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Equinox RGB Power Batten
Last week I purchased a couple of Swarm 4 FX lights and I have to say I am happy with them. They have quite a large spread and when linked master / slave they look pretty good. Anyway, this thread isn't about them.....Whilst in the shop (Total Sounds in Reading), I was shown the Equinox RGB Power Batten. I have to say that I was impressed with them. They have a number of auto settings which are pretty cool but most of all they are very powerful.
My main reason for buying 2 at the time was for uplighting. I purchased another 2 the following day because at £59.00 each I think they are great value for money.
All 4 of them fit in a speaker stand bag too. I haven't tried it as yet and probably won't but for those that put them on their DJ stand uprights, I can imagine them providing a decent show when set to one of the auto settings when linked together. I gave Daryll a demo at the weekend and he looked impressed by them too.
With reference to the uplighting side of things, the venue I was in....usually on one of the walls I would set up 3 uplighters. I only used one of these and it produced the same if not better effect.
Worth a look I think if you are looking at some new bits and bobs...
https://www.djkit.com/equinox/equino...1EQaAiSK8P8HAQ
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Dinosaur
I have some on order. When I saw them at first, I had no idea what to use them for, but I wasn't going to miss them at that price. Since then, I've got a very specifif purpose in mind, more when I get hold of them.
Last edited by Excalibur; 15-12-2015 at 08:06 PM.
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Look forward to you revealing all (ooer....not that way mate!).
I've seen a lot of gigs (the big bands) use things like this in the background (Numan of late to name but one). Obviously they aren't £59.00 versions but you could get the same kind of effect, especially with the built in programs. I haven't hooked them up DMX to a controller yet and probably won't but linked together on Auto, they're pretty good. I am tempted to get another 4 because for Uplighting they are great. The guys at both Total Sounds and DJKit tell me they are selling very well.
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These seem good on paper but they are only 10mm leds,and as a trade buyer come in much cheaper you get what you pay for so dont espect much.
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Dinosaur
Originally Posted by
TONYTIGER
These seem good on paper but they are only 10mm leds,and as a trade buyer come in much cheaper you get what you pay for so dont espect much.
Point taken, Tony. I have a good idea of trade price, so I ( and probably most of us ) are under no illusions. For what I hope to use them for, the multiple effect will be better than tri/quad/multi LED units.
They so remind me of an effect that never failed to impress guests, the KAM 800 panels. Time will tell about reliability, but to be honest, at that price, it's feasible to buy more units than you need to allow for it.
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Dinosaur
Originally Posted by
CRAZY K
You might need to Peter.
I'm not sure how powerful these are--they had some at my last gig put in by the venue--a rare Wedding for me---I was a bit underwhelmed by the effect of two of them in the dancing area used as uplights.
Again, point taken, Alan.
But, if I wanted to shift a hundred tons of soil on a job, I'd use a two ton dumper, not a wheelbarrow.I've got a job on Saturday in a tiny room for fifty guests ( I don't think we can get more than half in at once ) so I'll not be using the four box big PA, two ten inch cabs driven by an old two hundred watt mixer amp will be quite big enough. The tiny one would have been useless at the gig I did in a huge gymnasium last week.
Horses for courses
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Dinosaur
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I got them because they are another way of working smarter and doing less if that makes sense?
They are quite powerful in certain venues and because they are quite big it means using less of the other lights if that makes sense too?
Generally for my uplighting I use the Kam RGB LED Panels which are very bright or the ADJ Megabar 50.
As I mentioned in my first post - On one of the walls at my main residency I usually use 3 of the Kams which are very powerful in my opinion. The other night I just used 1 of the Equinox and it produced a great spread.
Each to their own and all that. I like them anyway.
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