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(More customer reviews)Out of the box, these lights are pretty solid. Construction is sturdy and they come with both a power cord and power extension cord. I was glad to see that the ac adapter was built into the light. On the back of the light, there are plugs for both power in and power out; meaning these lights can be daisy chained on power just as they are with dmx.
After firing them up, I immediatley noticed that the color distribution was not that great; the colors wern't properly mixed and were not homogeneous. This is because there are twice as many red leds as there are blue and green, causing a slightly larger red blur and an uneven distribution - which was bad for me because I was using the lights as wash lights.
If you have as precise an attention to detail as I do, this uneven distribution would be unacceptable. After some trial and error, I found that if you remove the four screws securing the front window and tape a Rosco 118 Diffusion Film to the back side of this window, it significantly improves performance. The 118 film has just the right amount of diffusion power to even out the distrubution while retaining a good beam angle.
The built in programs aren't too impressive; none of them fade the colors - they all flash through colors or strobe. A static color can be set with the dip switches, with three dips for both red and green and two for blue, totaling 147 color combinations.
So now that I have my diffusion film on, the lights look beautiful. Color mixing via DMX is as smooth as anything out there... for a fraction of the cost.
Brightness is decent for an led light; the leds used in this are certainly of good quality. That said, they aren't powerful enough for stage use; (unless you have enough of them!) they are more suited towards indirect lighting, wash lighting, and general interior lighting.
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