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Saturday, January 17, 2009
Porter's Big Lie
I follow a lot of investment analysts--one of the most interesting in his writing and his ideas is Porter Stansberry. One reason he's so interesting is that he has very iconoclastic ideas about many things, and enjoys expressing them in sometimes very creative and colorful ways. I don't always agree with him, and in fact so disagreed with something I saw today that I was moved to write a reply. My reply is below, followed by the original post by Stansberry.
Porter may very likely be right in his stock market analysis regarding solar stocks--that their green fashion popularity has led to "wildly inflated prices", and that they're due for a fall whenever the bubble breaks.
But his pseudo scientific reasoning that "it is impossible to efficiently use solar power and always will be, thanks to the Second Law of Thermodynamics" is the kind of absolutist babble that I'd expect from a ranting talk radio host, not from a sober investment analyst.
Yes the 2nd law of thermodynamics states that a closed system moves inexorably to greater and greater entropy, or disorder. Presumably even the universe as a whole closed system does the same.
But the universe is very spacious, and has plenty of room where order can be increased in subsections. All life, and particularly human civilization, operates in opposition to entropy, to increase order. Entropy can indeed decrease locally, and in fact our life depends on it.
Despite Porter's attempt to hijack the 2nd law of thermodynamics to his argument against solar power, it doesn't prevent photovoltaic cells or wind turbines or tidal systems or hydroelectric systems from concentrating and outputting useful power. No more than it prevented green plant life over eons past from using photosynthesis to concentrate solar energy into fossil fuel deposits that we're now burning up.
Whether oil goes back up past $200 and beyond in a year or two, or in a decade or two, it certainly will eventually. The earth's petroleum and natural gas is a very finite, very precious resource, and ultimately more valuable for petrochemical uses than for burning up. It's only after a century's worth of private investment and government subsidies (including wars fought for oil) that we now have, temporarily, this month's $40/barrel oil. So it's urgent to be about investing in alternatives. Of course it's reasonable to critically examine the economics of the choices, including the second order costs. In the case of the hydrocarbon based energy system, the second order costs that have been borne by society, including a large share of the military budget, as well as the planetary cataclysm threatened by global warming, have rarely been figured into the equation.
Whether a given solution makes sense economically, now or in the future, is essential to consider. There's plenty of room for discussion as to what are the best ways to go forward toward a long term sustainable solution for our energy needs. It just doesn't advance the discussion to disallow photovoltaic solar energy with the specious argument that it violates the Laws of Thermodynamics.
(Michael Penn Smith)
(Original post by Porter Stansberry, in Daily Wealth)
You Can Make Money from Al Gore's Big Lie
By Porter Stansberry
This past week, I encouraged my Put Strategy Report subscribers to establish a short position in solar stocks.
Solar stocks are popular right now... so they have wildly inflated share prices. And I know the entire solar industry is a big con – it is impossible to efficiently use solar power and it always will be, thanks to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Governments have tried to break the laws of physics because solar energy is popular, but all the subsidies in the world will never make solar energy viable as a reliable and efficient source of energy. That means solar stocks are ultimately doomed.
Meanwhile, even in the short term, so much money has been spent building solar-panel manufacturing facilities that the price of solar panels is falling below their cost of production – which will mean a terrible year for the makers of solar panels, especially the largest companies.
I'm facing a lot of skeptics who believe what Al Gore has told them about solar energy. But once you know the only real buyers of solar panels are governments (through subsidies and large direct purchases), you should immediately suspect the promise of solar power isn't what it's cracked up to be.
If everyone could power their homes by putting solar panels on the roof, everyone would want to do it. We wouldn't need tax incentives. Of course, that's not how it works. Instead, the cost to install and maintain a solar system far exceeds the economic value of what it provides. And the reason is basic physics, specifically the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
This is nature's version of "there's no such thing as a free lunch." The Second Law says energy moves from more useful forms to less useful forms, from more concentrated and powerful forms to more disparate and less powerful forms. In short, machines that promise to bring us the power of the sun by harnessing its rays won't work because by the time the sun's rays reach the Earth, not much useful energy is left. That energy won't return to a more concentrated form without the input of just as much additional power. You can't simply "reconcentrate" sunlight in any useful way. The concept breaks the fundamental laws of nature.
