[SML] LED HOUSE LIGHTS - RETROFIT

[John Taylor]

Hey Keith,

It has been about 6 years as we did this right before I retired from the 
Zoo. We had a 400 seat theatre with over a hundred hanging (100 watt) 
PAR 38 cans and 10 (double 60 watt) A lamp wall sconces that we had to 
come with a solution to cut our electric costs. We tried the CFL route 
which I had told them would not work. I forced our maintenance 
electrician to find a LED source lamp that would work. He finally found 
a Phillips lamp that seemed like it would work (not cheap). The problem 
we ran into was our dimmers were an older LUTRON dimming system that did 
not like the CFL or LED lamps. The LED's would not not dim below about 
20%. We had been having problems with the dimmer rack anyway. Since it 
also handled the dimming for our small theatre/lecture hall and the 
Board Meeting Room when the Board Room started going crazy during during 
the Commission Meetings they finally agreed to replace the main dimming 
rack. To correctly handle the LED's it needed to be dimmers designed for 
the LED lamps. The replacement dimmers were not cheap but since they can 
programmed to handle tungsten, CFL or LED lamps, it was worth it. Sorry 
I don't have any model numbers but I would suggest talking to a good 
Phillips rep as it was them coming to the rescue.
You might have to get mini to standard adapters as I doubt if they have 
mini base lamps but they might.

We meet once upon a long time ago when I lived in Orlando and you were 
at TPAC.

Take care,
JT
Mostly retired Theatre Tech these days



On 2/11/2016 3:44 PM, Keith Arsenault via Stagecraft wrote:
> any one with experience  in replacing existing incandescent fixtures with dimmable LED fixtures ( or lamps ) for house lights ?
>
> i’d really like a straight “bolt on” replacement . . venue has 9 “cans” with 250w mini candelabra bases in parabolic reflectors
> all tied into the main dimmer rack . .   ( typical Strand house lighting controls / pendants )
>
> I don’t want to have to route DMX to new fixtures . . ( and unfortunately there’s no retrofit dimmable LED replacement for the mini candelabra lamps that I ‘ve found  , , ., yet )
>
> feel free to contact me directly with thoughts . .recommendations . . experiences .
>
> thanks . .
>
>
> Keith Arsenault
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