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Need solutions for an antique stage lighting system
I do lights for a school that has an antiquated lighting panel (>50 yrs old) the size of a small car that is hard wired in place backstage. I want to insert small dimmer packs between the border fixtures and the panel so that i can use an xlr controller to dim them remotely. The connectors are all stage pin, and the border lights are arranged as follows in three rows: 3×15 lamps, 3×15 lamps, and 4×10 lamps. What is the most cost-effective way to do this? I was thinking of buying small, relatively cheap dimmer packs that i can hang overhead, but they all seem to be max 600W per channel and I would need 900W per color for each of the three roww of fixtures. I would also need adapters or new plugs for all the stage pin connectors. Can anyone offer a relatively cheap, creative solution?
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What type of frontlight do you have lighting the stage, and what is controlling those fixtures?
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There is no front light in house. I normally rent a combination of about 8 source 4 ellipsoidals and PAR lamps that I hang on crankstands, and I control these from a board out front. I have separate 20 amp circuits that I had installed for those. But I have no way of controlling the border strips, so I have have to either leave them on for the whole show, or not use them at all. If I could hang dimmer packs overhead next to the strips, I can just rent a bigger board and control everything. But I need to make sure this will work before I just start buying gear.
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Where are the dimmers that control those FOH 20amp circuits?
DS
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I rent them along with the FOH lights. They are 4x600W dimmers that I mount on the crankstands holding the fixtures.
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