HarryTHP

That's what I thought, but nope! Notches on the outside of the connector are correct, but the internal part of it is rotated about 90 degrees. Since it's not a perfect circle, it blocks the whole thing from going in. A very strange, dud lead. The one that came with the 2nd light is fine, however 🤔

Yeah, it appears they have a massive backlog... With a bit of trial and error, I managed to patch them myself 🙂 I also got them both working! The one with the broken pan just needed it's rubber belt slipping back over the motor. Not easily accessible at all, I managed to do it through a small gap using some pens after half disasembling the light, but to get full access, the whole thing would have needed to come apart and the side panels are held on with an excessive amount of screws! 😂 The one with no DMX signal is also fixed, as I was using it as a reference to fix the broken pan light, and in doing so noticed a disconnected, slightly melted connector. Reattached it and all works well! Can't say the build quality on those PCBs is good at all... The insides of those lights are an awful mess. One light's fan is much louder than the other. After I've used them for my show in August, I'm thinking of replacing the fans. At a glance they just look like regular computer case fans, so I'm thinking of replacing them with some more quiet Noctua fans if I can find a model that matches the size and connectivity. Thanks for all your help! After a lot of frustration and perseverance, they're finally working well 😌

Wow, they look really impressive, hopefully I did a good thing buying them! Thanks! Yeah I'm talking with Grace at the moment, next port of call is to open it up when I'm next at the theatre and check the DMX In is properly connected. If not, should be a simple soldering job. The screws seem to strip easily, so that'll be fun.. The PowerCon cable was very weird. The inner part was rotated so it just didn't fit in anything, not an issue though as I have others. Put in a fixture request to ETC to see if they'll make me a file for my Element desk. So fingers crossed they come back with that- I'm going to try it on a 1:1 patch when I'm next in the theatre just to check everything is actually working! Will post updates here when I've made progress!

Fast forward 4 months and I now own two of these things. One isn't detecting a DMX signal which is fun and the other came with a weird misaligned powercon cable that doesn't fit in anything... How did you patch these fixtures?? I've followed the exact DMX channel mappings as in the instructions, but all I'm able to control on my one working light is the pan. Do you happen to have a fixture preset for EOS desks I can pinch? I can't find anything online, but someone must have created one at some point

I thought that was a typo and that they must mean 20°, but apparantly not so: https://jnrorwxhllkklm5p-static.micyjz.com/cloud/lpBpoKrploSRkjikopriio/LUX-data.png At a 10m distance, they're just shy of a diameter of 1m. Yeah it's a bit of a headache, and if you buy the same fixture at different times, you sometimes end up with completely different lights! Other than your issues with panning, which I'm assuming was a problem with that specific unit, how did you find it? I'm worried the 50W one I found might be a bit measly. Ultimate question is were the fans noisy? 😅 Do you know what the rotary dial next to the LCD is for? And upon further research I can see it includes... A colour wheel!! An RGB light with a colour wheel as well; how strange

I've been scouring the internet for hours throughout today and have probably looked at over a hundred different fixtures, but I've just not been satisfied with the colour wheel offerings at the price point I want and didn't really want to be tempted by chinese imports based on more expensive moving head gobo spots as my experience with them has not been great. I hired some Robe Pointe copies a while back and they were incredibly noisy and the light they produced was pretty visually unappealing compared to what I've seen of the real thing (probably where my dislike of leds with colour wheels comes from!) Just as I was about to give up, I made one more seach for 'rgb gobo light' and this appeared on the first page. A made-in-china listing for the 'Ablelite ADA50BRGB.' $580 (approx £480) for an RGB mover with a gobo wheel?? Surely it seems too good to be true. I found the manufacturer's page for it and looking at the video and the datasheets it's seemingly exactly what I want. It's suprisingly well documented for a chinese fixture and they even provide patch profiles for it. I wouldn't expect it to be as good as the Elation Fuze looks, but at £480 a pop, I'm rather tempted just to see what it's like. There's absolutely no other mention of it anywhere though apart from one more retail site it's listed on which is where I shall probably purchase it from seeing that the made-in-china listing has a minimum purchase qty of 12 😩 Am I missing something here? Given both the scarcity and price point of RGB moving head gobo spots, and complete absense of any other chinese version, this can't be for real...

Ah yes of course! I didn't consider this. That must be why they're seemingly scarcer than I imagined The Fuzes look really nice! I think the Robe T1's are certainly off the table given the price. A fair few of Robe's fixtures have chinese copies made of them, but not a case with this one so no money saving option there... I suppose my next question is, how much control would a fixture that advertises CMY colour mixing give me? There's a lot more to choose from especially at an affordable price point. Is CMY mixing almost as flexible as RGB or is it not much better than the generic colours you'd expect from a colour wheel?

Might be a potentially ridiculous question, but I'm looking for a moving head spot with a gobo wheel that uses RGB LED lights, not a white LED with a colour wheel. Does such a fixture exist? I can't seem to find anything that fits this description other than one which is being sold for £20k 😳 https://sgmlight.com/products/g·spot-turbo If anyone knows of anymore, I'd be thankful to hear of them as it seems somewhat baffling that such a fixture doesn't seem to exist... Thanks! 🙂

I volunteer at a small theatre and whilst sorting out an incredibly packed tech cupboard, I came across 6 of these ES6000 dimmers. Some research told me that they're circa 1974, which is approximately when this theatre opened, but that's all I've really found other than some mentions of them in old magazines and two threads from this forum. They were replaced several years back and it's all soon to be replaced again with a new LED setup, so the theatre has no real use for them anymore. Just wondering if anyone could give me a bit more info about them- Were they any good? Are there people running vintage lighting setups that still use them? Would they be worth anything even? They've been pretty poorly stored and one of them is missing it's PCB, so I doubt they work, but if there's a market for them I'd much rather sell them on to someone for parts who can actually make use of them and maybe raise some money for the theatre, rather than have them sitting doing nothing... Thanks 🙂 ^H