I'm not the only person who has doubted the functional utility of solar power. Another skeptic is Warren Meyer, who frequently blogs about free market economics, climate nonsense, and solar power, among other topics. Meyer is a Princeton and Harvard Business School graduate, but even those institutions didn't ruin his brain, which tells me he's a very smart guy indeed.
Al Gore has claimed, repeatedly, that if we were to build a 90-mile by 90-mile solar-panel facility in the Southwest desert, we would have enough electricity to power the entire United States. The claim is fantastic. If only we cared enough about the environment to build enough solar panels, then the world would be saved and power would be free! Al Gore is a masterful politician, which is to say he is a complete liar.
Meyer, who worked as an engineer for Exxon and an analyst with McKinsey, decided to run the actual numbers.
I assumed a third of the 8,100 square miles would be dead space between the panels, roads, transformers, access paths, etc. I assumed you put the installation in the best solar sites in the southwest, which yield on average about 6 peak-sun-hour-equivalents a day. I assumed a 20% loss in conversions and transformers. So 8,100 sq miles x 2/3 x 200 watt/12sq ft x 6 hours x 365 days x 80% (with necessary unit conversions thrown in) yields 4.08 billion Megawatt-Hours of electricity, which is about exactly our current US generating capacity. (Way to go! Al got a number right!).
But there's a significant catch. (Remember the Second Law of Thermodynamics...)
This does not cover elimination of fossil fuels in the transportation sector. And it does not address the problem of how you store this power at night, which of course is a catastrophic problem for the idea... Using the assumptions above and assuming that installation costs (with land acquisition, transformers, inverters, roads, mounting, installation, etc) is as much again as the panel costs themselves, the total installation would cost just under $21 trillion dollars. This is orders of magnitude [more than 10 times] more than a nuclear program of the same size would cost. And presupposes the environmentalists would let you cover 5 million acres of desert with metal and silicon.
Solar power isn't the answer to our country's energy needs – and it never will be.
While I don't know (and can't know) how long the current solar mania will last, I am convinced with oil selling for less than $50 a barrel again and with the economics of solar energy more and more apparent, we're near at least a short-term peak in the popularity of solar stocks. Most will fall 50%-75% in the next year or two.
How do you choose which solar stocks to bet against? Just like you would any other sector. Look for the most popular, high-profile players. Look for high price-to-book or price-to-sales ratios. But do it soon... A bet here is a bet on one of the surest trends in 2009.
Good investing,
Porter Stansberry
Porter may very likely be right in his stock market analysis regarding solar stocks--that their green fashion popularity has led to "wildly inflated prices", and that they're due for a fall whenever the bubble breaks.
But his pseudo scientific reasoning that "it is impossible to efficiently use solar power and always will be, thanks to the Second Law of Thermodynamics" is the kind of absolutist babble that I'd expect from a ranting talk radio host, not from a sober investment analyst.
Yes the 2nd law of thermodynamics states that a closed system moves inexorably to greater and greater entropy, or disorder. Presumably even the universe as a whole closed system does the same.
But the universe is very spacious, and has plenty of room where order can be increased in subsections. All life, and particularly human civilization, operates in opposition to entropy, to increase order. Entropy can indeed decrease locally, and in fact our life depends on it.
Despite Porter's attempt to hijack the 2nd law of thermodynamics to his argument against solar power, it doesn't prevent photovoltaic cells or wind turbines or tidal systems or hydroelectric systems from concentrating and outputting useful power. No more than it prevented green plant life over eons past from using photosynthesis to concentrate solar energy into fossil fuel deposits that we're now burning up.
Whether oil goes back up past $200 and beyond in a year or two, or in a decade or two, it certainly will eventually. The earth's petroleum and natural gas is a very finite, very precious resource, and ultimately more valuable for petrochemical uses than for burning up. It's only after a century's worth of private investment and government subsidies (including wars fought for oil) that we now have, temporarily, this month's $40/barrel oil. So it's urgent to be about investing in alternatives. Of course it's reasonable to critically examine the economics of the choices, including the second order costs. In the case of the hydrocarbon based energy system, the second order costs that have been borne by society, including a large share of the military budget, as well as the planetary cataclysm threatened by global warming, have rarely been figured into the equation.
