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BTS: Studio update #2 (Cleaner / Brighter)
🕑 Added 2021-10-22 05:10:33 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QrA3Dvjhk
Strides made in the categories of lighting and organization; also, we nearly had an entire rack of computers collapse; also, we found mysterious imported print goods in the rafters; also, I give a short treatise on hopefully-defunct business internet; also, Gibbs; things continue apace.
One thing I forgot to mention: Comcast Business (only damn thing I could get, ugh) lights up tomorrow. Expect a stream from the studio on Sunday, if things go well.
Another thing I forgot to mention is that I gave up on the idea of the ordinary overhead lighting in the studio being adequate for fill light and just ordered another goddamn Godox SL60W because I need this problem to go away.
I'm not sure now if I actually complained about this, but: In my basement studio at home, I have adjustable-temp overhead canless LEDs that have been doing *just fine* so far for fill, and I figured I'd just do the same thing at the new studio, but the first light I bought was a 9000 lumen monster that made me look like I was being abducted.
I planned on going back to home depot and picking up the high-bay variant with a diffuser, but that one was 18,000 lumens and wanted a 0-10V dimmer. Have you heard about these? I mean, it's, uh, "goodbad."
The way we've dimmed lights for 150 years was by decreasing the voltage fed to them, but LEDs really don't play well with that - even when they're "designed" to be dimmed that way, they really hate it, tend to die quickly, and have a really hard time interpreting where the dimmer is set based on the line voltage, so they can be hard to carefully adjust, among other things.
Apparently when I wasn't looking the industry switched to a completely new, bad thing called 0-10V - yes, it's always called "0-10V", verbatim, not like "10V dimmer" or "ten volt system" or anything, it's called the least convenient thing. And fixtures that support this have additional wires, to which you apply a zero to ten volt DC signal to choose your desired brightness.
This is cool except that, admittedly without having utterly deep-dived it, I can tell they screwed it up and made it a total mess.
The dimmer circuit *could* have been a simple 10V signal produced by the fixture which you could then attenuate with something as simple as a potentiometer, but it seems like what you're actually supposed to do is to use a dimmer that generates it's own 10V, meaning, it has to have a 110V supply to generate the DC from. So, if you're thinking "cool! finally! we can just wire the light into 110, then run only a low-voltage feed to the switchbox", uh, well, no, you still have to run the 110 "through" the dimmer, it just gets joined by a wire pair with 10V on it now. So that's... kind of just worse?
It also looks like you sometimes have to wire a relay in with the dimmer if you want to shut the fixture off completely. I don't know. I lost interest.
There are wireless ones out there it seems, which dulls the pain in concept - ziptie a wireless transceiver to the back of a light fixture, then splice into the 110 feeding the fixture to run the dimmer power supply, then control it remotely... okay, I guess. Except you can't buy those locally, you have to get them from some supply house online.
Assuming I could have gotten a dimmable fixture and the color temp matched OK, I still would have had to order and wait for a wireless dimmer. So I bought a couple $40 strip lights to just illuminate the room and then bought a Godox on amazon which I'll get tomorrow. Problem solved, ugh.
Comments
Matt Falcon
Ooooof. Yeah, that's a tough one. Surprised it's so scarce -- normally, things I have access to are only the things everyone has access to, so I'm kinda used to giving the "Y u no?!" bit. haha. Well, the monopoly still sticks... but maybe some day, Starlink may be available. Maybe just after your contract with the evil empire is up, who knows. haha
Cathode Ray Dude
I searched everywhere I could, tried "seattle wireless broadband" etc on google, and found absolutely nothing. Wave has no service in the building, The Clink has 10/1 garbage DSL. I work for a company that regularly supplies businesses with internet service, and every single LTE backup we sell costs a king's ransom. When one of our customers accidentally gets failed over to wireless for a few days and doesn't notice, they find out when they get a thousand dollar bill. I can only imagine that 5G service isn't available where I am, or where any of our customers are. At any rate, I'm stuck in a one year contract, so it's moot.
Matt Falcon
> Comcast > the only thing I could get Oh my sweet summer child. Have you been introduced to the absolute joy that is 5G home internet? I've had T-Mobile 5G home internet for the past several months (since I originally preordered Starlink, and had a discussion with someone that told me about stationary 5G service), and I can't gush enough about it. $60/mo, no data caps, 500mpbs down and 60mpbs up, all the time. Most of my devices aren't even fast enough to keep up with it. haha. Just food for thought, a possible opportunity to bust that awful monopoly. haha
