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ANY lighting gets hot.
If it's bright... it's pulling some amperage and there is some heat.
You can't get something for nothing!
A few weeks back I did a sound system for the local high school's show choir.
The school is new and they only have a cafetorium (cafeteria/auditorium) and the available power is limited.
There was not a panel available close enough to tie-in like we usually do.
Yes... our giant school tax bill isn't enough for the proper amperage on a brand new and GIANT high school.
I had the p.a. and the bands back line spread across two available 20A circuits which should have been enough.
What I didn't know is that the kids had plugged in about 100' of rope light into one leg of my stuff.
Of course, at a loud moment near the end of the show one of the 20A breakers went.
It was the one with the rope lights and the F.O.H.
I had everything back up in under three minutes and we ran the rope lights to the wall receptacle I had originally told them to use.
100 feet of rope lights pull about 8 amps.
That's some serious electrical amperage really.
It is the equivalent of a hair dryer.
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