Off to the wilds of Aberdeenshire for a few days - primarily to give the assistant some exercise before she goes in for surgery.
So which lights should I take with me?
After at least a second's thought I realised:
All of them that I can find. :bigsmile:
Once you have them all assembled, please post a pic or two. Enjoy your trip.
Will do.
Now to pack up the cells, chargers, tools, and stuff.
Better leave some room for the assistant's (and my own) food. Some clothes and a toothbrush might be useful if there's any room left in the car.
I did a bunch of 40 metre beamshots there last year - if its raining this time I'll work with the smaller lights and do some indoor beamshots instead.
This is the place, it is around 350 years old and the walls are a metre of solid granite. The slates are about 6cm thick. It is an absolutely typical "but an' ben" two rooms upstairs two rooms downstairs. The two windows visible aren't original. They date from the early 1960's.
When my folks got the place about 45 years ago, it was the only one in the glen (valley) that had an indoors toilet. Come to that, it was the only one in the glen that had indoors water! About 25 years later it got electricity - but if the power is out there is no water. :(
There's a clear line of sight of about a kilometre across the Don which would be fun if I was into mad throwers. The pylon in the background is around 2500 feet from where I was standing to take this picture.
The nearest streetlights are on the other side of a mountain range (collection of small hills for anyone who lives in places with proper mountains) the highest point in Scotland is less than 1500m above sea level. Where I lived on the Central African Plateau in the early 80's was way above the highest point in the UK.
what is an "assistant"? is that an insider? :)
or a squirrel?
Love those snow squirrels!
No - she's a giant schnauzer. The lady she's sitting on is the very talented Gillian Martin who is married to a very good friend of mine. The assistant thinks she's wonderful. Gillian will never forget the first time she met me.
The assistant would be Don's (not quite) puppy dog... 
@ kreisler: it is his dog.
If you are limited in luggage get a close-range flooder like the UF-H3, a semi-thrower (XP-G, maybe P60)) and a thrower with large reflector and XM-L like X9 or V2
She is a lot smaller than the last assistant, but was hardly a puppy when I got her as she'd spent 5.5 years as a brood bitch in a commercial kennel.
It is registered with all the appropriate bodies, but....
The limit on luggage is what will actually fit in the car given that the back seat belongs to the assistant.
Rover 75's have very limited space in the boot (trunk for Americans) since most of the space is taken up by the recess for the spare wheel. A boxed 27" iMac fills the boot completely.
And the spare wheel is one of those awful narrow "drive at less than 30mph for less than 30 miles" things that takes up about 1% of the wasted space.
The 130 or so lights take up surprisingly little space. The batteries, chargers, tools and stuff take up a surprising amount of space. The aluminium case I keep the meters in is bigger than the messenger bag I keep over 100 lights in. My sleeping bag takes up more space than around 110 lights.
Which saves having to wash bedding for a stay of two or three nights.
Hmm...
Exactly! 