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 - 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.