Whether a given solution makes sense economically, now or in the future, is essential to consider. There's plenty of room for discussion as to what are the best ways to go forward toward a long term sustainable solution for our energy needs. It just doesn't advance the discussion to disallow photovoltaic solar energy with the specious argument that it violates the Laws of Thermodynamics.
(Michael Penn Smith)
(Original post by Porter Stansberry, in Daily Wealth)
You Can Make Money from Al Gore's Big Lie
By Porter Stansberry
This past week, I encouraged my Put Strategy Report subscribers to establish a short position in solar stocks.
Solar stocks are popular right now... so they have wildly inflated share prices. And I know the entire solar industry is a big con – it is impossible to efficiently use solar power and it always will be, thanks to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Governments have tried to break the laws of physics because solar energy is popular, but all the subsidies in the world will never make solar energy viable as a reliable and efficient source of energy. That means solar stocks are ultimately doomed.
Meanwhile, even in the short term, so much money has been spent building solar-panel manufacturing facilities that the price of solar panels is falling below their cost of production – which will mean a terrible year for the makers of solar panels, especially the largest companies.
I'm facing a lot of skeptics who believe what Al Gore has told them about solar energy. But once you know the only real buyers of solar panels are governments (through subsidies and large direct purchases), you should immediately suspect the promise of solar power isn't what it's cracked up to be.
If everyone could power their homes by putting solar panels on the roof, everyone would want to do it. We wouldn't need tax incentives. Of course, that's not how it works. Instead, the cost to install and maintain a solar system far exceeds the economic value of what it provides. And the reason is basic physics, specifically the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
This is nature's version of "there's no such thing as a free lunch." The Second Law says energy moves from more useful forms to less useful forms, from more concentrated and powerful forms to more disparate and less powerful forms. In short, machines that promise to bring us the power of the sun by harnessing its rays won't work because by the time the sun's rays reach the Earth, not much useful energy is left. That energy won't return to a more concentrated form without the input of just as much additional power. You can't simply "reconcentrate" sunlight in any useful way. The concept breaks the fundamental laws of nature.
I'm not the only person who has doubted the functional utility of solar power. Another skeptic is Warren Meyer, who frequently blogs about free market economics, climate nonsense, and solar power, among other topics. Meyer is a Princeton and Harvard Business School graduate, but even those institutions didn't ruin his brain, which tells me he's a very smart guy indeed.
Al Gore has claimed, repeatedly, that if we were to build a 90-mile by 90-mile solar-panel facility in the Southwest desert, we would have enough electricity to power the entire United States. The claim is fantastic. If only we cared enough about the environment to build enough solar panels, then the world would be saved and power would be free! Al Gore is a masterful politician, which is to say he is a complete liar.
Meyer, who worked as an engineer for Exxon and an analyst with McKinsey, decided to run the actual numbers.
I assumed a third of the 8,100 square miles would be dead space between the panels, roads, transformers, access paths, etc. I assumed you put the installation in the best solar sites in the southwest, which yield on average about 6 peak-sun-hour-equivalents a day. I assumed a 20% loss in conversions and transformers. So 8,100 sq miles x 2/3 x 200 watt/12sq ft x 6 hours x 365 days x 80% (with necessary unit conversions thrown in) yields 4.08 billion Megawatt-Hours of electricity, which is about exactly our current US generating capacity. (Way to go! Al got a number right!).
But there's a significant catch. (Remember the Second Law of Thermodynamics...)
This does not cover elimination of fossil fuels in the transportation sector. And it does not address the problem of how you store this power at night, which of course is a catastrophic problem for the idea... Using the assumptions above and assuming that installation costs (with land acquisition, transformers, inverters, roads, mounting, installation, etc) is as much again as the panel costs themselves, the total installation would cost just under $21 trillion dollars. This is orders of magnitude [more than 10 times] more than a nuclear program of the same size would cost. And presupposes the environmentalists would let you cover 5 million acres of desert with metal and silicon.
Solar power isn't the answer to our country's energy needs – and it never will be.
While I don't know (and can't know) how long the current solar mania will last, I am convinced with oil selling for less than $50 a barrel again and with the economics of solar energy more and more apparent, we're near at least a short-term peak in the popularity of solar stocks. Most will fall 50%-75% in the next year or two.
How do you choose which solar stocks to bet against? Just like you would any other sector. Look for the most popular, high-profile players. Look for high price-to-book or price-to-sales ratios. But do it soon... A bet here is a bet on one of the surest trends in 2009.
