Cyberlights on 110V?

Hello all
I'm currently working on building up a good set of equipment for my attempt at lighting design. After reviewing many options for used equipment (And my parents demanding for me to buy American made) I've recently discovered the Cyberlight classic as a good choice. However, this brings up my nightmare, in that Cyberlight classics do not support 110V, which I will primarily be dealing with. This also applies to various other lights too, from various manufacturers.

I am curious if anyone knows of any way to get Cyberlights to work on 110V, even though they do not naturally support it. Preferrably, an easy, simplistic way, that won't cost more than the lights themselves to do. I've already looked all through the manual for the Cyberlights, and I understand about their 208/240V Support. So, is there any way to do this that is not unnaturally dangerous, or overly skilled/expensive?

Also, I'm quite curious if anyone knows why the Cyberlights and certain other fixtures from various manufacturers require 200+V, whereas other lights that use the same lamp and same features do not. I'm just curious on that.

Please do let me know! I am really hoping to be able to use High End systems equipment in time, but this nasty roadblock popped up and I must find a way around it to do so.

-C
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    Well, I never said it was an ideal situation . . . but it beats the crap out of standing in the dark! Sometimes, things like this are the *only* option, other than don't use the gear . . . .

    Also, I don't know where you have been working, but at least in the spaces I find myself in, figuring out what outlets are fed by a circuit is also a pretty trivial exercise. In commercial facilities, panels tend to be pretty well labeled, and branch circuits don't go all over hell and back like sometimes happen in homes, when the guy who did the wiring appears to have been stoned at the time. On stage, i find that the chance of someone adding something to an on-stage utility outlet unseen is also almost zero - they are far too easy to see, and if you have a handle on your show, you are in control of that anyway.

    Obviously more complex than if you have a switch (and after 5 years, I *finally* got the venue that was causing me to do this to put one in . . . after I *bought* it for them . . . ) but as said earlier, it beats standing in the dark.

    - Tim
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    Well, I never said it was an ideal situation . . . but it beats the crap out of standing in the dark! Sometimes, things like this are the *only* option, other than don't use the gear . . . .

    Also, I don't know where you have been working, but at least in the spaces I find myself in, figuring out what outlets are fed by a circuit is also a pretty trivial exercise. In commercial facilities, panels tend to be pretty well labeled, and branch circuits don't go all over hell and back like sometimes happen in homes, when the guy who did the wiring appears to have been stoned at the time. On stage, i find that the chance of someone adding something to an on-stage utility outlet unseen is also almost zero - they are far too easy to see, and if you have a handle on your show, you are in control of that anyway.

    Obviously more complex than if you have a switch (and after 5 years, I *finally* got the venue that was causing me to do this to put one in . . . after I *bought* it for them . . . ) but as said earlier, it beats standing in the dark.

    - Tim
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