UV Lighting Fixture

Doug Hart

Doug Hart

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The prom committee contacted me asking about lights.
They want to light the room with blacklights and they need to know what/how many to purchase.
Lighting budget is $600 or less.
Room is 60' x 60'

I've found these two fixtures, but not sure which would work best.

Four of these:
Chauvet LED Shadow DMX-512 Uv Blacklight


or Two of these:
Chauvet LED Par 56 24 UVB 24 x 1w LED UV Par


Opinions? other options?

Thanks !!!
 
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I agree with Shane. Why are you buying the lights? It's going to be tough to buy enough to get a good blacklight experience in a 60X60 room with a $600 budget. However, with that money, you should be able to rent enough to make it awesome.
 
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Also, if you are looking to just turn on the blacklights and leave them on, just go get several 2-bulb T-12 hanging fixtures from Lowes or Home Depot and order a box of 48" T-12 blacklight bulbs.

I am seriously not a fan of these LED panels to replace proper effect lighting. I was trying to buy some strobe lights a while back and I wanted the real pop that you get with a proper strobe bulb. All I could find in the lower end was these stupid LED panels and they just do not pop correctly for a real strobe experience. Likewise with the LED blacklight panels... they just don't have enough output.
 
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I also agree with renting instead of buying. But, they want to purchase something so they will have them for other events.
I have checked with rental companies around here and the only thing I can find are the 48" fixtures.
Those work fine, but they would probably need at least 10 of them, probably more.
Hanging and electrical becomes an issue at that point.
I've tried the AMDJ UV cannon in the past. I was not impressed with the output. Especially for as much power they draw and heat they produce.
 
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Something I noticed with my LED lighitng (MAC 101), is when I was using a dark blue/purple colour made my coloured gaff light up like a christmas tree... so maybe some high output fixtures might give you the same effect. Again nothing they could probably buy with the budget, but you could rent em... I just think you're going to get a lunch bag let down if you deploy 2, or 4 purchased fixtures...
Check out youtube for some real world users , situations, you might get a better idea of distances vs effect.
 
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Ok, I think I've finally talked them out of the idea.
There's just no way they are going to get what they are envisioning for that budget.
We're gonna go with standard LED fixtures (which I have access to) and forget the blacklight theme.
Thanks for your help everyone. Much appreciated !!!
 
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Shane Presley said:
Something I noticed with my LED lighitng (MAC 101), is when I was using a dark blue/purple colour made my coloured gaff light up like a christmas tree... so maybe some high output fixtures might give you the same effect. Again nothing they could probably buy with the budget, but you could rent em... I just think you're going to get a lunch bag let down if you deploy 2, or 4 purchased fixtures...
Check out youtube for some real world users , situations, you might get a better idea of distances vs effect.
Click to expand...

The same thing happens with my blizzard 3NX's. there's got to be a UV component to them.

Check the fog fluid bottle, the keyboard keys, and the pickups on the ibanez Jem. This is using just blue.

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