Good investing,
Porter Stansberry
Friday, November 28, 2008
Simpleology--No, not Scientology--Simpleology
There's an internet marketer, author, and amateur but accomplished philosopher/thinker named Mark Joyner. He's got lots of irons in the fire online, but one that I think would be interesting and beneficial to most people is called Simpleology, "The Simple Science of Getting What You Want."
At one level it's a self-organization, task-managing system, a glorified TODO list system. But it's also much more than that, because it's carefully and shrewdly design to help you step around a lot of the potholes and boulders and subtler monsters that prevent people from getting organized, motivated, and getting things done. Check it out: www.simpleology.com
The preceding paragraph is some code for a piece of blogging coursework that I'm wanting to check it out.
At one level it's a self-organization, task-managing system, a glorified TODO list system. But it's also much more than that, because it's carefully and shrewdly design to help you step around a lot of the potholes and boulders and subtler monsters that prevent people from getting organized, motivated, and getting things done. Check it out: www.simpleology.com
I'm evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they're letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.
It covers:
- The best blogging techniques.
- How to get traffic to your blog.
- How to turn your blog into money.
I'll let you know what I think once I've had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it's still free.
The preceding paragraph is some code for a piece of blogging coursework that I'm wanting to check it out.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Restarting Posting
Many moons have gone by since I last posted here. I did an owner-build project building my house, and instead of the 7 months I planned, it took nearly twice as long. Boy am I glad to be done!
We're west of Dripping Springs, in the hill country west of Austin, and north of San Antonio. Lynda and I are gradually getting settled in. Enjoying having lots of interesting places to go that are nearby. Dallas is relatively limited in that area--the countryside around there just doesn't compare to here.
Sunday we drove over to Fredericksburg, which while a little touristy, is really a neat little town, with lots of old buildings among the oldest in the state.
I've been doing another blog about my ownerbuilding project, hosted at http://www.ownerbuildbook.com/. The full address for my particular blog there is http://www.ownerbuilderbook.com/blogs/users/PennsmithLostValleyTX.aspx
The whole site is a rich deposit of intelligence on how to build your own house, to save money and to insure better quality. There's over 20,000 pages. Anybody who wants to build a house, and has some time flexibility, and at least average common sense, should seriously consider being an owner-builder.
Here's a few pictures from my project:
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Equipment Closeout Sale this Fri/Sat Oct 20-21
Nowadays my work in production is relatively streamlined as a freelance cameraman and Stanton Triangle Jib owner-operator.
But from my former life with Texas Production Facility and RGB Post, there still remains lots of equipment that I’ve never sold, and it’s overflowing my garage/studio.
It’s definitely time to clear it out, so I’m having my Final Closeout Sale this weekend, Friday-Saturday, Oct 20-21. (9-6 each day)
Whatever’s left after this will go to the Ebay store.
Surplus Equipment for SALE
All Prices Reduced! or MAKE OFFERS
pennsmith@bigplanet.com
214 339 3237
CAMERAS, LENSES, Accessories
JVC JY-HD10 HDV camcorder, w/ 3 batts, 2 chargers $1,895
Sony PVV-3 Beta SP dockable deck 2,795
Canon Super 8mm Film Camera w 7.5-60mm zoom 295
Ikegami 79EAL camera, Canon 13x9, J-Lab Betadaptor 395
Ikegami MA 79 multicore CCU w RGB outputs, inc.
