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<blockquote data-quote="TJ Cornish" data-source="post: 140895" data-attributes="member: 162">Re: LED lamps/PAR38They will make light, but don&#039;t expect dimming to work.&nbsp; LED bulbs require either full sine wave dimming, or &quot;reverse phase&quot; dimming; neither of these are available on any portable dimmer pack that I know of, short of a full ETC sensor rack, which seems an unlikely match for your PAR38 fixtures.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The good news is that if you&#039;re used to PAR38 output levels, these are easily attainable from fairly low-cost LED fixtures.&nbsp; I&#039;m not super up on the latest crop of low-cost LED fixtures, but I have been using a set of Chauvet SlimPar Pro RGBA fixtures for 4 years now, and they will EASILY exceed the output of a typical PAR38 bulb, especially if you use any gels in your conventional fixtures.&nbsp; Cost on these is&nbsp; ~$300ish, I believe.&nbsp; Warm white can be a challenge for LED fixtures, which is where conventional lighting still has the edge, but this is slowly changing as well; currently it just requires more $$$.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TJ Cornish, post: 140895, member: 162"] Re: LED lamps/PAR38 They will make light, but don't expect dimming to work. LED bulbs require either full sine wave dimming, or "reverse phase" dimming; neither of these are available on any portable dimmer pack that I know of, short of a full ETC sensor rack, which seems an unlikely match for your PAR38 fixtures. :) The good news is that if you're used to PAR38 output levels, these are easily attainable from fairly low-cost LED fixtures. I'm not super up on the latest crop of low-cost LED fixtures, but I have been using a set of Chauvet SlimPar Pro RGBA fixtures for 4 years now, and they will EASILY exceed the output of a typical PAR38 bulb, especially if you use any gels in your conventional fixtures. Cost on these is ~$300ish, I believe. Warm white can be a challenge for LED fixtures, which is where conventional lighting still has the edge, but this is slowly changing as well; currently it just requires more $$$. [/QUOTE]

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