Thanks
@gafftaper and
@porkchop .
I haven't seen any online prices yet for the colorforce II.
I'm looking at doing
LED cyc lights myself and at this
point I think I'm going with the
Chauvet Ovation B 2805fc although I wasn't able to do a side by side comparison, I thought the Chauvet looked quite a
bit brighter than the Colorforce II. Chauvet said its twice as bright as Colorforce 1. ChromaQ says the two is 50% brighter than the one.... So if both are correct, the Chauvet is what 25% brighter than the 2 (somebody check my math). Both were set up to
wash a
drop about 25' high. And did the job well, but the Chauvet fixtures had the added challenge of lighting a painted
drop with a lot of dark gray and black on it. I'm pretty confident the Chauvets will handle my 19' cycle easily.
The ChromaQ cells are only 3" across where the Chauvet is about 5" per
cluster group. Depending on what you are doing, that may or may not matter.
Build quality appeared looked and felt good on both.
If you are looking at the
fixture the chromaQ has tthe advantage of those individual cells with diffusers so each
cell is perfectly mixed before you see it. The Chauvet is a bunch of individual
LED's that go through a diffuser and mix in the air. For me this is not significant, but for some it might be. This also means there are no weird color shadows on the ChromaQ. There may be some color shadows on the Chauvet, but I didn't bother looking because I don't care, I'm going to
wash a
cyc with these, color shadows are not an issue. The diffusers seemed to be a little more high tech on the ChromaQ, with a two part diffusion to try to hit the top and bottom of the
cyc differently.
Price, I don't know what ChromaQ is charging but the Chauvets are around $2,200. Given the price of the other ChromaQ products, I'm sure it's a LOT more than that.
As always, get demos and see for yourself!