bsanders Posted February 2, 2008 Report Posted February 2, 2008 Guys, I want to park my cd 80 pac dimmers at 100 percent without the faders thereby turning my dims to nondims so that I have constant power to my moving lights. Is this possible with the Leap frog? Bill Quote
Kirkup_xp Posted February 3, 2008 Report Posted February 3, 2008 Hi Bill Not at present. Even if it was, it is definately NOT recommended to power moving lights through a dimmer, even if set to 100%. I'd urge you to run 'true' hot power, as the 100% cycle on a dimmer can still give a chopped waveform that can cause problems to the processors and motors in the fixtures, and the power on surge for the discharge lamps could well overload the dimmers circuitry and cause problems there too. Quote Peter Kirkup
bsanders Posted February 4, 2008 Author Report Posted February 4, 2008 Hi Bill Not at present. Even if it was, it is definately NOT recommended to power moving lights through a dimmer, even if set to 100%. I'd urge you to run 'true' hot power, as the 100% cycle on a dimmer can still give a chopped waveform that can cause problems to the processors and motors in the fixtures, and the power on surge for the discharge lamps could well overload the dimmers circuitry and cause problems there too. Thanks Peter I will change the dimmers. Bill Quote
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