Pictures from the 2016 NAB Show, all over for another year. Power Gems were in Vegas having a tremendous time, making new contacts and meeting up with old friends, such as Innovative Dimmers who provide technical support for Power Gems customers from Atlanta. The world’s largest annual conferen... Read Full Article
What’s the maximum length of head feeder you can attach to a ballast? As a rule of thumb we say 100m/300ft. Our friends, LRX Lighting in Canada have been testing this assertion with 350ft head feeders running up a huge crane, and all that in -20°C/-4°F conditions! Having tried a competitor’s p... Read Full Article
Many of you prefer to rent Power Gems high speed ballasts as and when you need them, confident of being able to hire the highest quality equipment and latest technology for specific projects. There’s a whole swathe of new film and TV releases that have taken advantage of the stock of HMI ballas... Read Full Article
Power Gems presents THE most powerful high speed ballast on the market offering high-speed shooting at 1,000Hz. Previously only available to 18kW, the latest addition to the Power Gems range has been developed for those of our customers who use 24kW fixtures. The introduction of this product ackn... Read Full Article
Power Gems grabbed the opportunity to call on a number of film equipment companies on the West Coast of America, to showcase the refreshed and redesigned range. Phil and Patrick took along pre-production models of the latest edition, the 18kW with 1,000Hz, to demonstrate its ability to autoscan f... Read Full Article
Power Gems are back from America, and a successful trip to Live Design International (LDI) in Las Vegas (23-25 October). We came away from the biggest entertainment lighting show with a number of substantial orders, and much interest from beyond our immediate network of contacts in the film and T... Read Full Article
