Robe Silverscan
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Topic: Robe Silverscan
Posted By: djgorey
Subject: Robe Silverscan
Date Posted: 20 May 2019 at 3:58pm
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Just wondering if anybody has seen these in action yet? What are people's opinions? Any idea on prices? Ta ------------- Gaffa tape is like the force in Star Wars - there's a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together |
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Posted By: djgorey
Date Posted: 30 June 2019 at 7:19pm
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Bump š
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Posted By: djgorey
Date Posted: 09 October 2019 at 6:53pm
Anybody?!  ------------- Gaffa tape is like the force in Star Wars - there's a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together |
Posted By: James Tengo
Date Posted: 09 October 2019 at 8:11pm
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Nice but.... no one specs scans. So why would a hire company invest in something no one wants? Coloursound still have robe 575xt scans and a handful of trackspots, which have earned their keep years ago, but they only ever go out on āstage zā at festivals - the ones that only need a couple of wagglers - on weekends when you are really scraping the back corner of the warehouse for a gig. But buying new scans in 2019? Maybe for an instal, or a mobile DJ who loves the kit. Not a very big market...
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Posted By: monkeypuzzle
Date Posted: 09 October 2019 at 8:28pm
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Just did the balcony of a very swanky hotel launch with Trackspots last week. The stretch tent that covered it left little height for moving heads and there was no need for an operator... did the job in a way that nothing else could've! It's sad that scans have fallen out of favour, in a venue where there's more wall space than middle of the room space you can create some really good dynamics with them. ------------- blah blah blah blah blah...... |
Posted By: djgorey
Date Posted: 09 October 2019 at 8:31pm
Thatās me! I totally agree with everything you said. Iām in the lucky position of buying for myself with no worries about riders or specs ------------- Gaffa tape is like the force in Star Wars - there's a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together |
James Tengo wrote:Posted By: Bams
Date Posted: 09 October 2019 at 8:36pm
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I remember the goldenscan 4 and cyberlight 2.0 going down the same route. Flashlight imported HES in the Netherlands during that time and they added 24 of the cyber 2.0 or so. Went out almost never and went for a few quiz almost new in case. Friend of me tried to sell 16 Martin 518s last year but the price people were willing to pay was less than renting them out two times. |
Posted By: djgorey
Date Posted: 09 October 2019 at 9:48pm
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Thereās a set of 4 Martin 918ās on eBay for £1,500 and a set of 4 miniscan HPEās for < £300. I love my scanners (although punters are more impressed with my LED sticks). I was just born about 15 years too late so all the really good scanners are no longer made. Thatās why Iām excited by the Robe ------------- Gaffa tape is like the force in Star Wars - there's a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together |
Posted By: Bams
Date Posted: 10 October 2019 at 8:01am
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A good scan outperformes a moving head in most smaller settings is my opinion.. one people almost forgot about is the Technobeam I.. still a great workhorse and with a 200w msd source not too power hungry.. The Robe looks great on paper. Would be my weapon of choice for a retro-rave
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Posted By: djgorey
Date Posted: 10 October 2019 at 8:17am
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Iām just trying to find out how much they are and where I can see one. Usual google search doesnāt seem to help much ------------- Gaffa tape is like the force in Star Wars - there's a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together |
Posted By: djgorey
Date Posted: 10 October 2019 at 8:21am
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Just as a thought, does anybody know if I can swap around the hanging bracket on a MiniScan so itās on the mirror side of the unit, rather than the back? My lighting poles are simply poles with a M10 socket in the top so my current scanners just bolt on and stand up right ------------- Gaffa tape is like the force in Star Wars - there's a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together |
Posted By: IainB
Date Posted: 10 October 2019 at 9:20am
That must be the white ones, which have been for sale for getting on 2 years I think!
Yes - the hanging bracket is totally removable, so there isnt anything to stop you moving it back to front. I still need to finish the LED conversion on mine, as they are power hungry little beasts. The Blue Room has an interesting thread on the conversion. The nights I run are 'retro' so having original era correct lighting is a bonus
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Posted By: woody2
Date Posted: 10 October 2019 at 9:23am
have a few clay paky spheriscan- made plenty of money out of them |
Posted By: djgorey
Date Posted: 10 October 2019 at 11:04am
Indeed they are. I keep on looking and they will ship them too me as well
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I want the 300w discharge in there and, if I got some, would run decent power to them, but I am not technically minded at all so would need someone to be my "lighting guy/lady" that I could pass them to when they break. I did a gig recently where I had my Chauvet scanners up and the AV crew put in a 250w discharge Robe moving head. The Robe was brighter, but not by a massive amount, but some of the colours were significantly better on the Robe. I like scanners, I just want better ones. Whether or not the MiniScans on ebay are them, I don't know. ------------- Gaffa tape is like the force in Star Wars - there's a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together |
Posted By: csg
Date Posted: 11 October 2019 at 9:14am
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For all those people running Miniscans you can more than half the power consumption by applying power factor correction. A 35 microfarad pf capacitor placed between the L and N inlets will do this. Back in the days where i had dozens of miniscans we made up a load of suitable boxes to do this and it made powering the rigs significantly easier. Ive got no idea why clay Paky never did this themselves, i guess it would have made the case slightly larger but only slightly. ------------- āThe fact is this is about identifying what we do best and finding more ways of doing less of it betterā |
Posted By: djgorey
Date Posted: 11 October 2019 at 9:59am
I have a mate whoās an electronics engineer so heād be able to do this. I might have to take a punt on the ones on eBay. Take it the lamps are still available? ------------- Gaffa tape is like the force in Star Wars - there's a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together |
Posted By: IainB
Date Posted: 11 October 2019 at 10:26am
Google HTI300 - prices vary between £30 and £100
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Posted By: londonavc
Date Posted: 15 October 2019 at 4:39pm
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Hey Ive seen the Silver Scan in use at Plasa, great effect but the price tag will be serious to. According to this link could be RRP price its 5000 euros: https://ees.es/catalogo/robe-lighting/silverscan/" rel="nofollow - https://ees.es/catalogo/robe-lighting/silverscan/ Have used many scanners, you might want to consider following: Eurolite LED TSL 1200 (120w) £400 - £500 Martin Rush Scanner 1 (90w) £880 - £1000 Showtec Shark Scan One (100w) £325 - £400 Chauvet 305 Scans/Barrels (60w) £400 Ive used the TSL 1200 and its impressive to say the least!!! Hope this helps. |
Posted By: djgorey
Date Posted: 15 October 2019 at 5:25pm
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That does indeed help a lot! Thank you š 5,000ā¬ is well out of my price range. Iāve got the Chauvet 305 scans at the moment so it was something better than them that I was looking for. Brighter, motorised focus and easily inter-changeable gobos essentially. Have you seen the Martin in action? The LED is 50% more powerful, but I donāt know how that relates to light on the dance floor, especially when the rest of the optics is taken into consideration. The Eurolite looks like great value too. ------------- Gaffa tape is like the force in Star Wars - there's a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together |