Lighting Equipment Suggestions

Kenton Yeager

YeagerLabs

2201 Tomassee Drive

Knoxville, TN 37920

 

To contact me:

E-mail: kenton@yeagerlabs.com

Phone: 865.368.1564

We have been researching and experimenting with off the shelf scaled lighting equipment for about 4 years now and here are our suggestions for different applications.

Cyd Knight at Barbizon in Charlotte NC can give you current price quotes on all packages. She helped us develop the systems.  Give her a call at—704 372-2122

 

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System 1         Rough Pricing— Under $1000

6—Par 20 (Birdies) 75 watt MFL

2—3” Fresnels (inkies) 100 watts

4-way Barn doors for Birdies and Inkies

1-Mini Ellipse 100 watts (For adding patterns)

1– Pattern Holder for Mini Ellipse

Lamps for all units (Don’t forget a couple of spares)

2-Plugging Strips

1-25’ 14 Gauge Cable (May change depending on where your outlets are located.) If you plugged in every unit listed above you would have only 750 watts, so you only need one standard outlet to power the entire lab.

1-Designer Swatch Book (your favorite brand)

No dimming Capability (just plug them into the plugging strips)

 

System 2       Rough Pricing— Under $3000

12—Par 20 (Birdies) 75 watt MFL

4—3” Fresnels (inkies) 100 watts

2-Mini Ellipse 100watts (For adding patterns)

6-5’ 14 Gauge Cable

2 –10’ DMX Control Cables

1 –25’ DMX Control Cables

Microclamps—1 for each lighting unit.

4-way Barn doors for Birdies and Inkies

Lamps for all units (Don’t forget a couple of spares)

Pattern Holders for Mini ellipses

3-Dimmer packs—Elation Pro Bars (This would give you 12 dimmers)

1-Scene Setter-24 Controller (A little room to grow)

3-Designer Swatch Books (your 3 favorite brands)

You will need 1 20 amp outlet. (One for each Dimmer pack.)

 

System 3       Rough Pricing— Under $7000

24—Par 20 (Birdies) 75 watt MFL

6—3” Fresnels (inkies) 100 watts

4-Mini Ellipse 100 watts (For adding patterns)

12-5’ 14 Gauge Cable

8 –10’ DMX Control Cables]

2 –25’ DMX Control Cables

Microclamps—1 for each lighting unit.

4-way Barn doors for Birdies and Inkies

Lamps for all units (Don’t forget a couple of spares)

Pattern Holders for Mini ellipses

6-2 foot sections of Pixel Range PixiBrink miniature LED strip lights to light the top and bottom of your cyc.

4-Dimmer packs—Elation  Pro Bars (This would give you 12 dimmers)

1-Scene Setter-48 Controller (This one has soft patch capabilities)

3-Designer Swatch Books (your 3 favorite brands)

You will need 2 separate 20 amp outlets.

System 4       Rough Pricing— Under $20000

24—Par 20 (Birdies) 75 watt MFL

6—3” Fresnels (inkies) 100 watts

6-Mini Ellipse 100watts (For adding patterns)

6-Chauvet LED Color Mixing PARs

2–Chauvet Profile Moving Lights

2–Chauvet Wash Moving Lights

6-2 foot sections of Pixel Range PixiBrink miniature LED strip lights to light the top and bottom of your cyc.

20-5’ 14 Gauge Cable

16 –10’ DMX Control Cables

2 –25’ DMX Control Cables

Microclamps—1 for each lighting unit.

4-way Barn doors for Birdies and Inkies

Lamps for all units (Don’t forget a couple of spares)

Pattern Holders for Mini ellipses

5-Dimmer packs—American DJ Pro Bars (This would give you 12 dimmers)

1-ETC Element (or the computer console of your choice)

8-Designer Swatch Books (2 each of the major 4 brands)

You will need 3 separate 20 amp outlets.

For gel, we suggest buying the designer size swatch books of color and cutting them up. They seem pricey at first, but it is a quick way to have every color out there available without spending A LOT of money buying a sheet of everything from each company

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