inc. 2 l00’ cables, and MA-79E camera adaptor 295
Toshiba IK-C30A ice cube cam, with C mount lenses, etc. 445
Sony SSC-520AM security cam 49
Fujinon 14 x 8.5 Lens (2/3” Sony mount) 1,795
Fujinon CFH-1 Rear Focus Control w cable,FMM-6A keeper 185
Fujinon Rear Zoom Control SRD52B 445
Canon ZSD-300M Variable Speed Rear Zoom Control 695
Century WideAngle Adaptor (.7 &.5) 395
Fujinon WA (.8x) Converter (fits 90 mm front element) 395
Tiffen WideAngle Lens Shade (Holds 4.5” Round) 99
Petroff 4x4 Matte Box with Fujinon attachment bracket 545
Victor Duncan 6x6 Matte Box, with case, lots access. 645
Filters Series 9 Fogs, Diff, Stars,LowCons, Diopters, etc 25
Filters 4x4” & 4x5” White ProMist, Black Dot, Fogs,Grads,etc 40
Filters 4.5” Round Star, Diopters, Dbl Fog, Low Con 40
Sony BC210 BP-90 charger 99
Sony BC1WB NP-1B charger 149
Sony BC-410 NP and BP smart charger 295
Astron RS-7A 12v power supply 99
BNC cables and RGB BNC cables $5 to 15
Portabrace camera case 99
Raincovers, Sony and Portabrace each 20
Sony 2m and 10 m 26 pin cam/recorder cable $15 & 30
Sharp VR-SP100 underwater splash housing 20
RECORDERS
Sony PVV-3 Beta SP dockable deck $2,795
Sony VO-9800 w TC U-matic (3/4”) recorder 895
JVC BR-S611U SVHS recorder 495
JVC BR S710U SVHS recorder (2 avail) 395
YCP-BCR TBC controller for UVW 1800, etc. 145
CD Players Technics SL-P170, Toshiba XR-35 20
LIGHTS & GRIP
Anton Bauer Sungun $75
Mole 2K Rotary Dimmer (inductive coil) 75
M-R rolling studio Junior stand, lowboy 50
Side Arms, Junior or Baby 10
Baby and Midget Snoots each 5
Junior, Baby, and Midget wire scrims each 5
Junior “Tree” Bracket (3 available) 45
CASES: Mole,Anvil,Calzone, SKB, Thermodyne,Portabrace $10 to $95
Electric Feeder Cable, per lb 25cents
Rolling Cart for C-stands, flags, etc $45
Monitor Carts, rolling, metal 46” high, 3 avail each 35
Folding tables 2’x4’, 2’ x 6’ or 2’ x 8’ each 20
Legal Size file cabinets, 2 high each $20
Ladder, 4’ 10
Exercise Bike 65
Electric Bike, Folds to store 195
Dodge Caravan Bench or Quad Captains seat 95
SUPPORT, STEADICAM
SACHTLER Video 20 II, 2-Riser Alum tripod, spreader $3,395
STEADICAM Video SK 4,795
Rolling Triangles for tripods 25 to 120
Pair of Universal I-Beam Sleds-Quick run any dolly on track 595
O’Connor 30 fluid head, Lisand Alum legs, integral spreader 795
Vinten Alum. Legs, 100mm clawball, 2 Riser w/ spreader 395
Sachtler Alum Legs, with heavy duty spreader 495
Ronford Baby Legs, aluminum 275
Bencher M3 copystand 295
Tripod cases—hard tubular or Portabrace soft 75
EDIT, TERMINAL
Ensemble Designs Serial Box III analog to SDI $599
Ensemble Designs Serial Box II SDI to analog 599
FOR A CT-600 Transcoder 299
I-DEN IVT-9 PLUS transcoding digital TimeBaseCorrector 549
Microtime TX3 transcoding digital TBC w/ remote 699
Ultimatte 4 keying device 599
Covid 8x1 component router (2 avail) each 199
Hedco 16x1 audio/video router 149
Sigma VSS-120 video/stereo audio router 199
Lenco PS 467 12x video router 199
Opamp Labs V-44 4 channel video DA 99
Abekas-Cox VX164 16x4 component routing switcher,
8 chs. Audio, 4 chs video-R,G,B, and key 699
Adrienne Electronics AEC-Box-2 wideband LTC reader
w/ RS232/432 serial interface 149
Horita TCG-50 time code reader generator inserter 89
Horita Safe Title Generator 89
Horita VLT VITC/LTC transcoder 89
Horita RLT remote LTC transcoder 89
Lenco 300 rack power supply with modules 349
Lenco Starflex 3020 power rack w/ 4-3500 VDA, 3520, 3260
transcoder, 3120 master CRS, 3420 CRS/BB slave 549
Allen Avionics Video Delay 0-255 NANOsecs 59
AUDIO
Shure SM90 “PZM” mic (2 avail) each 149.
