Turning it to 11.

[RyanT]

(This is sort of a ridiculous picture of me)

I just worked on a shoot last week as an electric and got to use this baby. 100,000 watts of sheer power. :grin:

Just thought everyone should see this, because you know, why not? It's awesome.

As a side note, even across the street and inside of a building it was shooting into, it was ridiculously hot. I was comfortably wearing 3 layers outside and inside on the other side of the building, but had to go down to a T-shirt when I went into that room. It was a bit scary watching it sway a little bit on the condor that we had, especially in the rain, but by some strange miracle, we all made it out alive.

 

[ilauzirika]

WOW, I want one of those! (even though I would need a nuclear station near my house to power it.....)
amd I thought my 1000 pars were hot......

That bulb must cost a fortune!!!

 

[RyanT]

Haha, the bulb was longer than me! It's 8 feet long, and oh yeah, must be very costly.

 

[filmat11]

Do you have any more exterior shots with the light working ?

 

[puredrifting]

Ryan:

What kind of light is that? Is that a Dino or a Maxi Brute? The biggest I have ever used are 24ks and this looks like quite a bit more.

Dan

 

[bcheong]

Looks like a 50K or 100K Softsun.

 

[RyanT]

It was the 100k soft sun.

I wish I had some exterior shots of the light working, but I wasn't able to get behind it much and in front just wasn't working as you might as well expect.

 

[MattinSTL]

Anyone can clearly see that's you next to a Tota after somebody blasted you with a shrink ray.

*thanks for the pic, yes that's awesome.

 

[Drew Ott]

Mmm.... that's nice. Does it run off of a stinger? (joke)

The largest lights I've seen were two 18k HMI PARs that were about 80ft high in a condor... but unfortunately I wasn't allowed in any condor (under 18 and was interning).

How do they actually power a 100k though?

 

[Matty_g]

Is that a Dino or a Maxi Brute?
Dan

Dan, Dino's and maxi's are both multi globe par's.

 

[RyanT]

Mmm.... that's nice. Does it run off of a stinger? (joke)

The largest lights I've seen were two 18k HMI PARs that were about 80ft high in a condor... but unfortunately I wasn't allowed in any condor (under 18 and was interning).

How do they actually power a 100k though?

We ran banded directly from a generator into the ballast. The ballast was the size of a small, yet very heavy, filing cabinet. We did have a dedicated generator for the 100k though, then ran the rest of our power off of another one that we distributed through other means...

 

[HorseFilms]

I might have to pick one of those up... you know, for interview situations.

 

[ilauzirika]

I might have to pick one of those up... you know, for interview situations.

I knew you were going to interview someone from hell, but I didn't knew that he was so picky........