G/046 Lighting Rig

Power

The rig eats a lot of juice: It is fed from two 32amp Ceeform plugs on the wall (same wall as fire escape). According to the Mains Circuits page, both are on the Yellow Phase.

Dimmers

Pulsar status dimmers: (2 of)

8-pin Din analogue signal in, 0-10v
With pre-heat (good for not shocking cold bulbs if they suddenly get turned on, this increases lamp life.
6 5amp channels each.
If they're buzzing, they're happy!

Eurolite DPX-405: (1 of)

DMX512 control Via 3pin XLR. Pass Through.
4 5amp channels each.
No Preheat.
13a Plug currently.

Desk

Zero88 Sirius24 see Lighting Desk

Hardware

On the ceiling is a home-made steel pipe frame, with some IWB's here and there (IWB's not connected).

Cables

Box of various lengths of 15a in Techie room.

Patching

IEC Panels feed the plugs on the ceiling.
IEC leads from dimmers. MAX 5a (1Kw).

Lights

Furse fresnel: (2 of)

Old fresnels.

Selecon Asymetric floods: (2 of)

Not old! - still incredibly popular as of 01/10
Asymetric! not even spread of light. spread gets better, the further they are from the wall. Remember, big side at bottom.
Use to light back walls evenly, rather than a large "splodge" of light at the top, and not much at the bottom.
The above makes them very useful when doing Chroma_key work.

Selecon Symetric Floods: (1 of)

As Asymetric, but even.

Berkley Colortran Floods: (1 of)

Compact, yet bright.
With bardoors.

Strand patt 123 Fresnels: (2 of)

The funny egg shaped ones.

Strand patt 223 Fresnels: (2 of)

Adjustment control hidden behind bardoors.

Pole-Op Fresnels: (2 of)

With rotating barndoors
adjust Pan, Tilt & Beam Via knobs.

Gels

We have some.
Colour Filters, Mainly Very Vivid. Red, Blue (Various shades), Pink, Purple, Green, Yellow...
Scrim - looks like tracing paper, but made of plastic and not nearly as flamable. Like gels, will melt if touching the glass of a flood. Use this to soften light - you can also put over only some of the fixture (called half scrim) to soften light e.g near to the source only. Very useful, but underused.