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LED lighting is fast becoming a viable, efficient, green alternative to tungston, hmi and fluorescent production lighting for the film and video industries. The LED lighting sources are cool (they don't heat up rooms and make the talent sweat), they use 95% less energy, they are dimmable and can change color temperature with the twist of a knob, can run AC or DC and have a lamp life of over 50,000 hours. There are many advantages to LED lighting systems but they are prohibitively expensive for many video producers. A 1x1 foot light panel costs about $1700 dollars and when working with the fixtures they feel like they were purchased at Walmart. I am wondering if anyone has a plan for DIY LED lights.
Examples:
http://www.bhphotovi...5600K_1x1_.html
http://www.litepanels.com/
http://www.filmandvi.../roliledli.html
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Do any DIY'ers have a plan for building LED styled lighting for the video production community?5 Replies
Check out Peggy. It can power, and control up to 625 LEDs! It's open-source, and totally hackable.
http://www.makershed...ductCode=MKEMS3
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filmbilly
: Nov 13 2009 03:44 PM
Marc,
Peggy is great! I am guessing that you can dim and change color temperature etc. Do you know the dimensions of the unit? Can several of these be controlled by one micro controller? Mounting several of these together to create a single fixture would be fantastic. Create a frame and yoke and you're cookin' with gas!
Perhaps an LED floodlight would suit your needs? The DIY holiday lighting community has a few designs like this one that fits a standard 150W halogen lamp fixture. The development is discussed here.
You can find boards for controlling/dimming this and other LED fixtures at DoItYourselfChristmas.com. I'd suggest looking mostly at DMX boards as simple stand-alone DMX controllers are available from music dealers - they're popular with DJ's and bands.
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As a energy efficient light source,led lights emerge everywhere,home,street,tree,pool,hotel .yes,everwhere you can imagine. A problem follows with these applications:how can we more easily control so many led lights? The right light can make evening hours safer and more enjoyable. then the dimming control is a must for us to forge a suitable sphere. With a funny party, maybe we want a great led light effects backgrounded with high music. in the exibition room, we want a different scenario. I found a solution from web address:Full Touch RGBY/RGBW LED Controller For Ipad Iphone Android,that is a really cool stuff. control from touchpad~ you may like that
Led lightning is a very energy efficient light source, in a couple of years everyone will have these kind of installations in their homes. I bought Peggy installation for our office and everyone liked it, one of the workers suggested to Buy Kratom to make our office fancier, we will discuss this issue at the next meeting.
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