Mini-Strip manufacturer now defunct. Zip strip s half the price of R40 strip s? I don't think so. For a 6', 3-color unit, ($896-$1100 street) you have 30 lamps instead of 12. Lots more failure points, but lower wattage. Wiring, series. Uses less color media, but burns quicker. Space saver.
Mini-Strip manufacturer now defunct. Zip strip s half the price of R40 strip s? I don't think so. For a 6', 3-color unit, ($896-$1100 street) you have 30 lamps instead of 12. Lots more failure points, but lower wattage. Wiring, series. Uses less color media, but burns quicker. Space saver.
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For a 6', 3-color unit, ($896-$1100 street) you have 30 lamps instead of 12. Lots more failure points, but lower wattage.
They are freaking heavy though!
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See the thread http://www.controlbooth.com/forums/...-position-lighting-cyclorama-mr16-strips.html. See also this and subsequent posts. And http://www.controlbooth.com/forums/lighting-electrics/27766-led-cyc-light-help.html . SteveB used to be our power user of MR16 strips for cyc lighting, but I believe he has gone, or is going soon, to LED strips.
How big of a cyc / backdrop are we talking about? Do you use your R40s top and bottom or just top? One or two rows?
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Attached is a photo of our 30x50 filled white cyc, lit with double hung L&E MR16 strips, 75w flood lamps on top, 75w spots on bottom, 6 units across (12 total, 9,000 watt load per color). The color is R125. If we use a color without built in diffusion, we add R104.
The units are about 3ft downstage of the cyc and 3-5ft above the top of the cyc. The borders determine how high we need to trim the cyc lighting electric.
You are correct that MR16's make terrible ground row units as the beam doesn't start to spread out until you are 3-4 ft up the cyc. They work pretty well as top units though.
SteveB isn't using a ground row. The cyc electric is double-hung, tandem. The top row of fixtures to light the top half of the cyc are FL; the bottom row just underneath are SP, as they have the "far" shot to the lower half of the cyc.
I believe he's stated in the past that he uses installs the silk with the lines horizontal, so that it spreads the light vertically.
If a production requires a ground row, I believe he has a set of Econo-cycs for that.
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SteveB isn't using a ground row. The cyc electric is double-hung, tandem. The top row of fixtures to light the top half of the cyc are FL; the bottom row just underneath are SP, as they have the "far" shot to the lower half of the cyc.
I believe he's stated in the past that he uses installs the silk with the lines horizontal, so that it spreads the light vertically.
If a production requires a ground row, I believe he has a set of Econo-cycs for that.
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