OliviaPazdera Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 Will a Kino Flo be alright if it is dropped onto hard concrete ground from about 1.5 metres high? It was a simple accident that could've happened to anyone, but will the light still be ok, and how can you check to see if it it running to it's lighty best? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Savige Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 Will a Kino Flo be alright if it is dropped onto hard concrete ground from about 1.5 metres high?It was a simple accident that could've happened to anyone, but will the light still be ok, and how can you check to see if it it running to it's lighty best? Olivia, Kino Flo's arent generally designed to be dropped however it may be alright. When you return the light to your rental house tell the staff there and they should be able to fix it. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Jensen Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 Will a Kino Flo be alright if it is dropped onto hard concrete ground from about 1.5 metres high?It was a simple accident that could've happened to anyone, but will the light still be ok, and how can you check to see if it it running to it's lighty best? Does it work? Is anything visibly broken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff woods Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but it's kind of sounding like you want us to help you deny something happened to the light if the rental house questions the health of its gear. -j Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathew Rudenberg Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 depends, did you drop the fixture, the ballast, both? you could get lucky - I saw a 6k drop off a condor (when the junior pin on the light broke off) and the lamp, lens and globe were fine... (okay, the basket was at the ground for de-rigging, but still) I've seen kinos knocked around a lot and work fine - if it's still lighting up and looks normal it's prob still good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Keith Walters Posted May 24, 2009 Premium Member Share Posted May 24, 2009 Will a Kino Flo be alright if it is dropped onto hard concrete ground from about 1.5 metres high?It was a simple accident that could've happened to anyone, but will the light still be ok, and how can you check to see if it it running to it's lighty best? Seems like a strange question. If there is no visible damage (broken tubes, wires hanging out etc) why not just plug it in and see what happens? If all the tubes light up and at the same brightness, there's not likely to be anything wrong with it. If you're asking if dropping it could somehow reduce the light output, the answer is no, a Kino-Flo is just a bank of pretty ordinary fluorescent tubes, but with more carefully colour-balanced phosphor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karel Bata Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 You're being trolled... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Keith Walters Posted May 24, 2009 Premium Member Share Posted May 24, 2009 You're being trolled... :D Possibly, although experience has shown that can be a dangerous assumption on forums like this one :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Chad Stockfleth Posted May 26, 2009 Premium Member Share Posted May 26, 2009 Hahaha! I love this thread! If you were to pick a light to drop, the kino is a good choice because the flexible barn doors make it pretty resilient. As others have said, why don't you just turn it on and see? My guess, if this is not trolling, would be that while loading out you dropped the piece of gear and didn't tell anyone or verify that it still worked. Now you're wishing you had! Don't worry, if it comes to it, bulbs aren't that expensive. Now, if you dropped the ballast..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Jensen Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 It's somebody from a rental house trying to catch a light dropper, "You know, I was on a shoot and I dropped a Kino Flo., too. I just stuck it in a box and sent it back." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathew Rudenberg Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 according to the urban dictionary: trolling Hanging one's penis out of the back of a moving vehicle, in the pursuit of poonany, much like fishing. "Hey Fritz, what the hell are you doing back there"? "Leave me the f*** alone. I'm trolling!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Savige Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 according to the urban dictionary: trolling Hanging one's penis out of the back of a moving vehicle, in the pursuit of poonany, much like fishing. "Hey Fritz, what the hell are you doing back there"? "Leave me the f*** alone. I'm trolling!" You learn something new every day. Thanks Matt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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