Ryan Emanuel 6 Posted February 7 Is there any reason why dimming quasars on a Leviton D4DMX would be bad for the units? Its just a much cheaper option than the ratpac LED dimmers for DMX. Thanks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joshua Linder 2 Posted February 15 On 2/8/2020 at 1:19 AM, Ryan Emanuel said: Is there any reason why dimming quasars on a Leviton D4DMX would be bad for the units? Its just a much cheaper option than the ratpac LED dimmers for DMX. Thanks! It should work quite well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart Brereton 498 Posted February 15 I haven't used the Leviton dimmer, but I used to have a couple of American DJ units which are very similar. They worked fine with Quasar tubes, except when dimmed very low. There seemed to be a cut off point after which the tubes just switched off abruptly. It was the same when dimming up from nothing, they would suddenly switch on, rather than fading up. I don't know if this was to do with the dimmer or the tubes. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Adrian Sierkowski 448 Posted February 15 Did you try ghost loading the dimming circuit with say a 25W or 40W tungsten? Found that can help sometimes with the sudden on/offs of quasars. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart Brereton 498 Posted February 15 1 hour ago, Adrian Sierkowski said: Did you try ghost loading the dimming circuit with say a 25W or 40W tungsten? Found that can help sometimes with the sudden on/offs of quasars. I never really looked into it, Adrian. On that particular job, I didn't need to dim the tubes all the way down, so I mentally filed the problem away for another day. Probably would have tried that had it been a issue for us. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
