Hello again!

Here is a new short clip. This time it is an "barriera" light fx from coemar, italy. It is a 8 Par alternating bar, bit like a harvester but instead of continous rotation it moves back and for. An yes, I have to change two of the bulbs ;)
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DK1wVgayCs
greetz!

UFO made by Superstar lighting

HELLO!

Here is my newly repaired UFO.

This UFO looks to me very lampo style when I see the fotos so I say hey, buy it, but when I got it I see that it was unlabeled.

Only a small "made in taiwan" sticker on it.

Mmmh?

I see that there are a few minor damages to repair, the stirrup was bended on one side, a carbon brush need to be replaced and the shaft of the headmotor was very unsteady.

The first two are done quickly but the motor need some time. First it was'nt easy to open. Then I took the gear out and clean it all from the old grease. 

Fitting it together it stays unsteady. Mmmmh again. A neighbour take alook at it and see that a small flange sleve had moved upward on the shaft. Take him back to his place and the shaft was nearly stable. Fine!

Then I reasembled the parts and voila, it runs!

Here is a quick and dirty vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBaxyF0Ln3g

As far I can find out with a little help from switzerland this UFO is made in the early nineties in Taiwan by superstar lighting inc.. It was in size and function a real classic UFO. The motors are a bit uncommon in their relative speeds as the head motor runs faster than the base mototr. Therefore you cant create that stop movement when turning the head motor downwards but running all three motors give the UFO a very dynamic movement anyway.

 I am glad to own it.

I need to made a controller for it.

American DJ sunray Nova

Hello!

Today I like to introduce the nova or supernova effect.

Novae are large metal spheres (30cm - 40cm or maybe larger) with hundreds of tiny holes.

Inside they have usually an halogen bulb or an strobe bulb.

A simple but nice effect. Unlike mirrorballs the lightrays goes really into every direction.

This nova is supposedly made by superstar lighting for american dj but it comes unlabeled.

watch moving pictures here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8cDU0zySqw

ProgramSistem Alien

ProgramSistem Alien

Very less to find in the internet. Made in italy in the late 80's. 10 x 150 watt halogen bulbs, sound to light,  moving mirrors, unit is about 1 meter in diameter. Very expansive when new. With two of these you can easily enlight a medium size club location. Good response to sound. Need some rewiring, wire isolation was brittle after all these years, this can be dangerous so have a careful look inside of old babies like this.

Thanx to oldschool_light  for some information and the advertising scan.

visual here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGV8k_Pbg0M

Hello!

Welcome to the 80's lightfx liberation army.

This blog is for all fans of vintage/oldschool light effects from the 80's.

The proposition of this blog is to save this effects from fall into oblivion.

This is my first blog so any help is appreciated.

Kind regards, Rico