Hello~I NEED to know how to do this~could someone help me with this please?!
Some areas do not have electric, or accept generators. THANKS!
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Hello~I NEED to know how to do this~could someone help me with this please?!
Some areas do not have electric, or accept generators. THANKS!
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The cheap and dirty way is to use architect's or drafting lights; the articulated lamps with a reach of about 2 1/2 feet. The foot of them fits rather nicely in the pro-Panel tubing. Lowe's has some LED light equivalent to 60 watts for a reasonably inexpensive price. Get a 300 Watt inverter and the largest marine battery you can get (about 120 A/H rating; ignore CCA ratings as they have no place in this type of use). CFL lights will work but if have have too many and too high a power, your battery won't last the weekend. I use CFLs and use two batteries to make sure I get through a weekend.
Thanks Robert~It's funny because these are the SAME lights I started with as a newbie a long time ago! From then, we went to halogen fancy lamps on our table, & spots. Of, course if we will be using a marine battery now, this is all very good information, & we may go back to these. That's interesting about the ratings~you gave us a lot of good info.,~thanks, Kathy
I use a similar system with the exception of bouncing 2 65 watt CFLs (equivalent to 300watt) off the top of my canopy to provide an even wash of light on 2d art. In your case, with jewelry, I think you're going to want light to shine directly on the work (small spot lights focused down from directly above to get the sparkle that you need)
Thanks~Yes`SMALL spot lights focused down is a good idea!
I have the Pro Panel system and it works great but you can do about the same thing with a lighting bar from one of the big box stores as long as you can install it for your needs. Deep cycle batteries are heavy but work well, especially with LED lights, I have 4 par 30 LED floods, two per side with 2 batteries and they will carry my lighting needs for 3 day shows with a nice reserve.
It sounds like you too have the pro-panel system! It looks like first I should figure out which kind of lights we should use for jewelry~I know floods worked well with my oil paintings when I did that, but we need to have lights that allow our jewelry to "sparkle", so we need to check a bit further. Thank You SO much~!
LED's or CFL's can work, CFL's do draw more power. I think the key for the sparkle for jewelry is the correct temperature (color) or lumens for jewelry. I am a wood worker so color was was not a big issue for me so I got the lamps with the highest lumens that I could find. A jeweler tried my lamps and found they had a blue cast which did not work for that sparkle you need. A lower temperature lamp would work better, daylight or warm white maybe?
Pro Panel has a very informative section. Just click on the battery icon http://www.propanels.com/lighting/
Thank You so much Rich~this was very good information & it looks nice & BRIGHT! We don't have panels, but instead "curtains" in our new display that we are currently making (long overdue) as we have jewelry, but I'm sure Steve (my other half) will figure out the best way to hang the bars. I only wonder is LED lights are the best for jewelry for that "sparkle" needed. We have been using halogen for years, and I really don't know anymore with all the new lighting if LEDS are best for jewelry, or something else. I'll show this info. to Steve about the Marine battery & I'm sure he will also really appreciate your info. See you down the road!