soundofsparks
Active Member
I have a question that I believe I know the answer to, but thought I would crowd source it in case I'm wrong.
I have a prop that wants to move around the stage and be covered in Christmas Lights. I had looked at using LED 12VDC Christmas Lights on an RC4 Magic and 12VDC battery so that I can at least turn them on and off.
I had hoped that I could find some dimmable 12VDC LED Christmas Lights, but it doesn't seem like that's a thing (please interject here if you have some links or thoughts).
So, my backup plan is to use the RC4 Magic as a switch for the 12VDC LED Christmas Lights...
BUT then I wondered if I could use a power inverter and 120VAC Incandescent Christmas Lights. To make that work easily, I would have to go Battery > RC4 > Power Inverter > Christmas Lights. Essentially, dimming the input voltage going into the power inverter.
My question is, if I changed the input to the power inverter like this would I see dimming on the output side? Or would the power inverter just not work properly. My thought is that the power inverter would just not work properly, but I'm not sure why that would be true because it seems like it should work.
So what do you think? Is that an insane idea?
I have a prop that wants to move around the stage and be covered in Christmas Lights. I had looked at using LED 12VDC Christmas Lights on an RC4 Magic and 12VDC battery so that I can at least turn them on and off.
I had hoped that I could find some dimmable 12VDC LED Christmas Lights, but it doesn't seem like that's a thing (please interject here if you have some links or thoughts).
So, my backup plan is to use the RC4 Magic as a switch for the 12VDC LED Christmas Lights...
BUT then I wondered if I could use a power inverter and 120VAC Incandescent Christmas Lights. To make that work easily, I would have to go Battery > RC4 > Power Inverter > Christmas Lights. Essentially, dimming the input voltage going into the power inverter.
My question is, if I changed the input to the power inverter like this would I see dimming on the output side? Or would the power inverter just not work properly. My thought is that the power inverter would just not work properly, but I'm not sure why that would be true because it seems like it should work.
So what do you think? Is that an insane idea?