dimmer switch help

[moonband]

if you look! dimmer #1 will light up 2 100watts flood light and dimmer 2 will light one light and seperate outlet for fog machine or other accesories

 

[Spark123]

You need to enquire with someone in a lighting hire business local to yourself regarding the rules for what you are doing and see what they recommend.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

That diagram makes about as much sense as a Tibetan starship manual...

 

[JohnD]

I do theatrical lighting, I don't know what regs are like over there, but a licenced theatre here has a lot of regulations and official inspections so would not allow you to use a home-made rig like that for a public show, and any electrical outlets on or in front of the stage are under the control of the lighting operator.

If I was building one to use at home I would probably use domestic dimmers rated for halogen lamps (and we use a different kind of plug for switched and controlled circuits to lamps). And probably a separate 2-pole switch and dimmer for each lamp or smoke machine, with a main switch and RCD for the whole lighting board.

I do not think you would economically be able to buy or assemble a professional mobile rig as they use SELV or digital controls at the operators box to (usually) 3 phase lighting packs in the lighting gantry, then flexible cord extensions to the lamps and other devices.

 

[JohnD]

You need to enquire with someone in a lighting hire business local to yourself regarding the rules for what you are doing and see what they recommend.

Very good point.


edited to say: Just remembered we also have a portable lighting board, though it runs on a 30Amp industrial socket in our workshop and has 6 outlets of 15Amp round-pin lamp sockets. Maybe you could hire something like that.