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    Posted: 15 October 2019 at 5:25pm
That does indeed help a lot! Thank you šŸ˜Š 

5,000ā‚¬ is well out of my price range. 

Iā€™ve 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 donā€™t 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. 
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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/


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.
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Originally posted by djgorey djgorey wrote:

Take it the lamps are still available?

Google HTI300 - prices vary between £30 and £100 
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Originally posted by csg csg wrote:

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. 

I have a mate whoā€™s an electronics engineer so heā€™d be able to do this. I might have to take a punt on the ones on eBay. Take it the lamps are still available?
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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.
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Originally posted by IainB IainB wrote:

Originally posted by djgorey djgorey wrote:

a set of 4 miniscan HPEā€™s for < £300.

That must be the white ones, which have been for sale for getting on 2 years I think!Ā Ā 


Indeed they are. I keep on looking and they will ship them too me as well
Originally posted by IainB IainB wrote:

Originally posted by djgorey djgorey wrote:

Just as a thought, does anybody know if I can swap around the hanging bracket on a MiniScan so itā€™s on the mirror side of the unit, rather than the back?


Yes - the hanging bracket is totally removable, so there isnt anything to stop you moving it back to front.


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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


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.
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Originally posted by James Tengo James Tengo wrote:

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 ā€stage 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...


have a few clay paky spheriscan- made plenty of money out of them
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Originally posted by djgorey djgorey wrote:

a set of 4 miniscan HPEā€™s for < £300.

That must be the white ones, which have been for sale for getting on 2 years I think!  

Originally posted by djgorey djgorey wrote:

Just as a thought, does anybody know if I can swap around the hanging bracket on a MiniScan so itā€™s on the mirror side of the unit, rather than the back?

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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Just as a thought, does anybody know if I can swap around the hanging bracket on a MiniScan so itā€™s 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
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Iā€™m just trying to find out how much they are and where I can see one. Usual google search doesnā€™t seem to help much 
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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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Thereā€™s a set of 4 Martin 918ā€™s on eBay for £1,500 and a set of 4 miniscan HPEā€™s 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. Thatā€™s why Iā€™m excited by the Robe
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