Preston Phillips from Hope Community Church in Raleigh, NC brings us this great lighting design.
Layered-height lighting grid, with Downstage-to-Upstage depth slant. Included individually-controllable LED tape tubes with RGBW.
Tubes were made from plastic safety covers for fluorescent bulbs, with butcher paper on the inside to mute the diode appearance and spread the color. LED tape was connected with plastic-housing, metal-punchdown adapter clips to 5-wire (Voltage+RGBW), which was run to 8-circuit / 32-channel RGBW DMX decoders, powered by 24V power supplies.
Tubes were hung with black decorative chain, through a bolt/nut combo that was placed through the top of each tube. The chain was attached to the new lighting grid, made up of 1.5” OD steel pipe, that was dropped down from the rigging points in the structure’s ceiling grid.
Completely scalable and reproduced at all of their campuses.
I would love to know your stage dimensions. We are looking into doing something similar!