I'll admit right out, my
system is elaborate, but saves ton's of time in not setting up and striking clip lights and assorted extension cords.
I have an
overhang in the SR
wing, with a suspended
catwalk below, roughly 15ft. above
deck. From that I mounted a DS to US set of
Kindorf channel steel, to which I hung running lights in N/C and Blue. There are 5
Altman MicroEllipses @75w in N/C as well as 5 PAR38 fixtures with blue 90w floods.
For US
crossover (behind our black-out
drop), mounted with beam clamps from the
grid, are 3 -
360Q 6x12's @575w lighting a path across the US floor as well as the US wall.
The
rail lights are the original DS/US box installed with the rigging
system in the 50's and consist of 16 - 34w A lamps.
All
home run to a
Colortran ENR 12x2.4kw
dimmer pack on the SR
catwalk, controlled by a
Leprecon LP612 controller mounted in a box on the DSR wall. The control allows for 5 zones of
clear for SR, 3 zones of blue SR, 1 for
crossover and 1 for
rail. All can be switched to run from a
Unison LCD station at DSR as well, though we don't use
Unison for running as a practice.
All equipment was surplus from assorted sources, so the only expense was running
power to the ENR, cabling to fixtures,
Kindorf and installation. We've had this
system in place about 8 years ?, with the MicroEllipses replacing the original
Colortran Mini-Ellipses.
Fancy and expensive if I had to do it with new gear, but it works very well.
Steve B.