I was raking through some old disco stuff and found this rather unique, but horribly inefficient effect. It uses a 250W halogen reflector lamp to project a kaleidoscope effect generated with a multi-layer oil filled disk with loose fragments of dichroic glass. A very nice effect, but not as bright as you'd expect for something so power hungry.
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That's really interesting, I love Kaleidoscopes and guess these are not as complicated as I thought.
I have a kalaido hid 150. I was using it for an online DJ set last night until I Heard it Pop when I nipped to the loo. I'm guessing the bulb went. I would like to get it repaired
Any idea where I could possibly buy something like this?
Speaking to all of you guys and be quiet. Talk about the halogen vs LED lighting and Equipment Etc I used to be on stage crew years ago in high school 250 watt halogens try 500 watt and more.
Not to mention those is Xenon lamps on the Falls spots.
Then those bulbs are over a hundred bucks a pop.
Pun intended.
Every now and then we would know when one of our stage lights lights would go out unexpectedly because the bulb would explode I'm talking about the large halogens with the prefix spaces that where the Mughal in size Bass. I remember once one of our guys was up on the Genie Lift we had a bulb that was not working and it was still plugged in I don't know why it was still plugged in when he went up there. But he reached Inferno bulb happened that have one arm on the safety case of the Genie Lift about 50 feet or so up in in the gym before homecoming and screams out all of a sudden it's live diet from one arm to the other and believer or not that fixture had a bad ground plus it was clamp to steel beam which had enough paint on it to to keep that for making a decent ground connection that's the only reason it did not trip breaker on Earth why do you quit meant there was no ground fault protection as we call it in the United States ground-fault circuit interrupter or from where big Clive is Earth leakage breaker or rcd.
In the auditorium we had three face that was an ant coming in strictly for lights and that does not include several several hundred amps of auxiliary and others coming in once we wind up using jumper cables to bypass main breaker because The Show Must Go On biggest performance we ever had at school it would have been the most point ever for our school if the show had to be cancelled. I was the one that did this of course I was up there wearing runs women's gloves the whole time unclear call mircom waiting for any indication to yank the cables I was the one that did all of the electrical work and repairs for stage crew for 4 years all through High School yes I was authorized to do a logical work even though I was not certified it tells you just how much is a d y r i Am that knows the codes I've done installations never had a proper inspections I've out and Don Professionals in terms of passing code and surprising code according to the inspections.
What make and model machine is this, I have looked all over the Internet and can find nothing on it. Thanks, tim
You've got me wanting one of these now. Sounds like the postage could be a bit high though.
I would love to see you repurpose this kaleidoscope piece in a different lighting solution. And thank you for the great content!
I heard "cliveascope".
*Diachronic
it is interesting you have uploaded this! i have martin mania EF1 lamp, that i was considering on changing to LED as it uses a 12v 100W lamp, would be interesting to see how well it performs, if you do decide to convert yours to LED would you make a video showing the conversion of it ? ๐
Watching Clive, I can not help but think of a famous Ultra Magnus line from the US third season of Transformers: "That is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen! …Hand me the bomb."
Toblerone of mirrors ๐ ๐
Just seeing that pattern instantly took me back to Christmas 1997 when I got my first kaleidoscope… simpler times when I was 5 lol