sam.henderson Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 Hi all, Just wondered which you would go for. Am finding it very hard to get info on the ChromaBanks becuase the Pulsar Website is very unhelpful. Do you know how bright the ChromaBanks are? Have people had good results using them for cyc lighting? Many Thanks, Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiLD Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 should look quite nice...doesn't have the funny parawhatever lens though so your going to get hotspotting at the bottom or top but that looks nice on a sky cyc with color mix... :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomLyall Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 I think what ThaiLD is trying to say is that it doesn't have an asymmetric reflector (actually, they don't have a reflector at all...), so you can't get a decent throw 'down' a cyc. Anyway, from what I have seen of pixellines, you don't really get enough light out of them to use them for cyc lighting. They also prove a very expensive way of lighting a cyc, unless you absolutely needed full colour mixing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam.henderson Posted April 23, 2005 Author Share Posted April 23, 2005 Thanks for the info so far, I will look more into the throw's from both when I get a chance. I do wonder about brightness, Hopefully I am going to get a demo of both soon so that should help. Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiLD Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 sorry... my technical terminology stuff is kinda non-existent...:S thanks for the help in getting my ideas across... :blink:never tried LEDs to light cycs only ever done RGB color mixing using scoops with the 'assymetric' lenses and it didn't work very well... :o but thats just one experience... and the first time I actually had a cyc (no one in thailand seems to want to buy one...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 Sam, You can get a 20º (Horizontal) x 90º (Vetical) lense for the ChromaBank Mk IIs - this may help in the illumination of the cyc. Have you tried this URL? The JTE Pixelines have the same sort of thing going on, but this time with a film - see here. The JTE stuff has the advantage for me as you just give it juice and DMX - none of this ChromaZone melarky! Hope this helps.Stu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam.henderson Posted April 23, 2005 Author Share Posted April 23, 2005 Yep, thats deffinetly a plus, is it the JTE stuff that has a 16a thru conector as well or is that something else. Just learning about LED technology but is it possible to find out a brightness for the fixtures, I am guessing that it would change a bit for each colour. Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 The JTE stuff has the advantage for me as you just give it juice and DMX - none of this ChromaZone melarky!<{POST_SNAPBACK}> The ChromaBanks have the ChromaZone built in so you just feed the unit with power and DMX just like the Pixellines. Both units also have feed through connectors for both power and DMX, so you can daisy chain them. The main choice between the two is whether you prefer square or round pixels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted April 23, 2005 Share Posted April 23, 2005 An LED batten is not really the right tool for lighting a whole cyc and is quite an expensive way of doing it. If you want colour mixing I would look at Supercyc's, city colours / mini city colours or the PALCO floods if you must have LED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam.henderson Posted April 23, 2005 Author Share Posted April 23, 2005 Thanks for the ideas Rob, will have a look. There is no need to use LED just for the sake of it but I wanted good colour mixing. Thanks, Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robloxley Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 Thanks for the ideas Rob, will have a look. There is no need to use LED just for the sake of it but I wanted good colour mixing.Or for a cheap solution good old 4-cell asymmetric battens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 The best way to light a cyc is to use a bounce cloth behind a gauze. Combine over-head battens and groundrows in some senisible colours and you give yourself a huge range of colour mixing possibilities. Go see Lion King to see these techniques used very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.elsbury Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Question- bounce cloth being a white cloth behind a gauze, I take it? So that the fixtures point upstage and bounce backwards? Why is it done like that, may I ask? Why the gauze? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian kirby Posted April 28, 2005 Share Posted April 28, 2005 Here's a product that has yet to be mentioned, JTE 110 batten. This product uses 1watt leds instead of the smaller indicator LED's as well as introducing amber LED's into the game so you get loads more colours as you are now using red,blue,green and amber, this lets you adjust hue's amongst others. I have some photo's of these being used to light a cyc in the round if you would like them. Ian kirby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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