mtodd2qq
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Sorry long winded background info. We have a small auditorium built in 1907. at one point some one installed a 12 dimmer Dove pack into the space. We have one DMX 5 pin line from the board from the back of the house ran along the wall to the dimmer for control. From the dimmer we have 12 hardwired lines to our only lighting position, a beam running across the front of house area. House lights are a light switch, work lights are a light switch. Nothing but those 12 positions are on the dimmer.
Someone before me hung 4 LED Pars along side the traditional instruments, ran a cord from the back wall for power and is controlling them with a show baby.
The dimmer pack is dying as they do. Our facilities head has done some research and asked me a simple question
Instead of replacing the dimmer pack, why not put in a breaker box, and replace all the incandescent instruments with LEDs that dont need a dimmer, and then control them with that little orange box up there.
Anyone have any experience with this or advise they want to offer if they have? Its never going to be a true theatrical space, they wont be doing a renovation anytime soon, they wont be adding additional lighting positions. This seems like a simple solution and a no brainer, which is why it has me worried I am missing something. thanks
Someone before me hung 4 LED Pars along side the traditional instruments, ran a cord from the back wall for power and is controlling them with a show baby.
The dimmer pack is dying as they do. Our facilities head has done some research and asked me a simple question
Instead of replacing the dimmer pack, why not put in a breaker box, and replace all the incandescent instruments with LEDs that dont need a dimmer, and then control them with that little orange box up there.
Anyone have any experience with this or advise they want to offer if they have? Its never going to be a true theatrical space, they wont be doing a renovation anytime soon, they wont be adding additional lighting positions. This seems like a simple solution and a no brainer, which is why it has me worried I am missing something. thanks