Ynot Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 OK. from the now closed "£8k to spend at school" thread, digital lighting bars were mentioned - and I questioned the idea thus...Digital lighting bars??You mean bars with a DMX dimmer bolted on the end?and Dave replied:They do exsist!! See HERE!...pointing at the ETC Smart Bar.Well, yes, I've seen these, and would probably give that in a way these could be described as a 'digital lighting bar' but is that not perhaps going a little too far?It's a lighting bar with a DMX (yes, that's digital) self-contained dimmer incorporated... I may be going a bit too far, feeling this description is a tad OTT....Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Lewis Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 ...pointing at the ETC Smart Bar. "...fully digital triac dimmers" ;-) (Smart Bar manual). Perhaps Dave was thinking of so called 'Sine Wave dimming' (in reality a PWM method using carefully controlled IGBTs)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ynot Posted April 3, 2008 Author Share Posted April 3, 2008 Hmmm...But the context of the original reply giving these bars was that "Schools maybe should be going for digital lighting bars...." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokm Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Laymans term for LED Batten? Dare I say it... Digital Light Curtain? Only two other things I can think of at this hour that could be called 'digital lighting bar's' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMC Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Definitely sounds like a case of someone adding the word "Digital" to something without actually understanding what it means... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Oh I don't know. I see no problem describing them as 'digital'. Unless I'm much mistaken I'd imagine that the only analogue signals inside are the mains input and output (and the power supply for the logic). I'd be very surprised if the DMX was turned into an analogue signal and then fed to conventional dimmers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wuddy Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 ETC SMART BAR Overview >SNIP< SmartBar is also fully digital. >SNIP< Therefore, to call it a digital lighting bar seems a reasonable description for a professional or layman to make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ynot Posted April 3, 2008 Author Share Posted April 3, 2008 Therefore, to call it a digital lighting bar seems a reasonable description for a professional or layman to make.My point is just that is this what we would normally call just a beast...?It's certainly not a term I've seen bandied about, tbh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMXBandit Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 I know them as 'dimmer bars'. Hopefully I'll be getting one soon actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musht Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Digital sounds so eighties when CD was new and Digital was claimed to be so much better than analogue. Remember when everything, toothbrushes to lawnmowers, had Turbo appended to it, or the fashion before iPod fpr cars to have to spring a small I in the name , 1.1i ;-), to sell any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew C Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Now all you need is a blue LED. I'd give them a Digital Lighting Bar; I knew what he meant. Dimmer bar might be better... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve h Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 or the fashion before iPod fpr cars to have to spring a small I in the name , 1.1i ;-), to sell any. surely the I was for injection! getting a new car tomorrow :( ;) B-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wuddy Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Now all you need is a blue LED. I'd give them a Digital Lighting Bar; I knew what he meant. Dimmer bar might be better...The SmatBar is much more than a Dimmer bar, it's programmable! In our local hostilery the Snug is much better lit than the Tap Room, that's a Dimmer bar :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew C Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 This is going :( but I'm jealous, a snug and a tap? Almost all the pubs around here are "Brewers' Tudor" single bar monstrosities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Lewis Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Isn't the issue not so much whether the control technology is digital (which is what Paradim etc. seem to play on) but whether the actual dimming part is still a triac or using PWM with an IGBT - arguably a digital technique ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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