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RobinJacobsson

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LED's as front light
« on: February 11, 2016, 07:07:30 AM »

Hi, is it possible to run LED's as front light?

It's for a band with 5 people and the distance is 4-5 meters I guess.

I was looking at this one, would 2 of those each side do the job?
http://www.thomann.de/se/cameo_flat_pro_par_can_7.htm

A little bit cheaper than this one...

http://www.thomann.de/se/cameo_flat_pro_par_can_12.htm
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Cailen Waddell

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Re: LED's as front light
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2016, 07:32:07 AM »

Yes it's possible. 

It depends both on distance and width of coverage.   The Thomann site does not list the dispersion.  Both beam and field angles...  These, combined with some geometry will be able to tell you if they work.

It also depends on your desired level of color rendering.  Again sufficient specs are not listed tondetermin the wavelength of the different colors, so without first hand experience it's hard to know how good a white can be made. 


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Re: LED's as front light
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2016, 10:21:56 AM »

Yes it's possible. 

It depends both on distance and width of coverage.   The Thomann site does not list the dispersion.  Both beam and field angles...  These, combined with some geometry will be able to tell you if they work.

It also depends on your desired level of color rendering.  Again sufficient specs are not listed tondetermin the wavelength of the different colors, so without first hand experience it's hard to know how good a white can be made. 


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Ah okay! Thanks for your answer! Right now we have 4 PAR64 on each side and the singer and owner of the band is not a technician fan so I have to make the research haha :P

He says that we could go for LED's if it will work as a front light, with a warmer kind of white.
And I heard that RGBWA would do the job (WA) for front.
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Re: LED's as front light
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2016, 10:26:55 AM »

What lamps are in the 64s? Cp61? 62?


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Re: LED's as front light
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2016, 04:34:05 PM »

 RGBAW LEDs can do the job if they are bright enough. For example, four blizzard fab5 pucks will light the front of a 16' wide stage pretty well.


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Re: LED's as front light
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2016, 01:30:46 PM »

I'd go with some variable or warm white fixtures for white, and RGBA, RGBW, RGBAW, or RGBAW+UV for color.  The Chauvet Pro 2QuadZoomVWTour for example or E-190. 
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Re: LED's as front light
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2016, 04:01:18 PM »

RGBAW LEDs can do the job if they are bright enough. For example, four blizzard fab5 pucks will light the front of a 16' wide stage pretty well.


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Thanks, but I can't find the Blizzard Fab 5 here in Sweden. Looks like they're only available in US.
Can you give me more options that I can find and order from Thomann ( http://www.thomann.de/gb/index.html )?

And I have another question, to avoid creating more threads.
We will control all DMX-units from a lightdesk, we have 4 Coeff MP250 moving heads and some LED DMX + the LED frontlight as we're speaking about right now.

What lightdesk would do the job? We will run the backtracks from a PC and Cakewalk (the playlist) so I will create a MIDI-track in each song that will send information to the lightdesk to change scene/chase.

I have been looking at the Stairville DMX Master 3 FX. I don't need something big, I would rather buy something cheap and small-sized. What is the difference between DMX Master 2 and 3? Do I need the FX?
I just want to make my own scenes and chases and call them from the computer.
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Re: LED's as front light
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2016, 05:51:41 PM »

Blizzard "HotBox 5" replaced the "Fab 5".
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Re: LED's as front light
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2016, 06:15:45 PM »

Blizzard "HotBox 5" replaced the "Fab 5".

Quick, minor (I hope) topic swerve...
Mark, have you used both, the fab5 and the hotbox 5? Are they channel and parameter equivalent ?


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Re: LED's as front light
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2016, 07:02:56 AM »

Blizzard "HotBox 5" replaced the "Fab 5".

I can't find Blizzard's products at all in Sweden. Would appreciate if you could name a few other units that's worth looking in to!
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