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Hey I need a 240v 2500ws flash that can travel.???? ANd is not profoto at 35 lbs at $10,000

it is too heavy and too expensive. Acute 2 does not travel well in my experinence.

Speedotron makes a force 10 /220v but maybe you all know more than me.

Elinchrom 1200rx sounds like it might be ok but what do you all think?

Does it travel well? Is it really as bright as a 2500pack and head ?

Bowens 1500ws ? IS it really that bright as a 1500ws should be ?

Any one use the comet 800 monolight?

Anyone using a Godex 1000ws ? is this a good and reliable flash?

Old Balcar monolights can be 3000ws might be a good choice?

????Any thoughts
 
michael lipman said:
michael lipman wrote:

Hey I need a 240v 2500ws flash that can travel.???? ANd is not profoto at 35 lbs at $10,000

it is too heavy and too expensive. Acute 2 does not travel well in my experinence.

Speedotron makes a force 10 /220v but maybe you all know more than me.

Elinchrom 1200rx sounds like it might be ok but what do you all think?

Does it travel well? Is it really as bright as a 2500pack and head ?

Bowens 1500ws ? IS it really that bright as a 1500ws should be ?

Any one use the comet 800 monolight?

Anyone using a Godex 1000ws ? is this a good and reliable flash?

Old Balcar monolights can be 3000ws might be a good choice?

????Any thoughts
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Firstly, you require 2500Ws (from one head, right?). Next you list contemporary 1200Ws units and older antique units down to 800Ws. Tell us more exactly what you really need, i.e. what's behind the story!
 
What are you going to light - or should I say nuke - with that?
 
I am lighting interiors. I need to blast out sunlight streaming through windows.

I need at best case, 1 if not 2 2400ws packs and one spot light like a dynalite 400jr with a 10 degree grid. Some times I am lighting a building lobby that is 1/2 the size of a football field.

1000ws dynalite pack and head is like nothing in a big room.
 
Besides renting a pack at your location. If your looking for a battery system, there is always the older Broncolor Versa A4. (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/492999-REG/Broncolor_31_033_07_Verso_A4_RFS_2400.html). If not do what everyone else does, get a pack/head system with dual voltage and then just rent a portable generator. (if not just find a voltage stepper, dynalite for example sells one for the pack/heads. http://www.adorama.com/1/1/113362-dynalite-voltage-transformer-460.html And you can find ones that will do a clean conversion for 4800 w/s packs).
 
Peter Berressem said:
Peter Berressem wrote:
Peter Berressem said:
michael lipman wrote:

Hey I need a 240v 2500ws flash that can travel.???? ANd is not profoto at 35 lbs at $10,000

it is too heavy and too expensive. Acute 2 does not travel well in my experinence.

Speedotron makes a force 10 /220v but maybe you all know more than me.

Elinchrom 1200rx sounds like it might be ok but what do you all think?

Does it travel well? Is it really as bright as a 2500pack and head ?

Bowens 1500ws ? IS it really that bright as a 1500ws should be ?
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Yes, the 1500 w/s Bowens mono unit does meet its specification correctly. But 1500 isn't 2500..[??]

It is also not the most convenient unit to use with a large softboxes, I find.

The unit is quite long, front to back, which means the down-force from the weight of the softbox is exerted at a sufficient distance from the tilt clamp, which is at the central pivot point, that the clamp fails to grip properly, and the unit sags. There are ways around this inconvenience, but most are somewhat crude-looking, and don't appear so professional in front of the client.. :-(
Peter Berressem said:
Peter Berressem said:
Any one use the comet 800 monolight?

Anyone using a Godex 1000ws ? is this a good and reliable flash?

Old Balcar monolights can be 3000ws might be a good choice?

????Any thoughts
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Firstly, you require 2500Ws (from one head, right?). Next you list contemporary 1200Ws units and older antique units down to 800Ws. Tell us more exactly what you really need, i.e. what's behind the story!

