Swade White
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Hello ControlBooth,
I'm no electrician so I figured I would ask some people that know what they are doing before I just do it. I am wondering if it is safe to run moving lights and some LEDs off of a dimmer rack (ETC Sensor3). Our current situation requires us to run extension cords up to the electric battens and plug them into Edison outlets on the stage floor. This is very inconvenient when we need to lower or raise the electrics and also because it is using up most of the outlets on stage level. I am wondering if I were to replace the Edison plugs on all the automated lights with stage pin ones, would that be safe for both the electrics inside the light and even the dimmers themselves? We have an ETC Element so I would just set a non-dim and grand master exempt for those specific channels that they are plugged into. We have 4 Vari-lite VL2500's, 6 random generic 36x10w LED Moving Heads that I found on eBay, and 4 Elation EPAR QA LED par cans. Thanks!
Edit: Writing this got me thinking... Would this method also work on something like a cheap LED strip that you put behind the cyc so actors can see where they are going? If so, it would be cool to incorporate LED strips into the scenery of our next musical.
I'm no electrician so I figured I would ask some people that know what they are doing before I just do it. I am wondering if it is safe to run moving lights and some LEDs off of a dimmer rack (ETC Sensor3). Our current situation requires us to run extension cords up to the electric battens and plug them into Edison outlets on the stage floor. This is very inconvenient when we need to lower or raise the electrics and also because it is using up most of the outlets on stage level. I am wondering if I were to replace the Edison plugs on all the automated lights with stage pin ones, would that be safe for both the electrics inside the light and even the dimmers themselves? We have an ETC Element so I would just set a non-dim and grand master exempt for those specific channels that they are plugged into. We have 4 Vari-lite VL2500's, 6 random generic 36x10w LED Moving Heads that I found on eBay, and 4 Elation EPAR QA LED par cans. Thanks!
Edit: Writing this got me thinking... Would this method also work on something like a cheap LED strip that you put behind the cyc so actors can see where they are going? If so, it would be cool to incorporate LED strips into the scenery of our next musical.
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