konaboy Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 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. I have some light stands I would like to use, but they are photography lighting stands, with a completely different receptor, like this. Any lighting experts out there? How do I fit stage lights to a studio stand, what adapter? cheers Quote hang out with me at woody piano shack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtj Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 go to bhphotovideo.com>lighting>Light stands & mounting>mounting hardware>conversion adapters. You should find something workable there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mate stubb Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 I would not mount more than 1 of those stage lights on the photography stands. They are not too rugged for the weight. How many lights total are you contemplating mounting, on how many stands? Quote Moe --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mate stubb Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 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. http://www.hotrodmotm.com/images/lighting/light_snowbank_front.jpg Quote Moe --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konaboy Posted June 28, 2019 Author Share Posted June 28, 2019 aha, so stage lighting stands are more sturdy. seems obvious but had not occurred to me. I have two studio lighting stands and was only intending to mount one LED lamp on each stand. Quote hang out with me at woody piano shack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Burgess Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 The word Spigot is your friend if you just want to have one fIxture on top of a stand. When I did lights and stuff in the UK, they were usually a 38mm pole diameter, speaker stands usually 35mm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Dan Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 What are these "millimeters" you speak of? Quote Dan Acoustic/Electric stringed instruments ranging from 4 to 230 strings, hammered, picked, fingered, slapped, and plucked. Analog and Digital Electronic instruments, reeds, and throat/mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesG Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 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 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. Quote Hammond: L111, M100, M3, BC, CV, Franken CV, A100, D152, C3, B3 Leslie: 710, 760, 51C, 147, 145, 122, 22H, 31H Yamaha: CP4, DGX-620, DX7II-FD-E!, PF85, DX9 Roland: VR-09, RD-800 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Losendoskeys Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 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 Quote Yamaha CP70B;Roland XP30/AXSynth/Fantom/FA76/XR;Hammond XK3C SK2; Korg Kronos 73;ProSoloist Rack+; ARP ProSoloist; Mellotron M4000D; GEM Promega2; Hohner Pianet N, Roland V-Grand,Voyager XL, RMI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Dan Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Quote Dan Acoustic/Electric stringed instruments ranging from 4 to 230 strings, hammered, picked, fingered, slapped, and plucked. Analog and Digital Electronic instruments, reeds, and throat/mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou Gehrig Charles Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 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). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarolynBall Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 In my projects I often used these fixtures and it took me a few minutes to install them, it's very simple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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