Broncolor Pulso 606 6000ws head 1 by Nokton48, on Flickr
Fifteen years ago I walked into Midwest Photo on High Street on a Saturday, and they had: two Broncolor 606 220V power packs 6000ws each. And four Pulso 606 heads that can each handle 6000ws. Here is one of them. And a 6000ws Pulso Hazylight head, complete with diffuser and grid screen as well. Hazylight was mounted on a crane-like Matthews Tripod Rolling Stand, with an overhead boom for the UK Broncolor division. Plus a very expensive Theatrical Spotlight hacked to hold another 606 head. It also had a seperate cooling fan with AC plug to keep the unit cool. Plus lots of parts and doodads, snapped it all up for $600 BTW 12,000 ws in one pop is like one hundred and twenty Vivitar 283s all popping at once. Pity the poor professional models who had to look into these. Been there and done that
Larry at Broncolor Service asked me if I had any idea present value money would price these 606 packs at? He floored me, over $100,000 each, and there is always one of these "back in the corner" of the old commercial studios. Larry called the 606's "The Iron Horse" which just keeps going and going and going. I had dual 220V inputs installed in the studio and yes I had these fired up for a while. Great big strobes WOW it makes a pop when two of these go off at once. I had a lot of help from knowledgable others to fairly safely done this back at the time.
This 606 head is mounted on a vintage FOBA multiple light stand made from old FOBA Combitubes.
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