Scenemaster60
Well-Known Member
I have come into a baker's dozen of Kliegl 1355 ERS for the cost of picking them up. I can tell markings on them that they belonged to the Children's Theater here in Minneapolis. They look to date from the early 1970s which is when CTC built their new theater building attached to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. I also know from reading old posts on here from their house electrician David Horn that once upon a time CTC maintained an inventory of about 200 of these up until about the year 2000.
They were clearly well maintained (all of them have newer teflon lead TP-22 sockets in them) and I do have a use for them for the little community group that I work with that has NO budget. I am well familiar with how to bench focus radial ERS from my days of working with conventional-lamped Altman 360s.
That said, I have 2 questions I am wondering if anyone can answer:
1. I bench focused a couple of these today using the EHG lamps that were already in them and the results were about what I expected. Does anyone have any experience in using the FLK lamp in these fixtures? Would the slightly more compact filament give a cleaner bench focus and/or more light output than the EHG while allowing me to circuit these 4 to a 2.4 kw dimmer.
2. What in the heck did these true "Klieg" lights use for a gobo holder? The shutter gate is 2-3/4" in diameter and the gobo holder slot is 4-1/2 or 4-5/8" wide and about 6" deep. I have seen NOTHING on the market in that size for standard metal gobs. Was it proprietary to Kliegl? I realize that the optics on this fixture leave much to be desired but I am interested in possibly projecting some breakups and other patterns where optical precision is not all that critical.
Any insights would be appreciated.
They were clearly well maintained (all of them have newer teflon lead TP-22 sockets in them) and I do have a use for them for the little community group that I work with that has NO budget. I am well familiar with how to bench focus radial ERS from my days of working with conventional-lamped Altman 360s.
That said, I have 2 questions I am wondering if anyone can answer:
1. I bench focused a couple of these today using the EHG lamps that were already in them and the results were about what I expected. Does anyone have any experience in using the FLK lamp in these fixtures? Would the slightly more compact filament give a cleaner bench focus and/or more light output than the EHG while allowing me to circuit these 4 to a 2.4 kw dimmer.
2. What in the heck did these true "Klieg" lights use for a gobo holder? The shutter gate is 2-3/4" in diameter and the gobo holder slot is 4-1/2 or 4-5/8" wide and about 6" deep. I have seen NOTHING on the market in that size for standard metal gobs. Was it proprietary to Kliegl? I realize that the optics on this fixture leave much to be desired but I am interested in possibly projecting some breakups and other patterns where optical precision is not all that critical.
Any insights would be appreciated.