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hey everyone, I was wondering what you guys thought about led spot lights.
I was thinking of using them for a LOR setup. any thoughts?
thanks

I invested in a couple PAR-30 60 UV-LED floodlamps last year and absolutely love them because my blacklight source can be 10+feet away from what I'm lighting. I've heard that the difference between colored LED floods and incandescent floods is less noticeable and may not be worth the extra$$. What's an LOR setup? Its not in the haunt dictionary or jargon pages.

Light o Rama , sry somtimes I make up my own abreviations

I have used LED spot lights with Light Show Master, which functions similiar to Light-O-Rama. The only problem you'll have with LED spots is they have a limited dimming range and they dim different than incadescents. Incadescents usually have a consistent drop in brightness as you dim them. Not quite so with LED spots. With my LED spots, they don't dim much between 80-100% power, and then they dim very fast when dropping below 80%. At 50% they don't even light anymore. So you get limited dim range, and the curve is somewhat flattened compared to an incadescent, but they do work. At least the ones that I get from Minions Web, anyway. The new ones from Minions Web this year are supposed to have some improvements, but I don't have them yet and I don't know what those improvements are. I'll test them when they come in.

I strongly recommend using both Pin Spots and LED's, each of these provides different atmospheric effects. I use pin spots for direct hi-lighting of props and LED's for background effects. IMO this is definitely the way to go.

Here is a perfect example of what I am talking about. I used both a pin spot and and 36 LED spot for this prop. Checkout the shadows in the background as well.

I have included both a day and night shot.

Try using a Mini Spotlight. They can be found on the link at the bottom. They are all LED and extremely bright. they light only what you want them to (Spot Mode) or they can wash a scene. there are 10 colors and even a UV one. They are only $10 a piece and last a lifetime.
https://www.minispotlight.com/
Wiz

Originally Posted by Xpendable

I have used LED spot lights with Light Show Master, which functions similiar to Light-O-Rama. The only problem you'll have with LED spots is they have a limited dimming range and they dim different than incadescents. Incadescents usually have a consistent drop in brightness as you dim them. Not quite so with LED spots. With my LED spots, they don't dim much between 80-100% power, and then they dim very fast when dropping below 80%. At 50% they don't even light anymore. So you get limited dim range, and the curve is somewhat flattened compared to an incadescent, but they do work. At least the ones that I get from Minions Web, anyway. The new ones from Minions Web this year are supposed to have some improvements, but I don't have them yet and I don't know what those improvements are. I'll test them when they come in.

Sounds like you need to add snubbers to deal with the LED dimming curve, which is common in low wattage LED lamp.
Especially with red bulbs.
If you are using less than 15 watts total LED on a channel, it is not uncommon.
Unlike incandescents, the power to energize an LED is not linear, and it is more difficult when you add drivers and arrays into the mix.

I understand LOR is working on a better LED driver to accomodate the increase in LED usage.

Originally Posted by djm902

hey everyone, I was wondering what you guys thought about led spot lights.
I was thinking of using them for a LOR setup. any thoughts?
thanks

This durable spotlight comes with its own solar panel, and uses 16 LED's to produce light.

One other great source of high-powered LEDs are the Hong Kong distributors on eBay. I've seen some standard package, single LEDs on there as high as 200k mcd! They're about $1.50 ea @ qty 20.

- Hook

I went to the Christmas Tree shops yesterday and purchased a 60 LED solar power lights. They are not bad not real bright but perfect for $ 9.99 and to light up my walk through hut.