Rainbow Flood Build with Adapter Plate

[CLD Kevin]

Anybody have pics of how you built your Rainbow Flood using the adapter plate? I bought the 500W flood from Lowes…seems kinda too big, but will work. I have a few questions on how they are being built….



Do you hot glue the adapter plate to the inside housing?

How are you connecting the RF to the adapter plate? Using standoff or just using tie-wraps direct to the adapter?

Can the bottom of the RF (solder points) sit against the adapter plate? No problems with heat?

The 500W Flood housing will hold two RF inside. Would this be a waste to have two in one housing?



Also, how can I check the watt/amp of the flood? I have a Fluke 87 and a Kill-A-Watt. I can measure the voltage with the Fluke, but cant get a watt/amp reading when the RF is on. The Kill-A-Watt shows watts/amps, but looks wrong per the specs for the RF.



Kevin

[Surfing4Dough]

This may or may not be helpful, but here is an old thread with lots of pictures of 2 floods mounted in one enclosure. Maybe towards the end of the thread there might be discussion about the adapter plate (since this was released later):
http://forums.lightorama.com/forum79/22328-1.html

Also: http://forums.planetchristmas.com/index.php?/topic/42707-rainbow-floods-using-the-utiltech-enclosure-how-to/

[Guest guest]

Last year, i was looking at doing two floods in one enclosure..this year, with the new rev, better LEDs, based on a small amount of testing thus far, thinking I'll do one per enclosure. HD and Lowes, among other places, have the enclosures. I'm looking at deploying 6 of them this year.

Last year, I didn't use the adapter plate..just hot glued them into the casing of the enclosure. will likely do the same this year. I also like the pigtails a lot better than the RJ-45 jacks..

The adapter plate is helpful, but not a necessity.

The forum link that SFD posted is probably your best source of ideas and discussion.

[CLD Kevin]

Thanks Dough for the links. That was a lot of reading and the pics helped. I saw that I comment on the post too…guess I didn’t remember. I need to start bookmarking!



The adapter plate came with the new RF and I chose the pigtail option. IMO the 500W house it too big for one RF and since I’m using the pigtails, I don’t have the cat5 connector problem and need to mount it in a 45 degree. I will probably buy a smaller housing and just cut down the adapter.



Just a suggestion to Greg...The pigtail is a great idea, but they came already solder to the board. I need to removed them because I can’t feed them through the existing hole in the flood housing. I would have to make a large hole for them to fit. It would be best if they were not soldered to the board. Second, the pigtails need to be longer. They only come 6” long and too short to fit through the hole in the rear of the 500W housing. At least 12” would be ideal. I could drill new holes at the bottom and the 6” pigtails would fit…something I didn’t want to do. So I’m going to remove the pigtails, solder 4 wires in its place and reconnect to the pigtails inside the waterproof black plastic box that is mounted to the back on the flood housing.

[Ponddude]

Hi Cracker.

Thanks for the suggestion. I am assuming you purchased the floods fully assembled, which is why the pigtails were attached. It is an interesting decision I am not rethinking because if you purchase the spotlight assembled (with out the enclosure) we do not solder on the pigtails. I think we may start doing that and actually make it an option on the site.

With the new flood that is coming out there will only be an option of the pigtails. (more on that later) They will need to be longer to fit into the enclosure, so the 12" pigtails will be available soon enough.

Greg

[TJ Hvasta]

Greg, do you have any of the previous versions of the Flood kits left? I'd like to find 4 or 5 of the previous RFloods and RSpot kits..

TJ

[Ponddude]

TJ,

All the old spotlights (the rectangles) are gone. I did just find 6 or 7 flood PCBs. I do not have any LEDs left for the old lights though...we just have the new LEDs on hand.

Greg

[Guest guest]

Ponddude wrote:

With the new flood that is coming out there will only be an option of the pigtails. (more on that later) They will need to be longer to fit into the enclosure, so the 12" pigtails will be available soon enough.

Greg

So a new flood in addition to the new (brighter, better LEDs) that you've already released?

[Ponddude]

[Surfing4Dough]

DonFL wrote:

So a new flood in addition to the new (brighter, better LEDs) that you've already released?

http://forums.lightorama.com/forum81/25980-2.html

[Guest guest]

Surfing4Dough wrote:

DonFL wrote:

So a new flood in addition to the new (brighter, better LEDs) that you've already released?

http://forums.lightorama.com/forum81/25980-2.html

Yes, those are the ones I have...this year's version, with better LEDs...definitely better than last year.

But read Greg's post:

Hi Cracker.

Thanks for the suggestion. I am assuming you purchased the floods fully assembled, which is why the pigtails were attached. It is an interesting decision I am not rethinking because if you purchase the spotlight assembled (with out the enclosure) we do not solder on the pigtails. I think we may start doing that and actually make it an option on the site.

With the new flood that is coming out there will only be an option of the pigtails. (more on that later) They will need to be longer to fit into the enclosure, so the 12" pigtails will be available soon enough.

Greg

That would say to me that there is a third version, of some sort, coming out...needing longer pigtails, etc.

May be the same LEDs, just an enclosure variation...not sure..will defer to Greg on that one.

[Surfing4Dough]

DonFL wrote:

Surfing4Dough wrote:

DonFL wrote:

So a new flood in addition to the new (brighter, better LEDs) that you've already released?

http://forums.lightorama.com/forum81/25980-2.html

Yes, those are the ones I have...this year's version, with better LEDs...definitely better than last year.

But read Greg's post:

Hi Cracker.

Thanks for the suggestion. I am assuming you purchased the floods fully assembled, which is why the pigtails were attached. It is an interesting decision I am not rethinking because if you purchase the spotlight assembled (with out the enclosure) we do not solder on the pigtails. I think we may start doing that and actually make it an option on the site.

With the new flood that is coming out there will only be an option of the pigtails. (more on that later) They will need to be longer to fit into the enclosure, so the 12" pigtails will be available soon enough.

Greg

That would say to me that there is a third version, of some sort, coming out...needing longer pigtails, etc.

May be the same LEDs, just an enclosure variation...not sure..will defer to Greg on that one.

I guess you missed why I posted the link above. See the 35th post in that thread from Greg (pasted below). I suspect that this will compete on the level of the CCF.


Ponddude wrote:

Don...The "new" flood I am speaking of is a fully enclosed, DMX, constant current light that features 54 .5 watt Super Flux LEDs. It is completely different than the current flood. I don't really want to speak too much about it until the details are completely ironed out and I know what we will be offering...sit tight...just realize it is completely different than the current Rainbow Flood. We probably will rename it as well...any suggestions?

[Guest guest]

That's right..I missed it. Thanks.