[SML] Paint shop lighting

[Duncan Mahoney]

Our paint shop (24' ceiling) was built about 15 years ago and is lit with high bay fixtures using MHC150/U/M/4K ALTO lamps.  Color rendering is good, but momentary power sags or outages cause 20 minutes of darkness until the lights restrike.  I think every fixture has had a ballast replaced at least once, and they usually "vent with flame" when they fail.

My plan is to eventually replace them with these.  We have a few up for testing purposes already.

https://store.yujiintl.com/collections/high-cri-led-technology/products/cri-max-cri-95-150w-high-bay-ufo-led-light-4000k-5000k

We just replaced the wall mounted worklights in the Bing theater with these

https://store.yujiintl.com/collections/high-cri-led-technology/products/cri-max-cri-95-200w-high-bay-ufo-led-light-4000k-5000k?variant=42569982148865

In the grand scheme of things, needing good color rendering in the paint shop is a hold-over from the days of "full-ish spectrum" tungsten lighting.  Increasingly the color of the painted object in the theater will be determined by the quality of the light coming from the LED fixtures, 

I wish ETC and others made some affordable wash fixtures for paint shop use with the same LEDs in them


Duncan Mahoney
Professor of Theatre Practice in Production
Technical Director
USC School of Dramatic Arts



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What are you all using to light paint shops these days?  Any particularly good/not super expensive high CRI high bay lights?  27' ceiling, around
7,000 square feet (that a guess).

Thanks!

--Sean
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