[SML] Dimmable LED lamps for house/work lights

[Bill Conner]

That is the only retro fit lamp product I have found that dims nearly
acceptably, and much better than others.  Still not quite as good as
an LED fixture designed to dim (which is still not quite as good as
tungsten halogen) but usually found acceptable.  Hopefully price has
come down - was around what a replacement fixture is today - $500-600.


On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 8:52 AM Kenneth Zinkl via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
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> I've been made aware that my district will be replacing the 250w PAR 38 lamps in all 4 of our auditoriums with LEDs. I'm trying to get out in from of facilities putting in whatever they find. I'm shooting for this product since we don't have to replace the fixture. https://www.cantousa.com/retro/  I spoke to them a few years ago at USITT and I believe they have a model/beam spread for almost every situation.
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> Ken Z
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> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 8:45 AM Bill Potter via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
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>> Howdy Listers,
>>
>> We’re hoping to get our facilities department to replace the LED lamps they put in (of course without consulting the theatre department…) the house/work lights in our black box theatre. This is the primary performance/classroom/rehearsal space for our department and used to have 300W mogul base lamps in the overhead fixtures. Once they couldn’t find 300s, they gave us 150W lamps and when they switched to LEDs, we got 18W lamps they gave even less useful light than the 150W incandescents.
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>> I’ve found 25w dimmable LED PAR38s but if anyone has a lead on something brighter, I’d love to know about them. (I’d really like to go to actual house light fixtures, but I don’t think they’ll go for the expense of replacing the existing housings.)
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>> Thanks in advance,
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>> Bill Potter
>> Arts Technical Director
>> St. Paul's School
>> Concord NH 03303
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