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cheers, Peter
Germany
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Regards,
Baz
:
"Ahh... But the thing is, these guys were no ORDINARY time travellers!"
 
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Have you checked out the Alien Bees Zeus system?

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www.paulcbuff.com

However, they are rated 105 - 125 Volts input.

I used this system to photograph a group of 250 people outside at about sundown, and the lighting was perfect.
 
michael lipman said:
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I am mixing daylight with strobe, So multiple pops are not workable
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Easy peasy. At the given aperture, divide the required exposure duration by the amount of pops needed. E.g., metered shutter speed 1/2 sec = 2 exposures @ 1/4 sec what makes 2000Ws from a 1000Ws unit. Or 4 pops @ 1/8 sec = 4000Ws flash power.....
 
220v 50hz as in travel to Europe, UK, South of France near Nice and
Verbier, Switzerland?
I am talking with a client now about it. If I get it I gotta have the right equipement.

Unless you know of rental near Monaco or Nice, France? I could not find strobe rental near there.

It would be so much easier to get my own stuff that I AM USED TO.

With a rental senerio THEN lets say I rent in London or Paris then drive or fly to the south of france, I then have to drive back or air ship back some very heavy and very expensive rental, in a country I am not familar with? It is all very iffy if you are not near a big city.

Best case: I buy 2 used acute 2 packs and just sell them when I return to the US. Since I have no idea if I will ever return to Europe for work.

Or the 3 Elinchrom 1200rx OR an 2 old balcar packs and 2 heads . It depends on if I am going to make ok money or big dollars on this shoot.

I should just go rent an Elinchrom 1200 and see if it is as amazing as a speedotron force 10

The Speedotron Force 10 is just a bit less power (1/3 of a stop) than that of a Dynalite 2000 pack and one head
 
Peter Berressem said:
Peter Berressem wrote:
Peter Berressem said:
michael lipman wrote:

I am mixing daylight with strobe, So multiple pops are not workable
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Easy peasy. At the given aperture, divide the required exposure duration by the amount of pops needed. E.g., metered shutter speed 1/2 sec = 2 exposures @ 1/4 sec what makes 2000Ws from a 1000Ws unit. Or 4 pops @ 1/8 sec = 4000Ws flash power.....
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Lawrence Keeney said:
Lawrence Keeney wrote:
Lawrence Keeney said:
Yes the Zeus fits the bill 11 lbs, recycle of 2.5 sec at full, small and dropable,
BUT it is 120v 6ohz and if they made a Zeus with 220v 50hz then I have gotten what I need.

But I called Paul Buff and asked them and they said they only make the Eienstien in 220v.

So If the Zeus could run at 50hz with a transformer then great but it cannot.
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OK, I saw you were from Chicago, and didn't realize you needed 50Hz equipment.
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Sailor Blue said:
Sailor Blue wrote:
Sailor Blue said:
Lawrence Keeney wrote:
Sailor Blue said:
Yes the Zeus fits the bill 11 lbs, recycle of 2.5 sec at full, small and dropable,
BUT it is 120v 6ohz and if they made a Zeus with 220v 50hz then I have gotten what I need.

But I called Paul Buff and asked them and they said they only make the Eienstien in 220v.

So If the Zeus could run at 50hz with a transformer then great but it cannot.
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OK, I saw you were from Chicago, and didn't realize you needed 50Hz equipment.
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michael lipman said:
michael lipman wrote:
michael lipman said:
Peter Berressem wrote:
michael lipman said:
michael lipman wrote:

I am mixing daylight with strobe, So multiple pops are not workable
Click to expand...
Easy peasy. At the given aperture, divide the required exposure duration by the amount of pops needed. E.g., metered shutter speed 1/2 sec = 2 exposures @ 1/4 sec what makes 2000Ws from a 1000Ws unit. Or 4 pops @ 1/8 sec = 4000Ws flash power.....
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