How do you hang or mount a truss light?

There are a few different types of clamps to hang your truss lighting. The old school clamps are called a J-Clamp which are less popular these days due to the time it takes to set them up. Another old school clamp is called the C-clamp which is a little faster to install but still not our favorite.

The Cheeseborough clamp is a more popular clamp that is faster and more secure than the C-clamp or J-clamp. The Cheeseborough clamp is commonly called a "half cheese" or a "half clamp" or "coupler clamp".

Regardless of what clamp you use make sure you use a safety cable when you hang any lights that will be above an audience or performer. This is very important to comply with insurance and industry standards and general entertainment safety guidelines. Also make sure the cable that is used is rated appropriately for the fixture you're hanging.

Permanent Installation Stage Lighting Truss for Clubs and Venues

We have trusses for permanent installs at clubs and have supplied National clubs in Vegas, Los Angeles and national venues with staging and light trussing systems.

We offer stage truss, staging and lighting stands from popular brands like Galaxy, Intellistage, Odyssey, JMAZ and ProX. We have all of the clamps, safety cables and truss accessories you need to hang truss professionally and safely in your club, event center, house of worship or amphitheater.

Make sure to contact us here at our DJ warehouse here in Los Angeles 800-700-4542 for help with any stage, lighting stands or trussing needs.

Portable Lighting Truss System

For travelling DJ's, Karaoke and Wedding DJ's portable trussing is required. We offer portable lighting stands, T-bars and complete packages. A great example of a portable light bar is the Chauvet Gigbar series portable light show.

They feature a DJ light bar with LED lazer effect, LED par cans, strobe lights and derby effect lights. These all in one light trees come with a convenient travel case and setup quickly and daisy chained together in series for a coordinated scalable lighting system.

They come in 2-10 foot sections that connect seamlessly with accessory kits and arched truss segments. Portable systems can use crank towers for a quick independent truss lift up to 9.8 feet, popular with mobile entertainers and production companies.

If you're doing a larger show or rider that requires hanging trussing you'll want to look at a portable lighting truss system from Chauvet Trusst or Galaxy Stage Truss.

I-beam Truss

I-beam truss is a two chord ladder style truss design. It's much like the heavier 3 ladder triangle or four ladder square tube design.

These 2 chord ladder pieces only carry strength in one direction and are rated from quite a bit less strength. However; they can be a convenient solution for portable lightweight truss applications and pack down much smaller than typical triangular or square frame truss assemblies.

Box Truss vs Triangle Lighting Truss

The 4 ladder style truss is called box truss. This type of truss is common for permanent and portable installations. Box trussing has a unique advantage over Triangle Truss.

With the square style caging you can actually put your par lights inside the Lighting Truss for transport! This saves room and money for cases and saves a ton of time with setup at the show.

Triangle cases are a little lighter but lack the ability to store lighting inside for transport. Using Box Truss also allows you to lay your cables on top of the truss instead of running them inside. This is way more convenient, faster for setup and more flexible if last minute changes or cables need to be swapped out.

We have box truss systems and box truss accessories for professional stage setups.

Lighting Stands

T Stands or Lighting Stands are common with DJ's and portable light show systems. Stands don't need to be hung light traditional lighting truss but have their own challenges.

These stands allow you to mount lights on the T across the top of the stand conveniently while it's collapsed. The downside is they are quite limited to the overall height that they can reach.

Typically you can only reach 9-12ft high with a T Stand. If you are on a stage 3ft high suddenly your 9ft T stands aren't going to cut it and you'll really need to have the larger 12ft versions.

T-stands are not extremely stable and often stage hands will sandbag the legs to keep them anchored during the show for safety.