Good question on what is the inventory. Is there a RGBW+ replacement for the 8"
Fresnel also if on the market?
There is the CB' and
Mark (Osram) invented BTH lamp which is for a 6" normal
fresnel, going to get that same
color temperature the
Leko's have. This with 100% Color
rendering index. It's high output in needing more lamp replacements as similar to most high output
Leko's. There is no long life version on the market if using say a GLA or
HPL 575w/115vX type long life lamp in your
Leko's for the
Fresnel. This other than continuing with the BTN or which is also a robust fine lamp with 2,000 hour lamp life. The 8"
Fresnel at only 500 hour BVT (norm) has no long life lamp.
No matter what lamp to install - as hinted above, putting a perfectly good lamp into a bad lamp
socket or wiring won't last any longer and as tracked for moving light lamps, on average it's 100 hours less per perfectly good lamp installed into a bad lamp
socket each time until the lamp
socket completely fails or someone notices it.
8" or 6"
Fresnel... they will probably need new lamp sockets or re-surfacing (fairly easy to do) no matter which
fixture type and possible re-wiring, before considering re-lamping them to the norms or any perspective new high
color temperature lamps. Throwing perfectly good lamps into bad lamp sockets is a waste of money.
Again, at this
point I am not aware of a
LED 8"
Fresnel RGBW+ on the market. You can make up for such fixtures with more 6" Fresnels of some type possibly at like a $300.oo per
fixture cost. Cost of man/hours to replace or resurface a lamp
socket (normally about 90% of lamp sockets can be resurfaced if properly done,) plus a
halogen replacement lamp should be cheaper than the cost of a
LED fixture.
As I have seen on installs I even do, with
LED RGB not even RGBW+ TBA fixtures coming on the market more, you get the advantage of less mintinence, less lamp changes, and perhaps a 3:1
fixture price in doing so with lower
CRI. Do the bill in cost for three or 4 or 5 fixtures maintained. If man/hours are not tracked much less in cost if done properly. But on the other
hand if having to
send the lights to a qualified service center... might be 2:1 or more in expense.
What you loose in three less fixtures is the design
element. If you have less fixtures... your paint brush just got smaller. Yes, the
LED fixture is
RGB, but it's about the angle and amount of fixtures from different angles which will make the difference between art made, and just from that angle I can color mix.
My opinion in cost of going
LED (more long term cost effective and better,) the difference between having a light for a scene in position to show the talent crawing into a hole as per a special perhaps...
In going Hx-600 as best I could a few at a time at some
point, perhaps a middle
ground between going
LED and fixing what is on
hand is the best solution. Delist or parts some fixtures in balancing "upgrade" veses servicing and upgrading the lamps to which ever BTH or BTL. This assuming 6"
Fresnel talked about. Buy a few
LED fixtures as budgets allow, but maintain what you can in change over on a 1:1 basis. This so you doint loose design paint brushes and have time also to grow in
dimmer channels for the new light board which will also have to be budgeted for when otherwised based on a normal
dimmer system.
