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Being a deejay for more than 30 years in several discotheques and venues, made me a great fan of the old vintage 70/80's lighteffects. The most I like the effects which are manufactured with Par36 light bulbs. I like the mecanicsm, I like the noise, I like everything about them. Good scraftsmanship from brands like Coemar, Clay Paky, Nisel and Kremesa.

I try to salvage them, restore them in a good working order and then rent them to a select group of people who know how to handle them and put them to work on my own 70/80's parties.

If you know any forgotten effects, or know somebody who needs information about these things, let me know..I'm connected to a worldwide group of vintage disco lights lovers and we can provide answers to your questions.

Mail me : Info@ricovrijhoeven.eu 


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Fabriluz Double Dice

Never seen this one on the internet and fellow collectors say this is a very rare item. Got it fairly cheap at an auction, together with other lights.
It comes with a universal controller for other Fabriluz, Kreluz, Strong and Cooperluz effects.
The only cool thing is that you can vary the speed of the dice and reverse the direction. The lights in the dice can be switched separately.
It has been in storage for a long time and the reflectors are fairly eroded but I cant rechrome them or replace so I will try to polish them to get some shine back.

 

here's an impression I made..Its a fine jem!

 

Programmisistem Luce Random Scan

Very lucky to get these simple put nice effects and they came in the original carton, with manual and invoice.
Its a simple 4 lamp par 36 6V30W lamp, which as a rotating mirror above each fixture.
The movements of the mirror can be auto triggered or music triggered. In the auto trigger mode, also the lamps go on and off in certain patterns.

Nice standalone effect, which if you have the connecting cable can be used in a master-slave setup

Fal Starlight PF 100

Very rare 8 lens disco ball, which has the same setup as the conventional Fal Lunar 8, but where the Par 36 are orginally replaced by gigantic glass lenses and the light is provided by a 220V 500Watt halogen bulb..enormous light!!

Very happy to have these!!

Coemar Trisball

The second unit I happened to stumble on is probably one of the most rare Coemar ball effects. In the Venus range, the M4 is very rare and expensive. I now know only two collectors that have a Trisball in the collection. And one of them is me. It comes complete with a dedicated flightcase and basemotor.

Already had some very interesting offers from other collectors to buy this item..
But as all effects in this blog. They are NOT for sale!

Look at the Trisball :

 

 

 

 

 

And to give you an impression..here's a video :

 



 

 

Ever Hexagon

My first Ever product ever bought..Its a simple 6 bulb helicopter, but with a fairly complicated drive unit, which is situated at the inside of the head.

Just for fun!

Clay Paky Astro Disco 3 (READY FOR RENT)(2 pcs)

A littel bit further down the blog you will find and entry in which I display the CP astro Disco 3 with the very rare HTI version, which I sold. The actual owner had some damage with the unit and decided it was better to return her to me, because, and I quote "she is better off with you"...
But he didnt return just one unit, I bought his own unit, a standard AD3 with Halogen lamp also....so now I have 2 AD3 in my collection!!

Satel Oxis (in storage since decembre 18th 2013)

Got an offer to buy a Satel Oxis. In the early 90s I had two of them and they are still very cool vintage effects.
The unit was on a list of an inventory from a former Night Club named Red in Leeuwarden (NL)
I finally came to an agreement with the owner and got her. She is in a fairly good shape, but needs a new powdercoat and rewire...

Will keep you posted with the progress!

Coemar Comet 36

They are as rare as a Toyota GT 2000, but still I have been in the position to buy a Coemar Comet 36 in very good working condition.
The shell has been painted black. I will get this unit in january 2014 and will then look if it is possible to repaint the Shell back into it's original Spick Silver color.

After receipt of the big item, it will go straight to my flightcase builder for the build of a flightcase, because it is too big, too fragile, to transport it without a good case!

To get a good impression, here's a movie :