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Saturday 7th July 2007, 12:00 AM

My brand new lights. 26 kilos of pure pleasure! And the kefuffle to get them was tremendous... ill explain...

I claimed back my bank charges from Natwest since they are cocks and i used to be really bad with money, REALLY bad. I request the amount £854 back from a nice little form you copy and paste online and send it off, simple! I recieved £830 back from Natwest so was very happy with that result.

They came through yesterday, Friday, and begun my quest looking for some brand new lights. I had done alot of research before and came up with with This its a ncie moving head, and had only has one arm, quite nice

so placed the order with a bunch of other stuff and i got a cal about an hour later saying he could get the for me until the second week on august. I proceded to ask why when he said they are still being made! literally! theyre that new. He said look around the site and see if i can find an alternative, and then found item 120139048399 on ebay, please note this link may not be available in the future. Notice the price was £999, £170 over my budget. At this point i thought id be a bit cheeky and no harm would come of it. I emailed the seleer if i could get a pair at £900. To my suprise he emailed me back about a few hours later saying he would, I couldnt believe it! some top of the range lights worth over £600 each, i was getting a brand new pair for £900! Thing is they where pick up only and only about 20 miles away!

Now that all my mates are driving they said wouldnt mind driving me somewhere as long as I paid for the petrol. This was a perfect opportunity. I called paul and he wasnt going to finish till about 5:30 and needed to be there by 6. I then called chris and he finished a little early than i anticipated, so by the time chris had got out of traffic, got home, changed and made his way round here, it was about 6:45 wey past my timing and the man was so generous staying later just for me, i couldnt believe it. It was around Epping way, and took us about half an hour to get there.

We saw the lights and they where huge! they where bigger than my studio speakers, you need to worry when your liights are bigger than your speakers! . Not only that there was a flight case with them, i now look like im going to put someone in it and saw them in half, it looks like a magicians box!

We got it in chris' car (sideways) and made our way back delicately down lots of roads to mine!

Now the technical specs, They are 2 DMX moving heads with 16 channels, and 16 bit resolution, and they do have everything including:

Shutter / Dimmer / Dimmer Fine / Colour / Colour Fine / Gobo / Gobo Rotate / Gobo Rotate Fine / Focus (motorised!) / Blackout whilst Changing / Prism / Pan / Pan Fine / Tilt / Tilt Fine / Pan&Tilt Speed.

Has a 250W discharge lamp, 540 Pan, and i think is about 150 Tilt

My poor controller only has 8 sliders, but fortunately supports 16 so it have 1-8 then 9 to 16, you push a button to trigger it

So why did i buy them?

I am having 3 events this year! The first ones going to be a pool party, the secong going to be called Electrix bases on lights and something of the sort, and i think i may call the last one kiss, not im not too sure what to base the last one on any idea? So far ive had costume party and a naked one

 

Tags: Party, Light, Ebay, Kiss, Electrix, Pool, Party, Chris, Paul

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