Lectrosonics Pro 4 Mult Box, Comtek antenna 195
Anchor Liberty MPB-4500 powered PA, mstr&slave, stands 875
TAC Bullet 10-4-2 mixer console 245
Clearcom KB112 Speaker Station 95
Clearcom IF4B 4 wire interface 95
Lexicon MRC midi remote control 70
DBX 140x Type 2 noise reduction 145
DBX 263X De-esser 145
Lenco PAF-467 audio switcher (mates w/PS 467) 145
Omnicraft GT-4A 4 ch thresh/range/release 145
XLR cables, 25’ and 50’ $8-12
Gitzo Boom Pole 12’ 145
Boom Pole 12’ 145
MONITORS
Mitsubishi 1281 high res CRT projector, HD capable $795
Sony Watchman Receiver/monitor 3”LCD color 99
Barco CVS51 19” RGB engineering mon. 149
Shibasoki 19” engineering monitor 149
Panasonic 19” RGB Monitor 199
Hitachi CM182U 19” monitor 90
Daewoo 27” TV 99
Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 20 computer monitor 99
Tektronix 528A Waveform Monitor 99
Tektronix 475 test oscilloscope 375
Videotek TVM 620 Waveform/Vector scope 375
HUNDREDS additional ITEMS $1 to $20
(inc. Pentium computers & monitors, Hoodman’s, charts,
quartz lamps, XLR/BNC/etc cables, connectors, mics, cases,
office supplies, framed wall art, etc.) $1 to $20
But from my former life with Texas Production Facility and RGB Post, there still remains lots of equipment that I’ve never sold, and it’s overflowing my garage/studio.
It’s definitely time to clear it out, so I’m having my Final Closeout Sale this weekend, Friday-Saturday, Oct 20-21. (9-6 each day)
Whatever’s left after this will go to the Ebay store.
Surplus Equipment for SALE
All Prices Reduced! or MAKE OFFERS
pennsmith@bigplanet.com
214 339 3237
CAMERAS, LENSES, Accessories
JVC JY-HD10 HDV camcorder, w/ 3 batts, 2 chargers $1,895
Sony PVV-3 Beta SP dockable deck 2,795
Canon Super 8mm Film Camera w 7.5-60mm zoom 295
Ikegami 79EAL camera, Canon 13x9, J-Lab Betadaptor 395
Ikegami MA 79 multicore CCU w RGB outputs, inc.
inc. 2 l00’ cables, and MA-79E camera adaptor 295
Toshiba IK-C30A ice cube cam, with C mount lenses, etc. 445
Sony SSC-520AM security cam 49
Fujinon 14 x 8.5 Lens (2/3” Sony mount) 1,795
Fujinon CFH-1 Rear Focus Control w cable,FMM-6A keeper 185
Fujinon Rear Zoom Control SRD52B 445
Canon ZSD-300M Variable Speed Rear Zoom Control 695
Century WideAngle Adaptor (.7 &.5) 395
Fujinon WA (.8x) Converter (fits 90 mm front element) 395
Tiffen WideAngle Lens Shade (Holds 4.5” Round) 99
Petroff 4x4 Matte Box with Fujinon attachment bracket 545
Victor Duncan 6x6 Matte Box, with case, lots access. 645
Filters Series 9 Fogs, Diff, Stars,LowCons, Diopters, etc 25
Filters 4x4” & 4x5” White ProMist, Black Dot, Fogs,Grads,etc 40
Filters 4.5” Round Star, Diopters, Dbl Fog, Low Con 40
Sony BC210 BP-90 charger 99
Sony BC1WB NP-1B charger 149
Sony BC-410 NP and BP smart charger 295
Astron RS-7A 12v power supply 99
BNC cables and RGB BNC cables $5 to 15
Portabrace camera case 99
Raincovers, Sony and Portabrace each 20
Sony 2m and 10 m 26 pin cam/recorder cable $15 & 30
Sharp VR-SP100 underwater splash housing 20
RECORDERS
Sony PVV-3 Beta SP dockable deck $2,795
Sony VO-9800 w TC U-matic (3/4”) recorder 895
JVC BR-S611U SVHS recorder 495
JVC BR S710U SVHS recorder (2 avail) 395
YCP-BCR TBC controller for UVW 1800, etc. 145
CD Players Technics SL-P170, Toshiba XR-35 20
LIGHTS & GRIP
Anton Bauer Sungun $75
Mole 2K Rotary Dimmer (inductive coil) 75
M-R rolling studio Junior stand, lowboy 50
