Kino Flo...

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Chris S. Alexander

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Hey guys! I'm doing a shoot in a few weeks and I'm renting a bunch of Kino Flo lighting and I have a question... Do the 2' 4banks and the 4' 4banks have dimmers on them?

If not I'll need to rent a few dimmers... Thanks!
 
IMO, you don't want to use dimmers on fluorescent lights as you will get a huge color shift.
I prefer to use grids and scrims for controlling output with Kino Flo lights.

All the Best!

Dave
 
The kinos I have worked with do not have dimmers on their ballasts, unless they were divas or barflies, but they have individual bulb control, and I much prefer that. In other words, rather than dimming I turn off a few bulbs, and because I usually put some opal or other diffusion on the lamp anyways I don't lose the spread.
 
You can switch individual lamps off on the newer four banks, no dimmer. You cannot use a conventional dimmer on flos. If the switching doesn't work for you and you don't want a diffused look try ND gel.
 
Thanks everyone! I have been on set with these specific lights before, however haven't actually rigged them myself so that's good news that they have individual tube switches. I appreciate your input.
 
Tube switches, yes, but actual dimmers, no, not on the older ones. Not sure if they've redesigned them recently. The Diva lights added dimmers, but the 2-bank and 4-bank didn't have them, at least the versions from, oh, 5+ years ago...
 
Sorry guys. I thought you were asking about 4 bank Divas. The Divas have dimmers for sure. The regular 4 banks don't. Although it seems as though Kino Flo is heading towards adding dimmers to all the new stuff like the Tegra 4Bank.
 
Check the ballasts. The older ones, still plenty of them around, use a single switch that turns on either 2 or 4 banks. The newer ones have 4 switches, one for each tube. Either kind has a separate 2' and 4' toggle switch intended to be set to optimize power for 2' or 4' tubes, but everybody uses that switch to increase or decrease the brightness of whatever length tubes you're using -- you can get more out of 2'-ers and less out of 4'-ers with it. Make sense?
 
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