Hi guys, last year was my first year setting up a haunted house (6000sqft) --- we didn't find much tutorial on setting up haunt lights (wiring and positioning) so we just did what came natural:
1. after the rooms were built, we connected a long extension cord to a LED spotlight and moved around the room until we thought the effect was right. sometimes we switch the LED colors and try again.
2. once we decided the color and position of the spotlight, we'd mount it and repeat for the next light fixture.
however we came up with the following problems:
1. dragging an extension cord around the different rooms was a real pain
2. many times we'd connect (+) and (-) terminals in reverse (we used 12V LED spotlights) and have to go back and rewire.
3. sometimes having OK'd each individual light doesn't mean all the lights together look good, so more rewiring after the initial light up.
so here's the SOLUTION we came up with, I'm hoping others can offer some suggestions
1. we created our own 12V LED spotlight modules that didn't care about (+) and (-) terminals. you just connect it either way to your power supply wire and it lights up.
2. we created a portable 12V battery module that connects to the LED lamps as we test them, this way we can "pre-light" the haunt before committing it to the permanent power source
Does anyone else think this is something they might use?
We initially made these for ourselves but feel that other haunt owners may find it useful. Come check out http://darklight.e5design.com we're gonna launch our product at Transworld 2010.
Please let us know if there are any other problems with lighting installation, we'll figure something out and make a new product out of it =)
our custom LED spotlight
our custom portable 12V battery kit
1. after the rooms were built, we connected a long extension cord to a LED spotlight and moved around the room until we thought the effect was right. sometimes we switch the LED colors and try again.
2. once we decided the color and position of the spotlight, we'd mount it and repeat for the next light fixture.
however we came up with the following problems:
1. dragging an extension cord around the different rooms was a real pain
2. many times we'd connect (+) and (-) terminals in reverse (we used 12V LED spotlights) and have to go back and rewire.
3. sometimes having OK'd each individual light doesn't mean all the lights together look good, so more rewiring after the initial light up.
so here's the SOLUTION we came up with, I'm hoping others can offer some suggestions
1. we created our own 12V LED spotlight modules that didn't care about (+) and (-) terminals. you just connect it either way to your power supply wire and it lights up.
2. we created a portable 12V battery module that connects to the LED lamps as we test them, this way we can "pre-light" the haunt before committing it to the permanent power source
Does anyone else think this is something they might use?
We initially made these for ourselves but feel that other haunt owners may find it useful. Come check out http://darklight.e5design.com we're gonna launch our product at Transworld 2010.
Please let us know if there are any other problems with lighting installation, we'll figure something out and make a new product out of it =)
our custom LED spotlight
our custom portable 12V battery kit
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