I would think that 10% of your cost including the shipping, your time, clamps,
safety cables and lamps would be a fair rental price. After ten shows you replace them or make money off them. This given perhaps a few more dollars on the profit. $5.00 each I would think safe. This given it’s a 100hr lamp, that rental price should safely involve the full lamp life also by the end of ten shows. Perhaps add in the cost of doing the install, extra cables needed delivery and maintenance
etc. in paying for the extra time that will be necessary for the use of them. Bumping up to $10.00 each might be within the range though if I saw that price I might question it given what the
fixture is.
Than again, if you have never had a need for them before, suppose it’s a consideration of if it’s an investment that will pay off in doing ten shows within a reasonable amount of time, charging more for something that will collect dust, or perhaps something that should be rented on the opposing side of the spectrum. This given by the time you pay the rental and transport, than prep the gear you on this
fixture might just as well have bought them.
Don’t know if it helps, but perhaps it’s stuff to consider. Perhaps something used on E-Bay? Fairly dependable fixtures without much that needs major work. Too bad I have no idea of what happened to the tub of like 20 of these fixtures I once had. Couldn’t afford replacing the lamps on them primarily after a wee slight mistake in testing the wiring in series concept... Yup, early in my career I took perfectly good fixtures with transformers and wired them in series. One wee mistake and pop pop pop... they all went or at least half went instantly with the rest blowing later.
All that’s left of them is six in my garage, we could chat off
line, something like buy new lamps for them and that’s sufficient for rental but again such fixtures could be a good investment. For my pinspots, I also did a sort of lamp bar for them. 7/8"
Unistrut with a
C-Clamp at it’s center. Bolted to the side of the
Unistrut is three duplex boxes to
plug the pin spots into. Hang one 30" bar and all six fixtures are mounted. You also don’t have to mess around with a bunch of cube taps. Saves a lot of time if they are all single position, otherwise mount to a few bars and it’s fairly easy to mount as if lamp bar.
For the investment, look for a H4515 lamp. Same amount of lamp hours, 12,000 more
candlepower than the
stock #4515 lamp. The “Made in China” lamp I’m not sure if you will get a full output but it’s a concept. American DJ fixtures come with the crap China lamps, for the most part they are not bad fixtures - your standard
stock pinspot. World
Stage & Disco Lighting Co. Ltd. #WSD-1020-3 if they still sell them is also not a bad -
stock pinspot, perhaps even better than the American DJ version. The simplification of the American DJ
fixture didn’t solve any problems, but it still functions ok.
Best pinspots probably are not made any longer but instead of the peanut butter jar type screw, they were either hinged or had clips with knobs for removing the
lamp cap. Much more safe by way of stuff hitting the
fixture and the lamp falling out - happens too easily to the extent of the last pinspots I made into DWE and #4596 fixtures, this in addition to venting the rear of the
fixture, I had to add
safety cables and lamp screens. Didn’t want to trust that screw thread. Speaking of that project, should have dozens of replacement transformers for pinspots at work should any go bad - ever.
For real investment in a pinspot, I would
call TMB,
play tested the initial version, slight errors in
sizing and engineering it but a darned good
fixture with
gel frame slot once upgraded. Hope it helps.