led moving head idea

Jingles8302Admin

hey all. i was wondering if it is possible to make a led moving head like the design 36 led MH but instead of r,g,b, color mixing, if they make c,m,y, leds? so a cyan, magenta, and yellow leds. that way u can get more then the r,g,b, colors. good idea?? is it possible? peace! jingles!

5/31/0712:23 PM

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elationproMember

Hey Jingles..
What's new??

Color mixing is interesting.
When you have RGB. This is considered addative color mixing. What this means is, if you have Red at 100%, Green at 100% and Blue at 100% you get white.

CMY is subtractive color mixing.. If you do all the colors at 100% this will give you black, or the colors go away.

CMY is only useful if you have a white source to back it up, like in a moving head, the source is comming from the lamp.

5/31/071:24 PM

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Jingles8302Admin

oh i see now that makes sense. but haven't i hear of additive cmy mixing?? also jonny, i am trying to learn about color temps and do u know of any links that are useful?? like i want to learn about why there is color temp filters and etc. any tips are much appreaciated. peace! jingles!

5/31/073:33 PM

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mikelightsMember

In case you haven't seen it yet, wiki has a pretty good page on color temperature:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature

6/4/0710:15 AM

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tylerherronLighting Tech Guy

interesting. I learned something today. thanks for the link mikelights.

jthtiger

8/8/0712:46 AM

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