Hi
Amount of light is not linear to power delivered so at 10% of power likely near zero light output. l
10% is warmers- Warm the light up before use.
Looked at unit and it does not really define what the 40W refers to. Likely it is the load at supply voltage. With thyristor switching although average load may fall as the light is dimmed the thyristors are still switching full load.
I believe that the 40W min load is per channel.
Oh ok i didn't know that, it seems a bit odd though.
[code:1]Any Quartz halogen bulb will not like running cool and dimming them will shorten their lives.
Idea is the very hot envelope will not allow the tungsten to be deposited on it so it will re-deposit it onto the tungsten element. However the re-deposit will not be even so in the end the lamp will blow. But with a cold envelope the quartz will go black and the bulb will blow premature. [/code:1]
OK, I could probably find some different fitting that take a normal tungsten bulb.
It's for a one night event so as long as they last the night all will be fine.
They will spend most of there time chasing and less dimming. I was just checking to be honest.
[code:1]So your 8 lamps will reduce very quickly as they blow so really you need to consider it with less than 8 lamps.
To reduce light without changing colour it is better to control the number of lamps in use rather than dim the whole series of lamps.[/code:1]
How many lamps would you recommend.
we don't have enough channels for every lamp on there own circuit.
there are a total of 24 fitting but each channel of the dimmer has 8 cans on it.
No it does not reduce the amps. It reduces the time the amps flow for.
I was just going by what my amp meter was saying.
