Powering Kino's on Standard plugs

bcheong

bcheong

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I was wondering how you would power Kinoflos (standard 4bank and 2bank type) off standard edison plugs. I was reading their operating manual from the site and it look like the cable coming out of the ballast is joy cable or whatever that might be.
 
Re: Powering Kino's on Standard plugs

The ballast has an edison plug on it which allows you to plug into any old plug.

Scott
 
Re: Powering Kino's on Standard plugs

Yes.. the kinos actually have a funny looking plug you may be seeing.. that plug goes into the ballast and the ballast has a normal 120v plug like scott says. You can plug in upto 4 banks in 1 standard 15amp breaker with out any problems, as they are very efficent.
 
Re: Powering Kino's on Standard plugs

Cool guys...got it explained to me again today. I think what i was seeing was the head cable (from ballast to light)..that's awesome that I can power it from household plugs.

On another note what do 400HMI Pocket Pars have? Standard as well? I read somewhere you need to ground HMI lights when using them...what would that entail?

In general up to what point/model # do lights work off of standards plugs (tungstens, HMI's, fluro's, etc)

Thanks.
 
Re: Powering Kino's on Standard plugs

Normal edison plug with a ground to power the pocket pars ballast.
 
Re: Powering Kino's on Standard plugs

yeah... I actuall have seen some electrics (those are the lighting dudes on sets) actually drive a stake into the ground to ground the larger HMI's and Gennys.. but its total overkill. pocket pars and low k HMI's all can be grounded normally, through the socket.
 
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