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Not really a big audio gig, but cool anyway!

Postby jlepore » Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:35 am

I now remember why I'm not a lighting guy, but got to admit, it was cool doing this. The amount of on-the-fly designing was crazy, and the schedule was absolutely off the hook! The end result is pretty cool though...

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Re: Not really a big audio gig, but cool anyway!

Postby airickess » Fri Nov 30, 2012 5:27 pm

Those types of gigs can be frustrating with the limited space, art director design requirements and time constraints in a public place like that, but they can also be rewarding when it is all done.
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Re: Not really a big audio gig, but cool anyway!

Postby jlepore » Sun Dec 02, 2012 5:21 pm

The director/designer was cool. It was the technology getting in our way.

Using a conventional dimmer rack for the big trees (48 channels of 2400W each) to drive LED strings that barely pulled a watt gave us all kinds of problems. They just can't fade right when there's not enough load on them. As you can see, I managed to fix the problem with some hardware changes so they can fade smoothly through the bands. Had the same issue on the small trees, even though those 1200W/ch dimmers were made for LEDs. It was a very long install!
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Re: Not really a big audio gig, but cool anyway!

Postby airickess » Sun Dec 02, 2012 5:59 pm

What hardware changes did you make?
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Re: Not really a big audio gig, but cool anyway!

Postby RBIngraham » Sun Dec 02, 2012 8:48 pm

The old theatre trick is to throw a par can on each circuit to give it a real load. Of course if you don't have a place to hide them, then hiding a 1K light out of sight could be a real pain.
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Re: Not really a big audio gig, but cool anyway!

Postby Butch » Sun Dec 02, 2012 10:17 pm

American DJ sells a small dummy load for use with led or strobe lights they seem to work good
Don't need 1ks even a 5 watt lamp will work on most dimmers

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