linear diffusion and/or the R124/125/126/127 series diffused colors. The strips typically hang 2-4 ft from
Cyc and/or drops.
We have never had a complaint in 20 years of use, as to the lack of even coverage and/or
intensity, and these units put out a
wash that we would need a set of 2kw SkyCycs (or whatever the C-Tran version was at the time - Far
Cyc's ?) at 8ft. depth to duplicate (I know this as we' tried it). That setup was 8 fixtures across a 40ft. wide
cyc, PER
WASH, which totalled out to 48kw for 3 color washes. It was a little
bit brighter and even then the
MR16's, but not much and used a LOT more dimmers.
My $.02
SB