Blue Dimensions (owners of the Lencarta brand) is financially secure, growing steadily with very healthy sales growth, not much risk of being unable to get parts. In addition, has been trading for nearly 10 years now.
As you say, the modelling lamp is easily obtained. It's the standard Edison screw fitting, plenty available from Halostar and others.
Flash tubes? Made in Germany, again readily available. Not that you're ever likely to need one unless you physically break it (or have an ex assistant like mine who walks into a lighting stand and then just stands there watching it crash to the ground).
Radio trigger? Yes, it plugs into the flash head and the mains lead plugs into it. An ideal arrangement because it's working on mains voltage, very reliable and very simple. But you can use literally any radio trigger instead if you want to, if you don't want to use the one supplied you just plug the mains lead into the head instead of into the radio trigger.
A visit to my studio will be fine. Just PM or ring me to make arrangements because, as a photographer, I'm obviously not always available
:bonk: i had to order 1 off ebay only problem there all have to be shipped from hong kong so have to wait uto 10-15 days before i can try my kit out am well and truely gutted
And if it isn't you've got my phone number
