A friend of mine has just bought a pair of these off eBay:
4 Head Laser.
Anyone ever come across Lex Lighting before?
Julian
Lex Lighting
A friend of mine has just bought a pair of these off eBay:
4 Head Laser.
Anyone ever come across Lex Lighting before?
Julian
Not personally, but looking at their site, they're just another importer of Chinese lighting.Originally Posted by DJ Jules
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That's about my take - I was just amazed at the range of new Prolight look a like gear they have on eBay (Triclops, Quadzilla, etc). It's either been copied very quickly, or it's all coming out of the same factory.
Julian
Well, they chose a bangin tune to show it off!
OEM products that prolight choose to badge up. Before ordering ask to look at certificates.
Just to elaborate on Ted's post, he means certificates on the important, major approvals on Lex's products. Every stage lighting distributor, their products have to be RoHS and CE approved. Without approvals, it's very very risky indeed and could get fined a substantial amount of money.
There's tons of stage lighting fixtures on eBay - laser projectors, moving heads and the like and there appears to be 1 or 2 sellers stating whether their products comply with major RoHS and CE approvals. I think people who buy lasers, LED etc from China via eBay to 'open their eyes' and to realise that the products need RoHS and CE in place.
You might save a few pound buying from the far east but their products may not be legal and not comply with the RoHS, IEC and CE standards.
Neil.
Just a quick update on this since Neil has bumped it up again. I've now seen the lasers that my friend bought and they're actually not bad fixtures from an output point of view - they produce pretty good effects. However, control via DMX is difficult (i.e you can control the actual laser positions/intensity, but not change programs, so you either need computer DMX control, or you're going to have to live with the built in sound to light) and the build quality isn't great (the brackets have been threaded on the wrong side, so when you screw the adjustment knobs in tight, you actually don't tighten up the brackets - so they've put a nut on the inside of the bracket to "solve" the problem!)
You get what you pays for...
Julian
Good call Jules!
Sure, you do get what you pay for. It's better to buy from your local disco shop because at the end of the day, you can see exactly what you are buying, inspect the goods before you take them away so that if there is any defects to the gear, you can swap it for another 1, simples! And, if the gear goes faulty, you simply return it to the retailer and they'll either send it back to the distributor or fix it themselves. If, on the other hand you buy gear from abroad, not only do you not get to check out the product(s) before you buy but also if the product goes faulty, the shipping cost will usually cost you quite a considerable amount of money. With distributors here in the UK, they'll carry many pare parts and if the retailer has the facilities to fix gear, the distributor will post the parts or the retailer will ship the faulty goods to the distributor to fix.
Neil.
I have brought two of the 3 mirror lights and a 4 head laser from my local dj store, They had them next to the prolight units and have a very similar output. Infact they looked identical!
But the Lex lights were alot less than the prolight as i were told they were a new company. All of the lights have CE stamp etc and i have been told they have a full 12 month guarantee.
So i think all you are paying extra for is the fact alot of people know prolight as a brand. I will get some pictures of them working on my next disco. Very happy!
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