I had six or eight of those old Honeywell Strobonars at one time, two of the high voltage units (800 series) like you are talking about and the rest running on rechargables (700 series); as they were powerful enough to use as location studio units and did not need a truck to haul them around, nor a gas generator to power them. I had a thing called a Simmon Super Charger that would do a rechargable pack from one of those in about 10 minutes. One day I got busy and was not watching and one of the old Honeywell packs melted itself and the charger (the rebuilt packs I had were no problem in it before that). That Eveready 497 was a 510v battery, by the way. They are, think still available, but you would have hell finding a store that stocked them. There was also an RG Pack that used rechargables to produce 510v but it weighted about 4 times what the 497 pack did.
The old Norman 200B's, I still have, are about twice as powerful as the 800 series Honeywell's were; they also recycle in less than 1 sec at full power, and will keep up with a 5fps motor drive at 1/4 power; but they weigh about 12lbs, and the 12v rechargable packs in them are well over a hundred bucks each to replace. You can still buy a version of it, Norman 200C, for something over $1000, it only weigh about 1/2 as much as the 200B did. Anyway a Norman 200B slaved to my Oly C-5050Z P&S is a strange combination. Lots of light though. -graywolf Paul Stenquist wrote: > Speaking of Honeywell, I still have two potato masher Honeywell > strobes -- an 882 and an 890. I sometimes used them in tandem on my > Speed Graphic with two of the Eveready 497 batteries strapped to my > waist. I believe the batteries were 415 volts each. I remember > getting knocked on my butt disconnecting one in the rain at a drag > race. They were also thirty bucks each, and they were disposable. > Think about that next time you feel like complaining about the cost > of flash batteries. But those flashes recycled in less than two > seconds and pumped out a lot of light. More than once I shot street > racing in pitch black midnight light on a country road. The only > thing I could focus on was the headlights. The Honeywells delivered. > Paul > On Feb 10, 2007, at 8:11 PM, J. C. O'Connell wrote: -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
