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For Sale FS: 14,000ws Speedotron Blackline System $2,300 - SW Michigan pick up

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smieglitz

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$2,300 or best reasonable offer for the following well-used, banged-up ugly, but functional 14,400ws Speedotron Black Line package:

Qty - Description

10 - #102 (?) 2400ws fan-cooled heads w/7” reflectors or bulb protectors (all reflectors are banged up ugly)
1 - #202 VF (?) 2400ws fan-cooled head
1 - #105 9600 w/s quadlight head
1 - #106 (?) 4800 w/s head (outer bulb casing broken so UV-rich, but it works, and it works well especially for wetplate)
2 - 2401 power packs
2 - 4803 power packs

2 - 3-light carrying cases (very worn and frayed, ugly)
1 - Remote power dial down
2 - 11” reflectors (all reflectors are banged up ugly)
1 - 20” ugly beauty reflector (all reflectors are banged up ugly)
1 - Grid set 7” (all grids are banged up ugly)
1 - Grid set 11” (all grids are banged up ugly)
1 - Large reflector (all reflectors are banged up ugly)
? - Bulb protectors
4 - Speedotron speed rings
2 - 25’ flash extension cords
1+ - peanut-type flash slave
4 - handmade particle-board tabular stands to keep packs off floor and at arm's length for easy adjustment
there might be a small softbox in that carton that I can include as well

Cosmetically ugly but in working condition and sold as-is.

I'm trying to put together a down payment on a house so selling off some seldom-used equipment. This Speedotron Black Line stuff is all maybe 25 years old (and one 2401 pack might be pushing 50) but it was all working the last time I plugged it in. It was originally purchased, used, and maintained by my former employer who was the most successful commercial photographer in Kalamazoo before he recently retired, so it got a lot of hard, daily use and shows the ugly scars cosmetically. I obtained it when he downsized his studio several years ago (and some of it never came out of that box). I charged the capacitors on the power packs last year and all the packs and big heads were working. I don't use it very much and really don't want to move it again, so I'm hoping it sells quickly.

I used the 4800ws head and 9600ws quadlight for one-pop wetplate. You need a lot of juice for one-pop wetplate at f/5.6-8ish, and these flash heads barely do the trick at 2 meters or thereabouts. Sitters can really feel the air pulse when they go off full-tilt. (I'd like to see what would happen to Trump's rug at 6'.
Or, on second thought, maybe not.)

If anyone is seriously interested, I'll double-check each item to make sure it is still in operating condition (though the price is solid even if there is a flash tube or two or an errant modeling lamp needing replacement on the 10 small heads) and that I have all the model numbers correct. I want to sell it as a package if I can, so offering it all as a package and all as-is at $2,300 net to me or best reasonable offer. It would be a hassle and expensive to ship, so pick-up in Kalamazoo or I'm willing to meet you within a 75-mile radius of Kalamazoo (South Bend, Lansing, GR, etc.) for an extra $50. Since this is a local transaction, cash works. Or, if I need to deliver this, a USPS postal money order sent in advance accepted as payment. Sorry, no Paypal.

Joe
 
Looks like the offer I made on a house was accepted so I could use the proceeds from a sale here to facilitate my move. Therefore bumping the studio flash ad...

What you need if you want to do wetplate with flash.