Side Arms, Junior or Baby 10
Baby and Midget Snoots each 5
Junior, Baby, and Midget wire scrims each 5
Junior “Tree” Bracket (3 available) 45
CASES: Mole,Anvil,Calzone, SKB, Thermodyne,Portabrace $10 to $95
Electric Feeder Cable, per lb 25cents
Rolling Cart for C-stands, flags, etc $45
Monitor Carts, rolling, metal 46” high, 3 avail each 35
Folding tables 2’x4’, 2’ x 6’ or 2’ x 8’ each 20
Legal Size file cabinets, 2 high each $20
Ladder, 4’ 10
Exercise Bike 65
Electric Bike, Folds to store 195
Dodge Caravan Bench or Quad Captains seat 95
SUPPORT, STEADICAM
SACHTLER Video 20 II, 2-Riser Alum tripod, spreader $3,395
STEADICAM Video SK 4,795
Rolling Triangles for tripods 25 to 120
Pair of Universal I-Beam Sleds-Quick run any dolly on track 595
O’Connor 30 fluid head, Lisand Alum legs, integral spreader 795
Vinten Alum. Legs, 100mm clawball, 2 Riser w/ spreader 395
Sachtler Alum Legs, with heavy duty spreader 495
Ronford Baby Legs, aluminum 275
Bencher M3 copystand 295
Tripod cases—hard tubular or Portabrace soft 75
EDIT, TERMINAL
Ensemble Designs Serial Box III analog to SDI $599
Ensemble Designs Serial Box II SDI to analog 599
FOR A CT-600 Transcoder 299
I-DEN IVT-9 PLUS transcoding digital TimeBaseCorrector 549
Microtime TX3 transcoding digital TBC w/ remote 699
Ultimatte 4 keying device 599
Covid 8x1 component router (2 avail) each 199
Hedco 16x1 audio/video router 149
Sigma VSS-120 video/stereo audio router 199
Lenco PS 467 12x video router 199
Opamp Labs V-44 4 channel video DA 99
Abekas-Cox VX164 16x4 component routing switcher,
8 chs. Audio, 4 chs video-R,G,B, and key 699
Adrienne Electronics AEC-Box-2 wideband LTC reader
w/ RS232/432 serial interface 149
Horita TCG-50 time code reader generator inserter 89
Horita Safe Title Generator 89
Horita VLT VITC/LTC transcoder 89
Horita RLT remote LTC transcoder 89
Lenco 300 rack power supply with modules 349
Lenco Starflex 3020 power rack w/ 4-3500 VDA, 3520, 3260
transcoder, 3120 master CRS, 3420 CRS/BB slave 549
Allen Avionics Video Delay 0-255 NANOsecs 59
AUDIO
Shure SM90 “PZM” mic (2 avail) each 149.
Lectrosonics Pro 4 Mult Box, Comtek antenna 195
Anchor Liberty MPB-4500 powered PA, mstr&slave, stands 875
TAC Bullet 10-4-2 mixer console 245
Clearcom KB112 Speaker Station 95
Clearcom IF4B 4 wire interface 95
Lexicon MRC midi remote control 70
DBX 140x Type 2 noise reduction 145
DBX 263X De-esser 145
Lenco PAF-467 audio switcher (mates w/PS 467) 145
Omnicraft GT-4A 4 ch thresh/range/release 145
XLR cables, 25’ and 50’ $8-12
Gitzo Boom Pole 12’ 145
Boom Pole 12’ 145
MONITORS
Mitsubishi 1281 high res CRT projector, HD capable $795
Sony Watchman Receiver/monitor 3”LCD color 99
Barco CVS51 19” RGB engineering mon. 149
Shibasoki 19” engineering monitor 149
Panasonic 19” RGB Monitor 199
Hitachi CM182U 19” monitor 90
Daewoo 27” TV 99
Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 20 computer monitor 99
Tektronix 528A Waveform Monitor 99
Tektronix 475 test oscilloscope 375
Videotek TVM 620 Waveform/Vector scope 375
HUNDREDS additional ITEMS $1 to $20
(inc. Pentium computers & monitors, Hoodman’s, charts,
quartz lamps, XLR/BNC/etc cables, connectors, mics, cases,
office supplies, framed wall art, etc.) $1 to $20
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
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