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Thank you; that's rather what I thought. Stage Electrics and AC seemed the obvious choices and I have good contacts with both; I've always found Whitelight a bit pricey!

Hi guys; we are looking to change a college lighting rig from tungsten to LED (finally!). I need to obtain three quotes. Can anyone recommend companies with experience of doing this? My line manager wants quotes from manufacturers rather than distributors, but I suspect that may not be practicable.

We have a very basic setup with 8 JB Systems LED plano pars running off Nomad. When Nomad is connected there is a slight dip in intensity on all 8 at a frequency of 1 second. If Nomad is disconnected, they stop doing it. DMX line is terminated.

Thank you so much for the further replies. I certainly want to avoid audience fatigue, which was my main concern. The environment is late 16th century, urban exterior for one scene and early 20th century exterior for the other. I can cheat a bit with some light cast from off-stage house windows, but no street lighting as such.

Many thanks for all the suggestions so far. I am going to use 196 for the general cover, 132 for backlight, 147 and 118 for side cover. I've got some surrounding breakup in 119 and currently 117 for some fill in the faces from front, though I may try the 200 as suggested. All very traditional (I'm an old fogey, too). The 600s are a bit new-fangled for me, though I did use some 603 last week. I've also got a warm wash for the curtain call - probably 151.

Morning, all. I have lit many night time scenes but I now have to light for the first time in my experience a play that takes place entirely at night: Act I 11pm - 12pm, Act II 1am to about 1:30am. It is summer, and (conveniently) there is a moon behind the audience. The director wants the same lighting throughout. I need to find suitable colours for front general cover, back-light, and I also have some bar-ends I could use for some cross-light. I want to concentrate illumination in the centre of the stage, with breakups around that to give a dappled effect fading out to darkness. I also intend some warm backlight gobos to suggest light through the windows of a building. My question is what choice of colours should I use (generic rig) to avoid the audience getting tired (or bored!). Is a general cover in, for example, 117 going to be tiring on the eyes? Would some side light in 142 liven it up a bit? It needs to be dark enough for the characters plausibly to find it hard to see, but obviously the audience need to see what's going on.