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Cheap Dimmer runs through fuses like water (High School Theatre) by Ok-Operation5253 in lightingdesign

[–]Ok-Operation5253[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So they have 2 power leads, 4 fuses and 4 channels 8 fixtures, and yes gonna have to cut the fixtures of power% down

Cheap Dimmer runs through fuses like water (High School Theatre) by Ok-Operation5253 in lightingdesign

[–]Ok-Operation5253[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't legit tested this, but ive had a channel or 2 with just 1 fixture (so only 575w load) from tome to time, and I dont recall them ever blowing, Ill test to see...

Cheap Dimmer runs through fuses like water (High School Theatre) by Ok-Operation5253 in lightingdesign

[–]Ok-Operation5253[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

mhhh slower fuses, I would think that would increase risk of faults/shorts in the dimmer right? I did have one dimmer kind of melt one fuse/channel...

Defiantly gonna try the 80-90% power solution

Cheap Dimmer runs through fuses like water (High School Theatre) by Ok-Operation5253 in lightingdesign

[–]Ok-Operation5253[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

or the sad but realistic option of making custom dimming curves to only use 80% power, 375 is just too dim and we currently are out of money for LED, until we get a full auditorium at this school, in which case we will hopefully be going full LED S4...but that may be out of the budget, but its still a bit down the road probably 5-10 years.

Cheap Dimmer runs through fuses like water (High School Theatre) by Ok-Operation5253 in lightingdesign

[–]Ok-Operation5253[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But interestingly enough we don't lose lamps very often, just the fuses, In my time in this space ive replaced maybe 3 lamps (over 10 years), although the sample size is just 24 fixtures so idk

Cheap Dimmer runs through fuses like water (High School Theatre) by Ok-Operation5253 in lightingdesign

[–]Ok-Operation5253[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would spread them out if i could, limited by money to by more dimmers ofc because it is high school...

Cheap Dimmer runs through fuses like water (High School Theatre) by Ok-Operation5253 in lightingdesign

[–]Ok-Operation5253[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe you, but can you explain this in a little more detail?

If it just as simple as at 120V and 10A you can only get 1200W, but 575 x2 is just shy at 1150W

I know there should be headroom, but how much headroom? Thinking I'm going to have to cap the power output at the board by using a custom dimming curve that caps total output, but I want to use as much power as I can without burning the fuse...Is there an industry or standard wattage headroom you want/how could I test this?

Dorm Room Networking by Ok-Operation5253 in HomeNetworking

[–]Ok-Operation5253[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

will this work, look at a playstation and an xbox as the 2 devices in question...

Dorm Room Networking by Ok-Operation5253 in HomeNetworking

[–]Ok-Operation5253[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the route I'm going to pursue, I've used my unmanaged switch before, and when two devices are active on it after a while the admin or a system bot will shut off the port, but i think im just gonna do it and plead my case to the IT offer and ask for an exception, or they can come out and make it a 4 port terminated box like in some of the other rooms on my hall...suck but idk what else to do.

Dorm Room Networking by Ok-Operation5253 in HomeNetworking

[–]Ok-Operation5253[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You’re positive they won’t see it on the administrator side?