[FS: General] Metal Halide lighting set for $600

Duke M.

Duke M.

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This is a like new, set of three Metal Halide lights meant for professional use.

The set includes:

3 heads with light stand mounting hardware
3 power cords
3 transformers (the transformers are self contained in the head)
3 reflectors on speed rings
3 safety scrims
1 barn door
2 vented soft boxes on speed rings with white defusers and storage bags.
4 bulbs in boxes
3 umbrellas (not shown)
1 large latching plastic transportation box (not shown)
3 sheets of 1/4 minus green gel
Each bulb produces the equivilent of 800 watts of light (11300 lumen) but only uses 150 watts of power so its easy to use on a household circuit. Each bulb is good for 8000 hours. The color temperture is 5200k (sunlight is 5600k) and I'm including 3 new sheets of 1/4 minus green gel in case you don't color balance in camera.

Tristar makes the bulbs and additional bulbs are available here, but you shouldn't need any for a long time:
Metal Halide Bulb

[FYI, these lights take 90 seconds to warm up and produce their full output, and when they are shut off they must cool down (5-10 minutes) before restarting them.]

Speed rings latch quickly into place to change the type lighting reflectors. Hit the quick release, give a quarter twist and they pop right out again. In addition to the reflectors, soft boxes, and barn doors there are also 3 brand new reflector umbrellas (not shown in the pictures.)

This set cost about $1,800 new. You can get 2,400 watts of light that will run off wall current at a fraction of the cost of other HID/metal halide sets. I got them from a guy that owed me money, but I don't need an additional lighting set. I want to move them out but I don't want to ship them. Since I'm in Orange county you'll probably want to be from southern California.

MH-Softbox.jpgMH-BarnDoors.JPGMH-Bulb.jpgMH-Mount.jpg

They won't last at this price. PM me if you are interested.
 
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The plastic case is pretty big (~2'x2'x4'), and I wouldn't trust it's strength for shipping, which would mean making an even bigger box. If I have to ship it I will, but it won't be cheap (not heavy just big.) Then again its so much cheaper than the regular cost for these lights that maybe someone will want to pay the shipping no matter what the shipping cost is.

What I don't want to do is bubble wrap everything, build a box and weigh it all just to have someone back out because instead of the $50 they thought it would cost to ship it actually cost $100. (That was just an example. I have no idea what it would cost.)
 
This is a Pro set of HID lights with ballasts and accessories. 800 watts equivilent per light (2400 watts total) but only uses 150 watts per fixture so it can be used on any electrical circuit.

No reasonable offer refused.
 
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Duke M. said:
If you look up HMI sets on ebay you will see that they generally cost $1,500-$2,500 per light when you include the ballast.
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Dude - the lights you're selling aren't HMI's, they're HID's. Alzo sells these exact lights for $269 each, not $1500.

Your price for three of these, an extra bulb and the softboxes is a very good deal; I have three of these and a bulb/ballast combo and they're very useful. No need to suggest they're worth $2500 a pop though...
 
I did say in the first post that this set cost $2,000 new, and I've now edited that to $1,800. Since I didn't buy them and couldn't find them I went by what I was told. Its interesting that HMI and HID are both arc lights. These seem to be HID metal Halide lights. The wattage and light produced are listed accurately.

I had never heard of Alzo before but found their listing of a similar three light kit (not identical) here for $1,852:
http://www.alzovideo.com/alzo_video_hmi_location_kit_studio_i.htm

I found an interesting article here:
http://hdhd411.com/?p=797

And another article here:
http://www.alzovideo.com/why_alzo_hmi_lights.htm
 
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Hi Duke,

I'm interested but would have to see the output of the light before buying. HID lights vary considerably and while these might work for my needs, there's no way to tell without seeing the result.

Color matching across the set is critical--as long as they look the same, even slightly green / warm, we're in business.

Could you set the lights up so all three make distinct shapes on a single wall? Take a still with camera set to 5600K with minus green on and off, proving that color is the same across the board.

Thanks!
Ryan
 
Sorry Ryan, I have two features and a series to shoot all stacked up on the calendar. Things are a bit frantic at the moment. I even thought about it and my only uncovered flat wall is bright red. LOL (I would think any color variation, if any, would be due to a bulb that was out of tolerance. Replacing a bulb isn't a big deal, and I know there is at least one extra bulb.) I just don't have the time to muck about with them.
 
I understand completely, it was a bit of a pain in the *** request honestly. Wondering if there's any work online in which your specific lights were used.

I checked out that link for the bulb but couldn't find any information on it. I would buy these in a second if I could see a spectral emission diagram.

Thanks,
Ryan
 
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