paulears Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 Our stock of old lighting kit is considerable and our large fly galleries have become a graveyard of working but older kit. We were all in very early today so we found 30 par cans 8 t-spots and some 243bp’s and some cct ails with break up gobos in them. Two complete new Lx bars now up and running some foh ow from the t-spots and the 243s on the advance truss as audience light. The breakups work too. You know what? The led washes are great but the par cans look very different and I’d forgotten how nice. The electricity bill has taken a hike with another 44k but it’s nice to see it all back in action. Quite a lot of different versions of white though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alistermorton Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 There's something about a PAR can for punch, isn't there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandall Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 How did you persuade light to come out of the front of the T-spots? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 Ssshhh, listen carefully. Can you hear a strange noise coming from Paul’s place? It’s sort of high pitched whining noise. I know what it is - it’s the little wheel in the leccy meter spinning faster than it ever has before! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 How did you persuade light to come out of the front of the T-spots? It's simple - whenever you want the stage to get brighter, you just turn the T-Spots off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbotsmike Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Ssshhh, listen carefully. Can you hear a strange noise coming from Paul's place? It's sort of high pitched whining noise. I know what it is - it's the little wheel in the leccy meter spinning faster than it ever has before! It replaces the high pitched whining of the Switch Mode PSUs in the LED stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted August 20, 2018 Author Share Posted August 20, 2018 Four t-spots either side out front and light does come out! Enough to be useful. I didn't expect this much, but worth doing. To retain the antiquity, I also transferred the dust and rust in touched. Cleaning before putting them up would have helped, but I figured optional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stagemanagement Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Ssshhh, listen carefully. Can you hear a strange noise coming from Paul’s place? It’s sort of high pitched whining noise. I know what it is - it’s the little wheel in the leccy meter spinning faster than it ever has before! Don't be daft, Paul will have had the sense to feed a piece of card down the meter to jam the wheel..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandall Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 At one venue I looked after the FoH rig was eight T-spots. I finally gave them away & replaced them with 2nd-hand axial Sil-30s - light levels on stage promptly doubled. The problem then became the short life of the CP77 lamps, largely solved when I realised that if they were fitted with the filament below the supporting strut, rather than above, they were less likely to explode when focussing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave m Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 I remember doing a summer clean and PAT session where the previous guy had obviously never cleaned or greased any fixtureThe dirt that came off was astounding, as was the amount of light gain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_s Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 T84s somewhat better than T64s...T64s had two sets of shutters (one set straight edge, one set combed edge) like P264s.Sils better than both, but not without drawbacks. I never really used the axial version.I remember being quite surprised to come across some quite effective Selecon profiles in the mid nineties when you would mostly have seen Sil 30, cantata and harmony profiles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whiskers Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 T64s 84s its worth finding genuine monoplane T11 for T spots somehow the biplane improved 1K lamp focused infra red on to the back of the first lens, and it cracked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigclive Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 There's nothing wrong with PAR cans. They may be inefficient, but they provide a good wash of broad spectrum light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart91 Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 There's nothing wrong with PAR cans. They may be inefficient, but they provide a good wash of broad spectrum light. I'm sure they'll come back into fashion again. I'm looking forward to blowing the dust off my parcan graveyard and putting them back out to work when that happens. I suspected there might be a resurgence in popularity after Kanye used a gazillion of them at Glastonbury a couple of years ago. Maybe too soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ynot Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 There's nothing wrong with PAR cans. They may be inefficient, but they provide a good wash of broad spectrum light.AND they make a great cooking source for woks atop a castle wall..... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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