I have recently bought 6 of these fixtures. And some of the things that has become obvious to me are:
PRO's
- It's a REALLY great price and I haven't been able to find anything for this price.
- It's quite compact, and gives a decent light output
CONS's
-The fan i really noisy, and the fan is more or less always active. Not an issue if the fixtures are used with (loud) music. But for eg. theater close to unusable.
-The dimmer isn't linear. Eg. vil DMX value 0..11 be off. Then 12..19 will be lowest brigthness. From 20 to 255 there are also "steps" in the brigthness.
-The speed of movement isn't linear. Eg. will a larger "step" in movement settle faster than a small "step" in movement. This is weird. I have 6 fixtures mounted in a
6m long truss. I have a scene where all fixtures are pointing straight forward. Then I have another scene where they point outwards in an array/halfcircle. When I
swap between these 2 scenes, the 2 outer fixtures (biggest difference in position) settle faster than the 2 middle ones with the smallest change.
- The focus function is really sloppy. I have looked inside the fixture, and the mechanical parts used are created with so big a tolerance that a DMX change value of maybe 50 will not change the focus since this is used to "engage" the lins to change to the other direction.
CONCLUSION: It you can live with the downsides - then it's unbeatable for the price.