How much time you give a moving light to be off when hard reseting?

[McCready00]

Some say 2 seconds to avoid the reflector to break, some say 10 seconds to allow the capacitors to get empty..

What do you think?

Thanks

 

[JD]

Depends on the mover. Any discharge mover should at least be kept off until the lamp is ready for restrike, which is usually measured in minutes. Many offer a hot-restrike, but if you are doing a reset, might as well let it time out. Never heard of a reflector breaking. As for LEDs or the occasional incandescent, 10 seconds is fine.

 

[Amiers]

A smoke or coffee break.

 

[McCready00]

Depends on the mover. Any discharge mover should at least be kept off until the lamp is ready for restrike, which is usually measured in minutes. Many offer a hot-restrike, but if you are doing a reset, might as well let it time out. Never heard of a reflector breaking. As for LEDs or the occasional incandescent, 10 seconds is fine.

What are the consequences of waiting less than 10sec and to turn on with the capacitors not totally empty?

 

[JD]

What are the consequences of waiting less than 10sec and to turn on with the capacitors not totally empty?

Most likely, the light will simply go through it's housekeeping and work fine as the processor will reset/reboot if the rail drops for even less than a second. On a discharge type mover, it will have to restrike and the lamp may not be ready to do that. Too many failed attempts and it may throw an error and stop trying.
The real problems start if the interruption was fast enough to sag the power rails but not trip a full reset. If that is the case, you may have some corrupt data in the memory which may cause the fixture to crash its program or behave in a very odd fashion. Thus, the 10 second rule of thumb. Once the reset is tripped, the processor will clear all memory (except EEprom) and reload its operating system off of on-board ROM.

 

[lightman02]

What are the consequences of waiting less than 10sec and to turn on with the capacitors not totally empty?

It's like any electronic device that has a sartup sequence, turn it off for a few seconds and turn it back on to make sure the processor is fully powered down, not a big deal. If it has a lamp that requires a cool down to re-strike, then you might as well leave it off for 5 to 10 minutes as it will be too hot and not let you re-strike anyway.