Kino flo Tubes (lighting) - Looking for Help

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At around the 1:52 mark you will see the style of lighting I am looking to achieve.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-ejyHzz3XE

I am designing a set for a short clip and want to light the scene off camera using this kind of lighting. Can anyone guide me in the right direction on what I need to buy/rent these kind of lights or more so how is it even done.

Thanks a lot.
 
You need Kino T-12 lamps with single or double harness and ballast breakout cables. Really very simple.
 
The first link is great for the lamps. You will also need ballasts 2 or 3 4 bank selects, 2 or three four way breakouts, 12 single bank cables or 6 double bank cables and 12 4 foot harnesses.
 
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You could do this with T8's too. They'll be narrower (1 inch dia. as opposed to 1.5") about half a stop less bright, but the lamps can be had for about $15 a piece and an electronic ballast for two of them for about the same. They'll need to have extra wire added onto them and some connectors that stay in place more securely than the twist locking ones, but this could be cheaper than renting real Kino Flo ballasts.
 
Moseph said:
You could do this with T8's too. They'll be narrower (1 inch dia. as opposed to 1.5") about half a stop less bright, but the lamps can be had for about $15 a piece and an electronic ballast for two of them for about the same. They'll need to have extra wire added onto them and some connectors that stay in place more securely than the twist locking ones, but this could be cheaper than renting real Kino Flo ballasts.
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Isn't there the issue of the flicker and a green cast if you use standard T8's instead of photobulbs?
 
No, Kino Flo makes T8's that are color accurate. Flicker has nothing to do with the lamps, that's just the ballast.
 
Any standard Kino Flo ballast for their 4 bank, 2 bank, or single fixtures will drive their T12's, if you put it on low output you could use it for T8's with some degree of success. They would probably put out excessive green since on the low output setting they're designed to drive 40w T12's (4' T8's are 32w), defeating the purpose of using Kino Flo lamps.
 
Where can I buy the connectors that go onto the ends of the tubes? I've only ever used kino fixtures and never the "guts" to them but have a project where I think it will provide some good vertical fill spread hidden behind door frames, etc..
 
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