Hope I don't forget anything/one.
I forgot to mention that crowds don't often go above 300 people. And when they do I often partner with a budding company for lighting. This is more for the smaller shows. These fixtures would cover pretty much 80-90% of my work. For the rest I'm happy to call our friends over there.
Please read this paragraph carefully.
No offense but I believe this post is getting all PSW, LEDs are specified and I feel like I clearly specified why. What I really wanted to know was how others determine how much power/light they need to blind a certain crowd size or if y'all are just bringing all you have or can fit on your truss/power. I wasn't kidding in the OP, I often deal with between 8 and 11 people on stage at once. And they need/want 7 to 10 monitors on stage, backline, and somehow always need to charge their phones/pads to update social media and/or read scores to play off.
On top of this I also need to get the PA, FOH and often (my) DJ equipment going on the same circuit. Imagine having all of this and finding out the hard way that you are sharing power with a microwave in the kitchen. This can eat the roughly 3600w/16a very quickly. Believe me I recently tripped a breaker for a first time and am trying to keep it these way. I was pushing around 800 watt of total light output at that time. That's why I wanted to know whether 180w on blinders would do me a favor or if it would just give people the idea that I wanted to have some but couldn't really do it right
Having said all that I understand that it is often hard/impossible to judge over the interweb how much I know and what kind of considerations I have or haven't taken. I can be guilty of this my self but I try to avoid it.
@Jeff
The reason I don't want halogen blinders is simple power draw, If I wasn't concerned about this I would simply repurpose the 300/500w halogens I have as blinders.
They are mostly there to add emphasis on certain parts of certain songs. Blinders are kind of a "new" concept in the style of music I provide for the most.
I also wondered whether the blinders wouldn't seem wimpy next to the other fixtures. However it seems like.I won't be getting anything over 30-40 watt total output for the PARs. I was eyeing some 70watt fixtures though but am afraid of.this very problem so will probably stick with these. The higher output ones are a slightly less known brand though. So a little wary about these and I feel harder to justify than the major brands.
@Scott
Quick maths gives me almost 500w of power draw for those. They look great but 500w is too much for me... I can get away with less though because i'm mostly indoors.
@tim
Mostly the same as what I said to Scott only your pushing even more watts.
For now I believe this thread can close
Edit: I'm not kaf or anything, and is maybe a little overboard. But I am pretty confident now in the fixtures I mentioned in the OP and this is mainly because of this thread.
If anyone feels like telling me how they size there rigs or has other fixture suggestions then please do share. But please keep.in mind... Im not plugging into nuclear powerplants quite the opposite
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