Lighting a hilight?

[Little John]

OK over the last few years drunk people have cost a fair bit in broken lights and flash bulbs in the highlight falling back etc.

My thought is to try 3 or 4 of these things in the 7x8 highlight.

On a holder and a clamp to the corners to direct them. recycle time is slow at 3 seconds colour temperature is wide at 5500k-6000k so again not great but its only to light the highlight and they are not that powerful only 45w but could they work if it gets broken its only £15 for a new one rather than a new flash tube and usually modeling bulb.

Any thoughts?

 

[Garry Edwards]

Like most junk products, that Ebay listing is an obvious Google translate from a Chinese website, which is why none of what it says actually makes any sense. And the Chinese website is probably just a copy and paste job from another, similar website, so the info on it is probably false - it nearly always is.

I haven't tested this particular item, but other, very similar units produced far less power than claimed, took longer to recycle than they claimed and were very unreliable because the slave sensors, if they worked at all, were very insensitive.

But the biggest single problem is that they output a very narrow beam of light (which produces an inflated guide number). They won't light a Hi-lite evenly.

 

[Little John]

And that is pretty much what I was thinking, I guess I better get some more modeling bulbs ordered for our lights down to our last one.