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Hi, I have bought a few stage lights, they have a hole on the bracket for mounting to a light stand. I believe this to be for an M10 bolt.

 

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I have some light stands I would like to use, but they are photography lighting stands, with a completely different receptor, like this.

 

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Any lighting experts out there? How do I fit stage lights to a studio stand, what adapter?

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The normal way to mount the flat pars is on a T bar, which fits a regular telescoping aluminum light stand. You can get 4 flat pars on 1 T bar.

 

I have done something a bit different with my stage lights. I put a single wide angle light fixture in the 4 corners of the stage, mounted on a bracket directly above the pole, so no T bars needed. I cobbled the bracket together by cutting a square T bar down and bolting it to the U bracket.

 

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What are these "millimeters" you speak of?

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You don't want to be dicking with little nuts and screws on stage during setup and teardown every night anyhow - find a better way.

 

If your stands are big, around 38mm, like lighting poles (hint hint), you can use something like these speaker pole adapters

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My front-lighting rig is based on those, I have two PAR38 cans cans on them, which are then mounted on poles that bolt into mounts which I made for the flypoints of my FOH speakers.

 

Flat pars often use 20mm tripods, though. If you can a good want to mount your light, it should be safe if they are behind the band. Note that safety is really important, because lights need to be at least 8' off the ground to look good.

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What are these "millimeters" you speak of?

Those are the things the rest of the world deals with for measurement - a bit like the "World" Series in reverse. Only America plays in it, go figure!

 

Don't worry, here in England we never did adopt those nasty things properly so we have a halfway house with miles/Km/lbs/Kg in random places.

Maybe with Brexit we can go back to Imperial measurements :like:

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I would not mount more than 1 of those stage lights on the photography stands. They are not too rugged for the weight.

 

 

The photography stands are handy because they're probably 1/4-20 size (common at every hardware store) but you're right, useful for only lightweight equipment (I use them for off-camera flash attachments).

 

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