Craig Hauber
Well-Known Member
I have home-made bars of 6 X 60W BR30. They are 6 individual bulb sockets on individual octagon j-boxes mounted about 2' apart on 10' sticks of unistrut.
A single circuit feeds all 6 and they have a 6' type SO pigtail with a 5-15 edison for powering. All bulbs are just basic 60W -no LED's.
I have 3 and a half sets all plugged into 1 channel of dimming for a total of 1260W
They have been there for a few years and working fine as backdrop lights.
When connected to our "new-to-us" but used Colortran i-series dimmer rack I get a jumpy & flickering quality of dim up or down. It holds fine at full but has the occasional subtle flicker-blink at levels below 100%
I tried a different dimmer channel with exactly the same results.
I've then run lekos and pars off all those same dimmers afterwards with smooth quiet dimming as normal.
Is there something about multiple small filaments that these dimmers don't like?
They are all the dual 2.4k modules in a 48ch rack that all channels work wonderfully with normal 500 to 1000W loads.
What's sad is I ran them off really cheap AmericanDJ 4ch packs and they behave much better. Still a bit of flicker (stepping) while fading, but they hold steady at partial dim.
Any suggestions or experiences with this type of dimming?
I'm going to take a string of festoon lights tonight and see if they behave similarily. As well I'm going to try adding a 1000W par can along with the backlights on the same dimmer to see if loading it down more would help
I do not have the software or a vintage MS-DOS computer to change any internal dimmer settings, nor do I have the "handheld remote"
A single circuit feeds all 6 and they have a 6' type SO pigtail with a 5-15 edison for powering. All bulbs are just basic 60W -no LED's.
I have 3 and a half sets all plugged into 1 channel of dimming for a total of 1260W
They have been there for a few years and working fine as backdrop lights.
When connected to our "new-to-us" but used Colortran i-series dimmer rack I get a jumpy & flickering quality of dim up or down. It holds fine at full but has the occasional subtle flicker-blink at levels below 100%
I tried a different dimmer channel with exactly the same results.
I've then run lekos and pars off all those same dimmers afterwards with smooth quiet dimming as normal.
Is there something about multiple small filaments that these dimmers don't like?
They are all the dual 2.4k modules in a 48ch rack that all channels work wonderfully with normal 500 to 1000W loads.
What's sad is I ran them off really cheap AmericanDJ 4ch packs and they behave much better. Still a bit of flicker (stepping) while fading, but they hold steady at partial dim.
Any suggestions or experiences with this type of dimming?
I'm going to take a string of festoon lights tonight and see if they behave similarily. As well I'm going to try adding a 1000W par can along with the backlights on the same dimmer to see if loading it down more would help
I do not have the software or a vintage MS-DOS computer to change any internal dimmer settings, nor do I have the "handheld remote"