All of you children with your "speedlights" and your "monolight studio strobes" can sit down. I got a power pack and I'm in charge now.
I misunderstood the guy who gave the setup to me and thought this was a regular Fresnel halogen hot light, designed to run off the modeling light supply from the power pack.
It is not. This is a strobe.
The Norman 10" Fresnel Spotlight provides the dramatic feel of theatrical lighting. If properly used, the FS10 will provide the same quality light of a Tungsten fresnel fixture but with the advantages of strobe lighting, including much more output and daylight color temperature. You can control the mood or add localized light to emphasize subject detail. It produces a brilliant, even light in its flood position, and in spot, has a long throw and a controllable beam.
one or more of the many huge capacitors in the power pack, if stored for a long time without use, might explode violently when I plug it in and turn it on.
if I unplug a flash head without turning off and discharging the power pack, it will arc violently, destroying the connectors on both sides.
if something goes wrong with the power pack, flipping the power level switches can arc violently, destroying the switch.
if something goes seriously wrong with the power pack, it can put Voltage on the sync connector, energizing the shutter if it's hardwired. I'm not sure if that's 120v line power or 900v flash power.
if I fire it too fast at high power without installing blowers on the flash heads, it will melt or shatter the flash heads.
I love this thing already.
