anyone use speedotron light kits

I am interested in the speedotron light kit: it's like 3K. would this all I need to run a studio.

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I have a set of BROWN LINE Speedotron's. (( GOT THIS FREE )) from my Ad Agency, they were throwing it out. D1204 LV Powerpack and 4 - M11 lights, 2 umbrellas, one softbox and all in a handy but LARGE case. All worked except one light (easy replacement of flashtube/ring). I use 3 and pics are beautiful/oh-my-gawd good. I have 3 light stands from another house cleaning years earlier... not sure what if ever what I'd do with them... Kept em "just in case" and good thing. Dug them out and the studio came together in one night! all 3 had modeling lights and it looks old and beat up but the darn things flash daylight. use a Canon 20D. I was about to order Alien Bees that week - talk about timing!

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I just bought a speedotron 1604 with 4 lamps, and have been informed to purchase a pocket wizard or some sort of wireless flash to save my 20D from being burned out by the power pack surge. anyone know anything about this.

Speedo Black Line is excellent gear, but I am not a fan of using multiple heads on one power pack. It really limits how you control light ratios unless the pack offers controls for each channels light output. The 2400 is great for large commercial studios where you need huge amounts of light for lighting large sets, but for digital photography I think their Force 10 monolights are a better choice. Each head can be set individually for output to give you exactly the ratios you need, and if one unit goes down you still have some functioning flashes. And definitely go for the color corrected flashtube heads, they have a UV blocker which will give you more accurate color.

I was just at Speedotron's office in Chicago today to buy a radio trigger to fire my black line strobes. Transmitter goes into hot shoe, reciever go into power supply. They say it will fire up to 80 feet. Sells for $150 and they gave it to me for $90 and it works great. According to Speedotron the output voltage on my power supply was around 70V. PC sync on 20D is 250V. I have used the strobes hooked to my 20D without problems, I just wanted to get rid of the pc cord.

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