mattydj50
28-04-2013, 01:30 PM
Has anyone else had any problems with white LED based effects losing brilliance over a short space of time.
I've now had this twice, both incidentally with American DJ lights, but over a 2 year period.
Its only been noticeable because both times its happened to one of a pair of lights working together. On a single, stand alone unit, you would have nothing to make a comparison.
The first time was for a pair of X-Scans which, after about three months of to-ing and fro-ing, I then spoke to the ADJ rep at BPM who told me that they had identified a small batch of faulty LEDs and some had escaped onto the market in various products. I returned the lights to ADJ (via my retailer) but, as so much time had passed and they would have taken a while to get them fixed / replaced, the retailer and I did a deal to have them replaced with another manufacturer's product which sorted me out.
Now, last night, I used my new ADJ LED X-move 25R's for the 4th time only and I thought my eyes were playing tricks. I switched them off and on again and swopped the power and control cables around, ran them DMX, master & slave and stand alone, and I'm sure that one is now dimmer than the other. I asked a couple of the venue staff to comment and they said the same.
I've obviously not had chance to speak to my retailer yet, but I can't see that it is the same batch of faulty LEDs now 2 years on. If it is, ADJ have a quality control issue.
I did take a couple of photos but they are not brilliant as its difficult to capture the moving images, but I'll try and post them later (or take some more).
If anyone has had a similar experience, I'd like to know.
I've now had this twice, both incidentally with American DJ lights, but over a 2 year period.
Its only been noticeable because both times its happened to one of a pair of lights working together. On a single, stand alone unit, you would have nothing to make a comparison.
The first time was for a pair of X-Scans which, after about three months of to-ing and fro-ing, I then spoke to the ADJ rep at BPM who told me that they had identified a small batch of faulty LEDs and some had escaped onto the market in various products. I returned the lights to ADJ (via my retailer) but, as so much time had passed and they would have taken a while to get them fixed / replaced, the retailer and I did a deal to have them replaced with another manufacturer's product which sorted me out.
Now, last night, I used my new ADJ LED X-move 25R's for the 4th time only and I thought my eyes were playing tricks. I switched them off and on again and swopped the power and control cables around, ran them DMX, master & slave and stand alone, and I'm sure that one is now dimmer than the other. I asked a couple of the venue staff to comment and they said the same.
I've obviously not had chance to speak to my retailer yet, but I can't see that it is the same batch of faulty LEDs now 2 years on. If it is, ADJ have a quality control issue.
I did take a couple of photos but they are not brilliant as its difficult to capture the moving images, but I'll try and post them later (or take some more).
If anyone has had a similar experience, I'd like to know.