Beyond now applying stickers “700w” or “1200w” on all
Mac 700 or
Mac 2K / VL-3K
fixture spare lamps I
send out these days so as to prevent the - really bright in an odd way until it exploded problems of the exact same box for both lamps, today I ran across a MSR 575HR lamp that got installed into a upgraded MSR 1200SA Cyber Light
fixture by “oops.” mistake. Didn’t explode in an expensive taking out the
reflector type of way, yet there was around $100.00 worth of lamp that’s now not just landfill but expensive moving light lamp recycling landfill. Hmm, G-22 lamp it would seem will work in a GY-22 lamp
base - for a while. In this case before the upper lead in
wire went
super nova within the outer
globe.
Way too many fixtures on the market these days. Here I am attempting to buy MSR 2000 Gold fast fit lamps, and attempting to get their specs at the same time, this as with little biglight lamps and worse yet the upgrade to the biglight lamp specs and pricing at the same time. Or as I stated in E-Mail today, these HES lights on X tour just left the shop Friday - the day I took off theoretically without any spares. I kind of know this because I have this lamp/
fixture set of sheets for new fixtures out on the tour, yet the only spare for them is currently in my
hand. Would it like a spare lamp for the lights?
Getting to the
point that I don’t have room to store all the moving light lamps I have to
stock. This
Chroma Q
fixture takes a
HMI 575w/SEL, but the VL 1KA will only take a MSR 575HR. Same lamp, one
ballast due to two volts difference won’t
play nice with a much easier to get and cheaper lamp until it’s re-designed and it will no doubt be. This beyond Phillips being back ordered and more expensive on this and many lamps. In the mean time I now have like twenty to forty of each brand added to room to store them I didn’t have in the first place. Used to store a few of each for resale purposes to high school follow spots, than the lamp is suddenly popular again and I have to bulk up and store them. Hmm, Phillips boxes are the worst. They just seem to keep growing in size and don’t store the lamp any better, just get larger.
Almost a real fan of the
Mac 250
LED in that it don’t take spare lamps other than in some way it means the end to my corner of job security.