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 28 Mar 2005, 5:50 PM
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Hey guys any one know a good source of cheap fairy lights (pref in yellow/orange) doing Wizard of Oz and want to light up the yellow road.
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28 Mar 2005, 5:53 PM
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 They call me Mr Administrator, Sir!  Group: Admin Posts: 1,712 Joined: 26-December 02 From: South Wales, UK Member No.: 2 |
Tried Hyper Value? Ok, so its not the season now, but normally around christmas they stock all mannor of single colour fairy light sets.
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28 Mar 2005, 6:13 PM
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Tom
The other thing you could use is duralight, it comes in all sorts of colours, and as its in a tube is more protected against people standing on the bulbs. Its not cheap though, so might not be what you want in that respect. Ben -------------------- Lighting software for Mac: Chameleon is currently in development, with regular progress releases. Supports USBDMX.COM, and Enttec Pro interfaces.
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28 Mar 2005, 6:45 PM
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I think there is some guidlines about what types of fairy lights you use, im sure they have to be low voltage.
We had some fairy lights fitted into some scenery flats, the safety inspecter asked us to remove them because they operated on 240v. vince |
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28 Mar 2005, 7:00 PM
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There is http://www.lyco.co.uk/ but I didn't have a hard look. I have seen some not long ago though.
Also as ben said but a little bigger would festooning to compleatly over sized if it was dimmed? -------------------- Excuting change in this place is like trying to knock down a windmill with a mug of soup.
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28 Mar 2005, 7:24 PM
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Thats a pain, so I'm looking at a 12v set with transformer, any one know of a issue running them off a switch channel btw?
Thanks Tom |
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28 Mar 2005, 7:26 PM
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well you could use 24v.
I believe you could run them of a switch pack. |
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28 Mar 2005, 7:39 PM
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They call me Mr Administrator, Sir! Group: Admin Posts: 1,712 Joined: 26-December 02 From: South Wales, UK Member No.: 2 |
If you're running at 12v, why not use a birdie transformer instead of the mains transformer? (Obviously checking that they can handle the current)
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28 Mar 2005, 7:50 PM
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Good point. Yeah should have said before the yellow brick road will be painted on flats so it is unlikly to get walked over!
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29 Mar 2005, 12:19 AM
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QUOTE If you're running at 12v, why not use a birdie transformer instead of the mains transformer? (Obviously checking that they can handle the current) Electronic lighting trafos can be like dimmers , may have a minmum load, will say something like 20-60 W. QUOTE (TomBrien @ 28 Mar 2005, 8:50 PM) Good point. Yeah should have said before the yellow brick road will be painted on flats so it is unlikly to get walked over!  Yellow LEDs, some clear heatshrink, some resistors, 560R per LED on 12V, soldered to LED leg, clear heatshrink over, wire resitored LEDs in parralell, long leg of LED goes to +, use 12V `wall wart` to power. Attach LEDs with hot melt glue which will defract light a bit better. |
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29 Mar 2005, 12:39 AM
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I noticed AJS in Ringwood have some fairy lights for not many £££s (about £5+VAT) in their 2005 clearout PDFs - more info is on there site, AJS
They seem to be getting rid of alot of stuff! A bit  mind...Stu -------------------- It's so easy when you know the rules...
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29 Mar 2005, 7:26 AM
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What about some rope lighting?
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29 Mar 2005, 7:56 AM
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QUOTE (the kid @ 29 Mar 2005, 9:26 AM) What about some rope lighting? Nah I really want small lights easier to attach Re: LED yep got large amounts of experience with LEDs just don't want to spend a day installing them into some flats as we would be talking at least 100 LEDs |
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29 Mar 2005, 11:22 AM
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maybe the way to go would be some batery operated LED xmas lights, you can get them in yellow.
This way you wouldnt have to feed hot power to them you could get stage crew to trigger the lights on cue. Its also better as far as saftey goes. If you want complete controll you can buy yellow LED xmas lights that run on 12 or 24v transformers. vince |
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