Do you not have to change the bulbs if you get LED lighting effects instead of halogen? (probably a stupid question but just want to make sure before I spend 1000 bucks on new lights)
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Marcus welcome to the forums. To answer your questions no you never have to change LED bulbs. in fact LEDs on average have a lifespan of 50,000 to 100,000 hours. that is years and years of being on 24 hours a day nonstop for years straight. and if a led does go bad you Would have to replace the circuit board that holds the LEDS rather then the individual diode. if you wanted to change an individual LED you would need to re solder the diode to the circuit board. once you buy LED you don't need to worry about bulbs for years after. Sincerely,
Hi, i'm new in this forum and i'm upgrading my lightshow from scanner to moving head but i need to know about LED lights because i just got a intimidator Spot MH with HTI Lamp and i'm not sure if the new moving head with LED would be bright enough compare to discharge lamp. should i keep this HTI MH for a while or sell it and get LED MH?
I can only hope your still monitoring this board and your post. This depends on your setting and situation, don't be fool, by others, I'm a solo act D.J. and as such does high school gyms to club scene, and just about everything in between. L.E.D. is the way to go, you will be amaze at the X move, I've been using this light for 3 weeks now, and just the thought of never having to change bulbs alone is worth the price. Vs changing bulbs. In one club I do on Fridays I have 3 DJ squeeze or something like that, every other month the bulb blows. at $25 plus per bulb not very good on profit margin for me or the owner. Finally I said I'm going to let every bulb blow in every fixture and replace not the bulb but the entire fixture with an L.E.D. replacement.
LED bulbs should not need to be replaced. The way ADJ is making them, you'd need to replace the entire board that contains the LED's.
LED's have multple advantages over halogen or incandescents. The first one being "the LED's don't burn out". The second being that the LED's generate a LOT less heat. The third, and this is the kicker: the LED fixtures take a LOT less power!
While you end up spending MORE for LED fixtures, you get your money worth AND can load a lot more onto a single circuit. Doing the club and small venue thing where they don't understand things like a sepparate power transformer for sound and lighting, or at least a panel with 100+ amps for the entertainment, this becomes a BIG issue.
I would suggest you ask a LOT of questions to try to figure out which lights are best for your application before spending.
Enjoy!
LED's have multple advantages over halogen or incandescents. The first one being "the LED's don't burn out". The second being that the LED's generate a LOT less heat. The third, and this is the kicker: the LED fixtures take a LOT less power!
While you end up spending MORE for LED fixtures, you get your money worth AND can load a lot more onto a single circuit. Doing the club and small venue thing where they don't understand things like a sepparate power transformer for sound and lighting, or at least a panel with 100+ amps for the entertainment, this becomes a BIG issue.
I would suggest you ask a LOT of questions to try to figure out which lights are best for your application before spending.
Enjoy!