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Be careful calling CFLs Soft Serve Cones. I might end up eating them in the middle of the night 🍦 💡

The lime in the lime limelight was great.

Later on they had an open aluminium reflector with a lampholder riveted to it, and you plugged a 500W halogen lamp straight in. This assembly replaced the PAR lamp completely. Not as good, but cheap and available.

PAR46 is not a typo. It's the next size down from GE lighting. Fun fact: locomotive headlights use 75V or 35V PAR56 tungsten-halogen bulbs, and marker (tail) lights use PAR46.

Man, as a Brit I really appreciate that when you are speaking in UK context you pronounce aluminium correctly. Excellent etiquette.

Fantastic. Thank you for this information.

Dear John, thank you for your contribution to this art with your documentary videos, they are great! Can you please consider a video on DMX, analog, Ethernet and nodes with regards to signal flow? Thank you

Ah, yes… A fixture as old as myself, became the communal staple of our careers in culture work. Every silly story on PAR cans experienced, from the local one-time gig to the crews and artists of greatest worldwide fame. I sometimes wonder - what utility will be a common denominator of future silly stories, experienced in culture work now? Maybe just “money”…? 😅

Another one! Yess! Love your videos, please keep making them :-)

Why did I find this six hours after I talked about Par cans to my stage electrics class? Looks like I'm going back in for another!

Does the name Richard Hartman come up at all? Legend had it that he had a hand in introducing them to rock-'n'-roll by his contemporaries

Welcome back. Sorely missed you were.

I'll always remember the harmonics of pars on dimmers as they sang to the actors and audience on any kind of fade.

Rock and roll might have created the demand for PAR cans, but i shudder to think of how power infrastructure looked like in the early days of touring shows sucking back ungodly quantities of power. I know we did the usual thing of "stealing from heavy industry" and eventually ended up with things like Soca and cams, but what crazy things did people get up to before we had settled on those?

People sometimes toss the words "underrated UA-cam channel" around too casually but this one it really applies to. At least if you are interested in various lighting systems.

Ohh yeah! You are my kind of wierd. Instant subscribe. Let's learn about par cans

altman be praised

A 26-minute video on lamps and I'm here for it. _So_ here for it.

It's hard for me to even fathom the amount of wattage needed for those giant walls of PAR cans, and the amount of heat they must have given off.

Worms?

Every time I see a Jonathan Bastow video notification and watch it, I'm shocked this channel hasn't blown up yet.

Just a couple of points from when I used halogen PAR lamps. When the filaments were cold, they had a very low resistance so there was a big current spike if they were suddenly powered up. For that reason it was usual to leave them on at a very low level by using pre-heat on the dimmer racks. Also, when a halogen lamp blew, the hot gas inside the lamp capsule could ionise and flash over causing a dead short, popping the breakers or fuses in the dimmers or worst case the lamp would shatter. Thanks cor the vid. Duly liked and subbed.

As an engineer, i fall down the rabbit hole All the time.

I just realized that I wasn't subscribed. Subscribed.

Welcome back.

Not sure why this popped up in my recommendations, but what a nostalgia trip! I used to dabble a bit into show lighting a a hobby in my youth, and bought a set of 8 PAR64 cans to light parties for friends and schoolmates. But since I was a poor student and cheapskate, I just bought a couple of "Raylight reflectors" that allowed you to keep the reflector and just plug a 500W GY9,5 halogen lamp into it. They were utter crap of course and terribly ineficcient, but good enough, lighter and less bulky than the proper PAR-lamps. Good times!

13:05 - btw I appreciate the pond-side-appropriate pronunciation of that word, in that context.

Well, this has made my day! Never spent any time in Nottingham, I suppose?

NEW JONATHAN BASTOW VIDEO!!!!! Let's freakin gooooo!!!

Something I'd like to know, but haven't found an answer to, is in older theater incandescent lighting, there's 2 different "whites" - a more yellow white, which I'm guessing is halogen, and a much whiter, bluer light. I know now with LEDs it's easy to make whiter / bluer light just by changing the phosphor mix, but what were the whiter white lights in incandescent times? Or, maybe the "yellower" white is regular incandescent, and the whiter white is halogen? It seems really common for general stage illumination to have both, and you tend to see them in any stage / theater setting.

[Sigh] Look, how many times to I have to say this? It's Puh-kahn!... Oh... um, nvrmnd. Carry on. Carry on. Seriously, you had a great run, PAR cans. You made our fond experiences of music and stage so much brighter.

Thank you for the comprehensive look at PARcans! I definitely remember encountering them in my youth - I think for where I used to be they are all replaced with LED Fresnel lamps? (long box- not sure if there's a lens?). Thanks again for the great video.

Great video! I'm always happy to see something new from you! I always heard ACL pronounced Aircraft Landing Light, when it wasn't just an ACL. I guess that would have made it an ALL, but the roadies I ran with never much thought about that. The admonition you found against "cheap PAR lights not worth their shipping" referred to the PARLiter, and a host of similar knockoffs by mail-order lighting companies of the time. They were at best a Fresnel replacement, but with a truly ugly uneven pattern and uncontrollable spill. The manufacturing quality of many of them was, um, "questionable", which didn't help the lighting guys liking them much. I did summer stock at a theater that had a bunch of the Arial-Davis spotlights. What a nightmare! They were a good 3 feet long and weighed about 50 pounds each. I think they had an auxiliary lens, because you could control the beam angle by sliding the PAR forward and backward in the can. They were an attempt to make a PAR-Leko, but you couldn't get a sharp edge, they weighed a ton, got blazing hot, were almost impossible to adjust, and could be better replaced with a 6" Fresnel with a 500W lamp.

What do you MEAN we don't know what soot is-aaaaand I've been nerd sniped. See you all in a few months o/

Great video thanks for the info. Did you look into the Svoboda low voltage light bars?

"including my hair"💀😂

you should make more videos

Finally, a nerd with charisma.

I feel like I was just tricked into appreciating theater while looking for a scientific answer as to how a "lime light" work.

That was neat thankyou! I was trying to find a video demo of arc lighting originally

Your voice is identical to Matt Frewer, in case no one has ever told you... I love it!

The bottle constantly changing about killed me, Great video in general and very informative!

Thankyou

I came for the Science I liked it for the Comedy

Thanks nerd man. You have served the internet well today. Go read a book and get smarterer.

That lime joke was excellent! I'm adding it to my collection of dad jokes.

Wish I had became a chemist instead. Looked way more fun to experiment with the elements but also had to be careful not to get yourself in trouble

After the modern electric light is on: - Where is my Hair???

Lighting a lime with a lime limelight, now if you were say brittish....

Great set of videos! I have watched them all and learned quite a bit. I have struggled with connecting low wattage lights (LED and conventional) to different modern dimmers without ghosting or light flicker. Even at a concert hall with modern electronic dimmers. Would it be possible to do a talk on the difference in modern dimmers (something around 1970 to now)?