If you use
altman 360q's, have you found either to be better suited for your needs? I see the 754 has a little higher temp, but the 755 lasts a lot longer but is not rated as high in lumens, and they are about the same price. I presently use HP575s in mine, but want something a
bit brighter for a general
downstage wash. Thoughts?
By the way, HP verses HX is the same thing for the most part in non - pre
ANSI lamp. Both are normally the same thing in at times different
filament structures, but often just different band. Still down to if you have a GLC / GLA verses FLK/FLK -LL version in use as per today's what you would buy. The GEC/GLA would have a more efficient
filament than the FLK thus more light. Would like to know what brand made your "HP575's" in directly knowing what you want more punch out of. But still, as you cited, the longer life lamps are
dimmer in
color temperature. On the other
hand on a
stage with similar or lower in doing so... bright as concept at least given more efficient
filament.
Stuff to work on in the goal of staying 575w for the inventory, than having that 750w at times needed like you cite for more
intensity and or for
gobo use. Lower the better you can keep with, the more head room you have for use where you need more punch.
Mention this past week that I made not just
gobo holders for 2Kw Mole Ellipsodals, but also had to punch the gobos for them? That's when one needs a big prop light and also wants 2Kw worth of punch in it as a
Leko. Too bad they didn't tell me before last minute that they couldn't find any in-stock gobos that they wanted. 4"
gate for the
fixture, I downsized it for like a 3" "A" size
pattern holder in still having to make the gobos for it. Had they done their R&D, I could have easily made the 4"
pattern holder and
gobo for it. None the less, this show decided that in competing with moving lights, that only a 2Kw and also prop in size
Leko could do something - granted I will have strangled a few people if they decided on the rotatator version as Monday morning after I spent all weekend inventing even single
gobo holder with
dichroic heat filter thing for it. Yea could do, but not happy in a what you didn't know type of thing. Could have done the
gobo rotatator thing but will not have been a happy camper in starting over. Instead I just had to make the gobos for the show out of like 20
gauge steel. Good thing I have a hole punching
arbor punch.
Off
track in reply- but at some
point in me pointing out a 4"
gate to the Mole Ellipsodal, they wanted shop gobos for it in not buying anything. Nothing in the shop was sufficient so I was to make one, this following the concept of making it rotate in asking for. The heck do you want in sure can do but Man-hours even if salary is adding up in time left to get done before the show leaves.
So that's what I'm like these days. Designer wants what? Sure I make for them. On the other
hand that's also where the designer in not sure about what they want will agree to a 3"
gate to a 4"
gate fixture in even later making gobos to the
fixture that otherwise didn't work out before too late. Rock and
Roll it...
Lost much of the efficiency of the light, but I did invent A' size
gobo holders with
dichroic heat sinks to them for mounting normal A' size gobos within a 2Kw
fixture. More
power.... Just had the designer pre-thought what he wanted... just will have been a 4"
gate and better
fixture.
Pre-thought in if wanting more output from the
downstage wash - whole concept of what you have and what it's lamped with. Than say if the rest is long life, perhaps these are high output in citing the
color temperature and higher output. Perhaps sufficient but same wattage.
Than if needed, the higher wattage options. Hope further refined in more wattage isn't always best. SEE past FEL posts also. Where possible, go high lamp life for the bulk, than have options above that.
