Alright so I have a general question not so much related to theater but who knows it may be useful for other people.
Well here it goes, so in movies we've all seen where the lights go on in a sequence instead of all on at once. They have that "click" "click" "click" "click" noise as they come on. Any who do any of you electricians know how they go about doing this? I suppose you could have each individual light on it's own switch or dimmer / what have you. However that seems like quite a lot of work. Someone had mentioned that depending on how you wire it would create this effect.
So I guess if it was wired in series so the power has to go through each bulb before it gets to the next it would create that effect. But that seems like it would happen pretty fast and also would cause the bulbs to be dim?
Any who any ideas on how to create this effect?
Well here it goes, so in movies we've all seen where the lights go on in a sequence instead of all on at once. They have that "click" "click" "click" "click" noise as they come on. Any who do any of you electricians know how they go about doing this? I suppose you could have each individual light on it's own switch or dimmer / what have you. However that seems like quite a lot of work. Someone had mentioned that depending on how you wire it would create this effect.
So I guess if it was wired in series so the power has to go through each bulb before it gets to the next it would create that effect. But that seems like it would happen pretty fast and also would cause the bulbs to be dim?
Any who any ideas on how to create this effect?