It's always nice to do shows & be able to have power and use your track lights, but I have grown to hate doing shows that do not offer electricity and I have to do without my lights.
This year I have decided to try out the battery operated system to counter this problem.
I bought a 175 a/h AGM deep cycle battery & a 200 watt inverter to operate my lights. My lights are 2 sets of track lights w/6 heads each. I am using 9watt (50 watt equivalent) LED bulbs in my system w/5000k. I currently have one set switched over to the LED's but haven't touched the other set yet. So currently it would be 54 watts from my bulbs (108 once I finish the other set) but I'm not sure about the inverter.
Can you all give me any advise on my set up? The LED bulbs do seem to be much brighter than the former bulbs & I haven't switched out the other set of track lights because I'm not sure if I will still need them.
My work is wooden portraits in wooden frames & my booth is black. My canopy doesn't really let in any light.
I was hoping some of you that have plenty experience in this department could help me out, I have until the 1st of May to get everything worked out as it will be my 1st show w/o electricity.
Thanks for the help,
Mel
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There is some very good information on this site re: battery powered systems just do a search on it! I'm running a similar system only with CFL's that works pretty darn well. I only use 6 lights total and I'm satisfied with the illumination. I wanted to stay under 100 watts total in order to get the most hours out of my lights that I could before recharge. Just be aware that, depending on your inverter, it may shut down before you use half the battery power. My understanding is that you don't want to go beyond that anyway. Also be sure to fully charge your battery before using it to have full power and capacity from the battery. They aren't lith-ion!
Mel Hamrick > S Brian BerkunMarch 29, 2014 at 1:08am
How long does your battery seem to last before having to recharge? Btw, do you use dark display panels?
I will try doing some testing to see how all of this works, & to check on the number of lights needed once I receive everything. I was just trying to get some ideas.
How long have you been using your setup?
I did check out some of the stuff on here but it doesn't look very updated, just curious if everything was still going well or if there were any new improvements.
Thanks for your help,
Mel
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I will try doing some testing to see how all of this works, & to check on the number of lights needed once I receive everything. I was just trying to get some ideas.
How long have you been using your setup?
I did check out some of the stuff on here but it doesn't look very updated, just curious if everything was still going well or if there were any new improvements.
Thanks for your help,
Mel