<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Hello from your neighbourhood lighting designer! (amongst other talents!!) :)</div><div><br></div><div>LED is great and they now make fantastic small sources with good colour. Check at Home Depot or the like for PHILIPS LED lamps. There is a variety and some are also dimmable, although more expensive. Around $35-50/lamp?</div><div><br></div><div>There are lots of great MR11 that are 12volt, incandescent/halogen, but they are hot to the touch and have a larger transformer than the LED. The LED runs cool and needs a small transformer that must have good air circulation around it. </div><div>You could also consider kitchen undercabinet lighting which is the size of a puck. These come in LED (don't think dimmable) and incandescent.</div><div><br></div><div>Buchanan lighting, on Loretta street, have LED dimmable sources (another manufacturer than Philips but just as good). They are very helpful as their business is about lamps only - they know their product lines.</div><div><br></div><div>Lastly, there are different "colour temperatures" (not heat but referencing colour of the rainbow, sort of, in kelvin). The 3000 Kelvin lamps are warmer, like the idea of an LED sunset. The 4000 Kelvin lamps have more blue, and are described as a cooler light. Buchanan has various samples installed in bookcases in their showroom to illustrate this.</div><div><br></div><div>Have fun!</div><div>Louise</div><div>(with my cocreations lighting design hat on)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Michael Grant <<a href="mailto:michael@krazatchu.ca">michael@krazatchu.ca</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Thursday, March 14, 2013 4:19 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Mod Lab Artengine <<a href="mailto:lab@artengine.ca">lab@artengine.ca</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [Lab] Controlling Light with Sound<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>It's considerably easier (and safer) if the light is a LED as opposed to 120v incandescent. <br></div>What kind of light? <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:11 PM, The Big Plan - Chris B <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tbp@ghostwise.com" target="_blank">tbp@ghostwise.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Hi!<br><br>
Looking for some advice for an art installation. I'd like to have a light or set of lights respond to an auditory<br>
input. I'd like the lights to turn on in time with the sound of a ventilator (a medical one). So when the ventilator is<br>
not doing a breath, the lights would be off, but then when the ventilator starts doing a breath they would<br>
turn on for the duration of the breath. I'd like the lights to light up and dim gradually, not just on an off.<br><br>
What's a simple or best way to do this?<br><br>
Thanks!<br><br>
Chris<br><br>
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