Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:47:24 -0700
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
From: The Independent Eye <eye-AT-independenteye.org>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] led stage lights


I think there's been a lot of past threads about lights, but for what 
it's worth:

Haven't had experience with LED's, not sure what one would gain.  We 
use mainly PAR 16's ("birdies") with 75w lamps; the black housing 
comes with a gel frame; you can buy clamps and even barn-doors extra. 
The lamps can be gotten in different spreads; obviously you don't 
have as much control as with a lensed instrument, but just between 
careful focus and using some black-wrap to cut down spill, it does 
quite a good job.  We use these on a 10x8x8 stage (square aluminum 
tubing, bolted); our current show (THE TEMPEST) has about 20 PAR 
16's, a few 3" Fresnels, and for stronger color washes two 500w 
Fresnels and several 300w PAR.  Whole thing (since these aren't all 
up at the same time, runs off a 15-amp household circuit.  Of course 
this is vast overkill for most shows, but I noticed that Lumen Coad 
uses six or eight PAR 16's for the pieces of his I've seen.

Wish I could get a lensed instrument that was that small and cheap, 
but haven't found it yet.  The better housings are about $50 each, 
not including the lamp, but you can find cheaper ones for about $20 - 
we just bought 5 at that price, and the gel frame holders are sticky, 
but they work ok.

Cheers-
Conrad B.

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