Never get your Power Gems mixed up
Did you ever come home from school with another kid’s coat? There was one clothing shop where I grew up, and it sold one type of coat to the town’s entire population of school children. So, parents would diligently sew on a name tag, the kind of label which no nine-year-old checked as they flew out the door at home time.
What has this got to do with high-speed power ballasts for film and TV lighting?
Britain’s six biggest rental houses all stock Power Gems
With Power Gems stocked by Britain’s six biggest lighting equipment rental companies, you face an increased chance of a mix up when transporting equipment to the same film or TV production.
How to make sure a Power Gems, once rented out, finds its way back home?
We provide Pinewood MBS, MBS Studios, Panalux, PKE Lighting, NBCUniversal and Warner Brothers with their logo printed on the front panel label (see below). Their rental stock is fully badged up with the customised labelling in their company colours.
With screen printing on the label by Power Gems, you can tell, at a glance, if it’s your ballast. So you can weed out any rogue interlopers and turf them out, like a week-old football kit.
And, if someone tries to walk off with your ballast, yes, your ballast, you can yell ‘PIIIILLE-ONNN’.
That is the signal for every gaffer, DP and camera operator to throw themselves on to a growing pyramid of crew. Beneath the wriggling arms, legs and bodies, the would-be-thief will rue the day they chose to ignore the label, clearly identifying that, yes, it is, in fact, your ballast.
If you identify with this dilemma, please do get in touch.
Printing your logo on a Power Gems high-speed ballast or our LED range of drivers and controllers is a way of doing therapy on the cheap.
