During on’ time, working on a prototype to a 2.4Kw Mars light - Cop Light Gumball
globe revolving
fixture that as opposed to normally putting out 35,000
CBCP per dual lamp, will put out either 160,000 or 600,000
Candlepower in a MFL beam spread dependant on budget at 40 to 50 RPM. Making it from scratch as the various
mirror ball and MARs light companies chickened out of making it for me. Doing stuff like gear ratios, fabricating parts, qouting out red roundels and figuring out how to make the whole Franken
Fixture II fit together. The first version of a franken
fixture had much less lead time and happend about two years ago by way of dual 90w low pressure
sodium vapor DMX doused
wash light which went spectacular, got to rehearsals, tried once in creating that black and white
effect than sent home in never being used again. Love inventing lighting fixtures even if a good portion of the time they get cut from the show after done. These Mars lights would I hope at least as concept out-punch the moving lights on the show. But still a question of A) design working and not having to make expensive changes at the last minute. B) us even getting the show meaning that would mean a two week lead time at best and it would take 2-4 weeks to get the lenses I need. C) Either somehow mounting roundels to the lamps by way of how I design the mounting for the lamp brackets or somehow coloring the 18"
clear globes that would surround the assembly above that might or might not get here on time and than the playing with how to color them red. D) no guts, no glory in something I don't have any experience in making but what the heck, I'm learning a lot now in how to make them if not for this project... for next time and often next time does happen again at least a few years later. Them above LPS
wash lights almost got used this past year. Almost but than got put back into the storage trailer - too powerful. R&D for the MARs lights was outfitting 250w/28v #4596 lamps into the normal
PAR 36 30w/12v
fixture. Looked good in putting out about a hundred more
CBCP but once we put on the red
lens, it got dim and dark. Time to go larger than life in lamp size and output. Still though, also learned a MARS light
globe won't melt down with a hugely powerful
ACL lamp. Or at least will take a few minutes to do so which given that note my
fixture will be force fan cooled.
And finding a quality screw based
stringer light assembly (think pepper lamp string
ers across a campsite but in this case for medium screw lamps) that’s
UL listed as a completed assembly and 18" on center plus able to take over 25w... but that I don’t need to buy 3,000 pcs at 100' of to get the one 40' piece I need. Wouldn’t believe how difficult such a thing is to find, but of my weblinks list I’m up to the “H” links now, perhaps somewhere behind that I’ll find a source.
Off hours as posted and more interesting, antique
fixture rewireing and fabrication of parts for them. They are for a perspective in the bid show but even if not will be done as it were in ready to use. Further challenge for the show would be re-basing my Kliegl Dyna Beam to outfit a different lamp such as a 2Kw CYX instead of the original
incandescent 3Kw lamp that cannot be replaced. Three screws removed and a spacer plate of some type added and it should be four hours work than done in making old
fixture new.
Beyond that I have a small three
phase 30a
distro to 120/208v
portable distro to make for the WisiWig room and a few
power stips to make for
LED land. This plus somewhere over a thousand lamps to inspect at like five minutes per lamp after inspecting and logging into the computer is done. Good news is works giving me a lap top so I can take the lamps home. Bad news is I’ll have to start working on inspecting the last four months worth of “bad” lamps once I no longer have that excuse.