LED Moonflower with gobos

[Chris]

I've been looking for another set of LED moonflower's to replace the Puma's (ideally with separate gobo/colour wheels this time) and I'm leaning towards high end mirror scanners or moving heads with a prism instead of traditional moonflower structure lights as the price difference between them is small (and all of the moonflower LED lights I've seen so far have had pretty poor optics).

Julian

Hi Julian, did you get the moonflowers in the end? Am looking at perhaps getting a couple myself.

[DJ Jules]

Hi Julian, did you get the moonflowers in the end? Am looking at perhaps getting a couple myself.

I'm going to go and talk to a man about them today and get a few Demo's I'll let you know the outcome.

Julian

[DJ Jules]

I'm going to go and talk to a man about them today and get a few Demo's I'll let you know the outcome.

Julian

Quick update - I'm going to go and talk to a different man about fixtures and demo's. Talking to a man who suggested a 4 head multicolour pattern laser for first dances for weddings wasn't very productive...

Part of me is leaning towards buying a high end moonflower effect (Acme Cheetah), but for very similar money I could pick up a pair of ADJ X-Move's or a Chauvet Q-Spot 260 LED. Having said all this, the Chauvet Obsession 2.0 LED is very good (£129/side) and there are a few good cluster laser/LED combination fixtures out there too.

There's just far too many dotty LED fixtures out there for my liking, and not enough quality versatile units.

Julian

[Chris]

Quick update - I'm going to go and talk to a different man about fixtures and demo's. Talking to a man who suggested a 4 head multicolour pattern laser for first dances for weddings wasn't very productive...

Part of me is leaning towards buying a high end moonflower effect (Acme Cheetah), but for very similar money I could pick up a pair of ADJ X-Move's or a Chauvet Q-Spot 260 LED. Having said all this, the Chauvet Obsession 2.0 LED is very good (£129/side) and there are a few good cluster laser/LED combination fixtures out there too.

There's just far too many dotty LED fixtures out there for my liking, and not enough quality versatile units.

Julian

Thanks Julian, would love to know what you choose. Whens decision day?

You're right, versatile lighting is needed - good for slow first dance or superfast dance track - or is it best to get separate lights that do both?

[DJ Jules]

Thanks Julian, would love to know what you choose. Whens decision day?

Probably when I next get paid as what I'm after seems to be blowing my budget out of the water

I'm eyeing up these at the moment:

Stairville SC-x50 MKII LED Scanner. These seem to tick all the boxes - separate gobo and colour wheel, rotating gobo's, rotating prism, 6kg in weight and 50w LED light source at quite a reasonable price - £295. They're a bit ugly, but I can cope with that.

Does anyone have any experience with them (and other Stairville/Thomann fixtures?)

Alternatives I've come up with are:

Eurolite TSL 400 which has everything apart from the prism and is £40 cheaper and Stairville MHX50 Moving head which basically has all the features of the above scanner, but it's a moving head and £70 more.

I'm still reluctant to get moving heads due to size/weight/mounting/setup time concerns as my lights have to fit in the car and go on the bar

Does anyone have any advice on this subject?

Julian

[TONYTIGER]

Check out the ADJ Inno scanner,have had 4 for 6 months and have been impressed