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[quote=Davyx]Anyway, the installed gobowheel fits to me. For the age of the scanner (mine is from 1990) they are very well designed and still usable. Not like those new fixtures which horrible gobos. They have a modern design, usable for decoration, but not to get any nice beams!

And that is exactly why I never updated my wheels . . . . I would not have minded being able to get ahold of a set of the wider lenses for mine, since I end up in some places with pretty low fly heights, but they are *really* scarce, and the only ones I have seen have been *very* expensive!

Not sure on the power board on the 400, and due to the lower wattage they may be fine, but as I mentioned earlier, on the 700, they use headers and plug on connectors on the power board, and they are notorious for burning and failing, and often you can't see the damage until you unmate the connector. If you have that style connectors on your 400s, you might want to inspect them all. On my 700s, after the first few failures, they were all replaced with headers that basically look just like what was there originally, but without the connector - you insert the wire and tighten the screw. A bit more work to replace a board, but considering that is about the only failure I ever had with any regularity, it's not much of an issue . . .

- Tim

[quote=Davyx]Anyway, the installed gobowheel fits to me. For the age of the scanner (mine is from 1990) they are very well designed and still usable. Not like those new fixtures which horrible gobos. They have a modern design, usable for decoration, but not to get any nice beams!

And that is exactly why I never updated my wheels . . . . I would not have minded being able to get ahold of a set of the wider lenses for mine, since I end up in some places with pretty low fly heights, but they are *really* scarce, and the only ones I have seen have been *very* expensive!

Not sure on the power board on the 400, and due to the lower wattage they may be fine, but as I mentioned earlier, on the 700, they use headers and plug on connectors on the power board, and they are notorious for burning and failing, and often you can't see the damage until you unmate the connector. If you have that style connectors on your 400s, you might want to inspect them all. On my 700s, after the first few failures, they were all replaced with headers that basically look just like what was there originally, but without the connector - you insert the wire and tighten the screw. A bit more work to replace a board, but considering that is about the only failure I ever had with any regularity, it's not much of an issue . . .

- Tim