Has anyone seen this unit. 6000w with only 3900 of usage.

Yeah, its pretty well-known in Hollywood anyway. Why not build one and use the same lamps? I imagine they are just the ceramic R7S sockets like those used in all double-ended 1000w (and below) halogen units.
 
It has crossed my mine, but I was wondering if I would have the time with a new born, and a 21 month old.

She has me up at night, and my 21 month old boy runs me during the day. Thank god for my wife.

I'm left with just enough time on Friday and the weekends to shoot footage. BTW, I will be putting in an order for two of those HMIs. Great looking unit!
 
Yes I understand the baby thing we've been through it too.

If I were going to build this unit by the way, I wouldn't use tungsten. I would use 150w double ended metal halide bulbs. It's really not so much more work and the ballasts are not hard to find either. You would have about the same amount of light output and draw 6 x 150 = 900w. Well under what a normal power circuit at home can handle. Lumen output should be around 60,000 to 70,000. With independently switchable ballasts (which they would be) you could turn them on and off to increase/decrease the output.

Do it in the right way (that is shaped the right way with thought toward accessories) and you could hopefully find a standard softbox or lantern to fit over the device afterwards for when it needs to be soft. In fact, such a light is just like a spacelight in a lot of ways so could be used in the same configurations as spacelights.

Which ones do you like on the HMI's the 150's or 575's?
 
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Not yet. But I have hope that this will happen though. It's just not been demanded much in the high wattage HMI world. What's happening is that the newer technology is filtering upward from the lower wattages first. As its perfected there, they move it up to the next wattage, and so on...

Patience will be the key but there will be many forces driving the HMI into a higher technology like ceramic metal halide. Many people think that HMI is the more advanced technology and CMH is not so but its the other way around. HMI belongs to the older quartz family. Ceramic is the new kid in town and the better, longer lasting technology. As they figure out how to apply it to 575's and eventually 1200's then it will really get more interesting. And bulbs will last longer too.
 
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