On Saturday, October 7, Power Gems eagerly returned to Portland, Oregon, for Gearhead’s Mini Gear Expo, now in its second year. Once again, Gearhead Grip & Rental services opened their doors to a select group of vendors, including Power Gems. Gearhead’s Managing Partner, Joel Stirnkorb, a... Read Full Article
The Power Gems team happily pose with the official T-shirts. The new range has a design for each one of our five service centres. Back in 2014, we wrote about the Power Gems T-shirt and Ben (pictured far right) modelled for us. He’s joined this time round by more of the Power Gems team, and spo... Read Full Article
Power Gems has added Wireless DMX as a standard feature for the range of ballasts we manufacture for K5600 Lighting. The addition of remote control through DMX allows users to control the ballast via a console over a wireless connection. We are the only ballast manufacturer to fit Wireless DMX as... Read Full Article
Power Gems partnered with the China Film Equipment Company to introduce the next generation of high speed ballasts to the Chinese market, at BIRTV in Beijing between 23 and 26 August 2017. As predicted in our preview, the Beijing International Radio, TV & Film Exhibition (BIRTV) trade show di... Read Full Article
Power Gems has one major advantage over other ballast designers. As an independent company, we are not tied to any one manufacturer of lighting fixtures. We designed our latest ballast, the EB57P to power 200W, 400W and 575W lighting fixtures by four different manufacturers: ARRI, Dedo, Kobold and K... Read Full Article
Two young people are making sure the summer holidays are as productive as the rest of the year for Power Gems. Every August we need temporary staff to come in and cover for the holidays, this year we welcome Russell Lea and Joe Axon to Manchester HQ. Russell (aged 18) is back for hi... Read Full Article
