How awesome would it be if we dimmed the lights

[joedawg]

during the pregame video before the team ran out and let the big screen light up the stadium. I realize this is probably way outside the realm of possibility I just think it'd be badass and really get people 17'n pumped.

 

[therightway]

nm

 

[FlabLoser]

Stadium lights don't dim. And they take quite a while just to turn on.

 

[bsquared24]

I can only imagine that the lighting system for the stadium at large are not the quick light-up lights that exist in many basketball arenas. I think they would be more like the lights in my HS gym that you flipped on and they "warm up" taking about 3-5 minutes to come on to full brightness. I also would think there might be some safety issue since the steps are not lit like they are in theaters.

 

[AzzurriDawg4]

nm

 

[hairy3rd]

These aren't 60 watt kitchen bulbs. They're generating massive amounts of heat up there. I read somewhere that light only accounts for 15% of the total energy used by each fixture.

 

[BCash]

and wondered if some sort of remote controlled cover could be used to close over each bulb to cut the lights, then flip open to quickly illuminate the stadium. These covers would have to withstand the heat somehow and now screw up the lights themselves.

 

[hairy3rd]

I would think that unless there was some sort of elaborate heat dissipation system, though, the extra heat being reflected back would burst the bulbs at some point.

If LED technology ever evolves that far to where it could get bright enough without looking like 500 Honda Civics' headlights were mounted on our light towers, I would think JoeDawg's idea would be possible. Saw a concert a while back where the band had these massive LED light towers all around them....the lighting effects were supremely killer.

 

[BCash]

you'd only want the lids closed for about 20 seconds, enough for the intro video. I might have a million dollar idea on my hands. And of course, you could control them individually, put them on systems with different patterns, etc. to make the lights go crazy like a rock concert. It would add a ****-load to the atmosphere.

 

[el capitan]

but you're looking at a heap of money to do something like that. It'd be a little cost prohibitive, I think. Especially considering it would be used just for an intro.

 

[hairy3rd]

according to Jackson State and Alcorn.

 

[biguglyjoe]

*****

 

[pDigital32Dawg]

I can see it now. Some poor person is going to end up rolling down the stairs as they trip over a step. But yes dimming lights or some sort of light effect would be the ****.

 

[BCash]

you'd still have other smaller lights on. And oh yea, the 2nd biggest light in the nation; our huge *** replay board. Why dont blue-hairs fall down and sue the school in the hump when the lights go off. It is 100 time darker in there than it ever would be in DWS with my revolutionary light covers on.

 

[thunderclap]

only about 20 bucks.

 

[bulldogbaja]

Incandescent (screw-in) light bulbs are 2-5% efficient. Florescents are up to 9%.

 

[Dawg725]

You ever see Stadium lights turn on? Takes a while to warm up...

Also, if one of you engineer guys out there can explain, I would think it would put an awfully heavy load on the power system to turn on and off that quick...wouldnt it?

 

[jmbeck]

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[bulldogbaja]

and it does typically take awhile to come on- but that's more than likely the same kind of lighting that's in the hump, and they dim those. It just requires an upgrade.

 

[jmbeck]

Arenas and concerts typically use halogen lamps, and sometimes now LED. The light produced by a halogen can be easily dimmed compared to other bulbs. Metal halides, once off, must cool before they can be re-lit. Did you ever turn the lights off in your gym in high school? You can't just turn them back on instantly. The temperature must be reduced for the arc to strike. Coincidentally, it's this temperature build-up that causes the metal halides to burn brighter.

In short, the lights in the Hump and at Davis Wade are different.