[SML] UV light Source

[Ford Sellers]

It really depends on the effect, and cost that you're looking for.
If $50 each is your budget... Stick with those.  YMWV, but at least you'll have something.
If you're looking for something a little more versatile, we (Chauvet) have our COLORDash Hex fixtures (I believe the DJ line has equivalents, as well), which use 6-die RED, Green, Blue, Amber, Cool-White, and UV emitters.  These would be able to be used as both color mixing pars, and UV fixtures (and let me tell you, if you mix the Red and UV, the effect is an incredible "Hyper-Pink" that does not exist in nature, and is SUUUUUUUUUUUPER Cool).

A few of our friendly competitors have similar fixtures.
Caveat (for ours, and the competitions)... the "UV" in these is right at the bottom of the visual spectrum (like 380-390nm), so the output is somewhat visible, but things do fluoresce brightly when "lit" by these.

We are also launching a new Series of Pars at LDI in the Ovation line.
There is a UV variant (360-365nm) which has an incredible effect with virtually no visible output, but is likely to out of your pricepoint.
These are more in-line with traditional WildFire units.  So, you'll only need one or two to light your stages.  If you want to make them wider, we recommend Luminit diffusers, as the Rosco Opti-Sculpt is not as UV resistive (we found it yellowed after a couple of hours, where the Luminit doesn't).  I believe that Rosco is improving this, though.  If tghat's the case, we may include one of their asymmetrical filters in the box, as at over 100° coverage angle, the effect is incredible for short throw applications.

Anyway, I hope that helps!

-Ford

-----Original Message-----
From: Stagecraft <stagecraft-bounces at theatrical.net> On Behalf Of Jon Ares via Stagecraft
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2018 12:53 PM
To: Stagecraft Mailing List <stagecraft at theatrical.net>
Cc: Jon Ares <jonares at arescreative.com>
Subject: Re: [SML] UV light Source

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 9:37 AM Tom Grabowski via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>
> I have a couple of productions this year looking at possibly using UV 
> lighting for effects during the productions. None really have the 
> budget for any of the higher end UV light sources like Rosco's Miro 
> Cube® UV365. Does anyone have any experience with the UV flood lights 
> I have seen on Amazon like this one:
> https://tinyurl.com/y7gvy5zt

That might work - if you go that way, please report back.  FWIW, we bought a couple of these last year - https://www.amazon.com/ADJ-Products-UV-COB-CANNON/dp/B00HWTAC8M/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1538239800&
Worked surprisingly well - first in a black box environment, and later for a dance rental on the mainstage.

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Jon Ares
www.arescreative.com

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