B&M Lighting have some sweet LED lights.

Hmmm... interesting. I worked with B&M 2K fresnels in studios years ago. They were always jokingly referred to as the poor man's Mole-Richardson. I'm interested but didn't see any pricing info.
 
I've used lots of B&M tungsten lights in the past, and they were fine, although these are a different enough technology that it might not be wise to assume too much based on those very old designs.

What I can say for sure is that the interviewer in that video was one of the most annoying characters I've seen in a while, and he didn't have a clue about how to handle the microphone. :-(

- Greg
 
Not assuming anything about the new fixtures, just interested. This B&M is definitely not the same B&M that built the old 2K tungsten fresnels. An individual bought them on the cheap some years ago.

And, yes, the interviewer was annoying.
 
Ray Wolf at B&M has been working with this design for a while. I have seen the complete line and am very impressed. I bought a couple of the 1 foot tubes to use as a "car kit". These along with an inexpensive invertor are so easy to work with.
 
Its not an original idea. This is how Cool Lights was going to do our bigger units in the beginning. I was talking about that back in 2008 here:

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showth...-Lighting-Solutions/page8&highlight=led+tubes

In fact B&M inquired with us back in 2009 when they were first coming out with those units about potentially making some housings for them based on our portable form factor units, but we never went further.

I didn't go that route for our products because I was concerned about heat management with the LEDs being sealed up in those plastic tubes--no air moving directly across them. After some testing and time, we may go back to that idea for future larger units. I do think they definitely make a lot of sense for car kits but I think buying the ones that run off 110v aren't all that convenient. The vast majority of these tubes out there run directly off 110 or 220v AC and therefore need some kind of inverter to run them in a no-power / battery situation. If we did it, they'd run directly off 12 or 24 volts DC. That's the only way to go to do it right IMHO, especially for the sake of being able to easily dim them.
 
Cool Lights said:
Its not an original idea. This is how Cool Lights was going to do our bigger units in the beginning. I was talking about that back in 2008 here:

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showth...-Lighting-Solutions/page8&highlight=led+tubes

In fact B&M inquired with us back in 2009 when they were first coming out with those units about potentially making some housings for them based on our portable form factor units, but we never went further.

I didn't go that route for our products because I was concerned about heat management with the LEDs being sealed up in those plastic tubes--no air moving directly across them. After some testing and time, we may go back to that idea for future larger units. I do think they definitely make a lot of sense for car kits but I think buying the ones that run off 110v aren't all that convenient. The vast majority of these tubes out there run directly off 110 or 220v AC and therefore need some kind of inverter to run them in a no-power / battery situation. If we did it, they'd run directly off 12 or 24 volts DC. That's the only way to go to do it right IMHO, especially for the sake of being able to easily dim them.
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Good point on the dimmers Richard. FYI the only way to dim these lamps is with a variac dimmer. A good one will set you back another $100.00, so be prepared.
 
Pity. Should have gone with DC like I told them. They have to go through all kinds of hoops to make the dimmable DMX versions of those fixtures. I like those tubes for compactness even over something like the flat Rosco Litepad fixtures and we'd probably make a DC operated tube before we'd make a Litepad.
 
Cool Lights said:
Pity. Should have gone with DC like I told them. They have to go through all kinds of hoops to make the dimmable DMX versions of those fixtures. I like those tubes for compactness even over something like the flat Rosco Litepad fixtures and we'd probably make a DC operated tube before we'd make a Litepad.
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I would buy some for sure. I do love the tube design. They a far easier to hide than a panel and pack a good punch.
 
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