[SML] Really bright red LED light source

Steve Boone sboone at bgsu.edu
Tue Apr 30 16:57:18 UTC 2024


Jeez!  Those poor old theatres!  Sliding under air ducts to move around and never being able to stand up in the catwalks... always thinking about what to do if a plank snaps that has been sawn most of the way through by an idiot installer to put in a speaker or duct in a poorly planned space… seeing that two students had walked along some rigid conduit runs to write their names on the stage left wall about 30’ above the stage…. I’m always surprised that we didn’t have any big disasters, given human being’s proclivity for making mistakes and having accidents.

It was 94 Strand 22xxs (the ones with the big plastic pull rings on the shutter handles instead of the little burn-you-quick sideways knobs).  The college took pity on us because sixteen Strand Century 6x16s had just been stolen, knocking our usable ERS stock down by about a third.

I thought we got 40 Altman Shakespeares (twenty 50 degree, and twenty 40 degree)—the early models with the glass reflectors.  Seems like that weird storage hallway wasn’t big enough for 80.  Oh well, memory is the first to go!

How did the Astera LED tubes look?  Or, if you haven’t tried them out yet, please lemme know.  My limited experience with fills leaves me thinking the smaller ones are all kind of dim.  I gotta say I’m a fan of bright fixtures, and don’t like piddling around with things that are so dim you have to lower the intensities of everything else to compensate.  
Steve  

> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:55:39 -0400
> From: Sean McCarthy <seanrmccarthy at gmail.com>
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> Oh, I remember....something like 196? Strand 22xx lekos spread over three
> spaces.  That following summer was when you purchased 80(?) Shakespeares,
> right?  Talk about a quantum leap!
> 
> --Sean
> 
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 11:55?PM Steve Boone via Stagecraft <
> stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> 
>> Some shows just never die!
>> We didn?t really have a lot of lighting instruments back then, and those
>> 1960s and 1970s 500w Fresnels were the best BGSU had.
>> They lit up every seam in the masonite facing.
>> Steve
>> 



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