Re: LED replacement lamps for Littlite sets?

"S Harber" wrote ...
> Are there any DC versions of ropelights that anyone knows about?

LEDs are exclusively DC. Incandescent are polarity agnostic.

> I assume a lot of the light would be wasted if it were LED based due to
> the orientation of the rope but... it could be useful. The incandescent
> DC verson, if there is one, would draw too much for a cart.
> I've seen light rails on large racked patch bay rigs but I don't think
> those were LEDs.

I ordered one of these to try out for on-camera fill...
http://www.ledtronics.com/ds/gdl002-200/



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