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These look good for the price, but how are they 25, 45 and 60 degrees? Or is it just shoddy cut & paste?

Standing at the sky's edge at Sheffield got pretty loud during the scenes of chaos before the interval but the loudest theatre show I recall was Memphis at the Shaftesbury, the last song was gut wrenchingly loud but but very clear and not painful.

Way back in the ‘90s when I was an the CCT project office, we had a job come in for a Robin Hood themed attraction. (A farmer had bought the scenery for the movie Prince of thieves and decided to jump on the bandwagon). They wanted the impression of arrows whizzing through a forest. After much discussion of possibilities weighed against price, they settled an six or so Minuette Profiles with arrow Gobos and a box of tricks to one-shot chase them on cue from show control. It worked fine and they were happy with it, but it was the sound that carried it off, it just looked like a gobo chase to me.

Also join the Zero 88 support forum, the guys are very helpful and responsive. There are links to it via their website.

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Someone contacted me via Facebook asking if I knew of anyone still servicing and reparing Rainbow scrollers. Apparently they have about fifty of them and they are keen to sort them out. Any pointers? Thanks, Ian

I think it was an aluminium casting but I’d have to check. (It is in bits in a bag at the back of the garage). Most of the weight is in the heatsink.

The LEDJ Performer 200 is very bright but perhaps too wide at 120 degrees. It has a RGBW 200W COB LED source. https://cpc.farnell.com/ledj/performer-200-quad/led-par-can-rgbw-200w/dp/DP36276 (Don't try dismantling it to fit in a 23, not enough room and you now have optically a LED version of a Furse SPK.

I have been acquiring bottom of the range mid-range fixtures for a price conscious venue. Elumen8 MP75s are RGBW fresnels that work very well at 5m trim and are in your budget but would probably lose oomph at 8m. The next one up (the TZ350) has certainly got the throw and intensity but it is big and heavy, reminiscent of a Patt. 43! It does have DMX zoom which can be handy but it is noisy unless you inch it. (Something else to go wrong of course).

Yes, but he was running a business back then, not a museum. He has already started to clear out that barn in anticipation of making it a viable display space. However Jim is getting on a bit now and Beccles is not exactly a busy metropolis so the idea is that the contents of the museum can readily go to a better home if/when the opportunity arises.

Alas, David Sandham’s project has foundered after the Regent Centre board withdrew their support. Jim Laws has offered a barn in Suffolk to achieve the same end, more anon.

I seem to remember that you would see a small arc inside the CSI lamp if it didn't want to strike confirming the presence of HT, provided the pip hadn't popped. (Unless I'm remembering what Xenon lamps do, I had a projector decide not to strike a few hours into lamp life once but it was fine with the spare). One other thought which is probably a red herring- 765s were originally designed for CSI lamps and you have a CID lamp there. I don't recall if they were entirely backwards compatible with the early models although later data sheets show 785s as CSI/CID. The CID apparently gave less light but looked brighter due to the spectral distribution. I suspect they probably were backwards compatible as not being so would have hopefully stuck in my mind. However we are talking 40+ years here...

I recently picked up an LEDJ FS100 followspot for circa £350, also seeking an affordable narrow profile. pros- it is tight and bright for 100W led, it has an iris, regular zoom profile lenses and sharpens/softens quite nicely. You can DMX control intensity and colour on two channels. It has native cold white with warm white as the first colour on the wheel. cons- no framing shutters or gobo runners. The dichroic colour wheel is not in the order I’d want and a couple of colours are insipid. The bottom end of the dimming curve is fierce, it leaps to noticably on with DMX level 001! It is an affordable low end followspot/profile and suits our need to tightly light an organ console but would have liked stripping shutters or even just a top blade. Worth a look for the price.

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For a low budget situation, have you looked at the LEDJ 200 cob? Really wide beam angle, RGBW, 8 channel in basic mode, £169 each. https://prolight.co.uk/product/ledj490 I took a look at the LEDJ 200 Quad. It is very bright, smooth and wide. However the fan fires up quite quickly once there is light coming out, is a bit noisy compared to many and it doesn’t support RDM. (Although it lights up if it catches a sniff of an RDM discovery sequence). The RGBW saturation is probably no worse (or better) than other cheap non-calibrated fixtures. If I wanted a fixed angle wide wash and had a limited budget I’d consider them, but probably not for non-music theatre. Get on to Prolight and see if they can demo them.