Depends on which light the OP gets, he could get something with a switching
power supply (i know you know that, just wanted to make it
clear to the op) or he could take two different phases of 110 and combine them to 208 (we do that a lot)
...I REALLY hope you're joking... making an
adapter to
plug one light into two different outlets to get 208vAC is EXTREMELY dangerous and also INCREDIBLY illegal. If one side were to come unplugged then the other side could still
electrocute someone, also 208v circuits are always
fed by a double pole
circuit breaker. Feeding 208vAC using two SINGLE pole
circuit breakers is against the
NEC and can cause serious injury if only one side trips there is still
power running through the overloaded circuits. If this is truly what you are doing, remind me to never go to your
theatre.
Also feeding movers with a
dimmer by setting it to
Non-Dim is also NOT good even if you have a
switch mode
power supply. Unless you are using a
Relay Module or a Constant
Circuit Module then the
power being
fed to the mover would still be a modified
sine wave and would cause problems. The problems may not be immediately noticed, but after a while the movers will start to fail and when you're stuff with a $3,000 bill to repair a busted mover you will wish you have just plugged it into a wall
outlet. I have seen several
PSU's die this way is a couple different
venue's I have worked. In fact MOST manuals for movers and things of this nature explicitly say in the
manual NOT to do this, in fact the only mover I know of that says you CAN do this is the
ETC Source 4 Revolution, and that is because
ETC specifically designed it to work off a
dimmer.
Martin, HES,
Vari-lite and
Apollo fixtures ALL say in their use manuals that you CANNOT do this with their products and that doing so will void your warranty.
