With a little prodding by Gafftaper here is my quick impression of the new Neo-Neon Mach 5 Moving Spot
Run down of features:
- Lamp: 575W MSR-575/DE Discharge lamp.
- Shutter: 2 blade shutter for blackout, strobe effects from 1-7 f.p.s. and dimming
- Colours: 11 Dichroic colours plus white, with variable speed Rainbow effect
- Gobos: 6 indexable, interchangeable, bi-directionally rotating gobos plus open.
Gobo wheel can scroll at variable speeds
- Prism: 1 static 3 facet prism
- Focus: DMX controlled focus
- Zoom: DMX controlled stepped zoom 14º and 18º
- Pan: 570º movement, 8 or 16 bit control
- Tilt: 270º movement, 8 or 16 bit control
- Control: DMX512 – 12 or 14 channels
- Automatic positional self correction
- Remote fixture reset via DMX
- Lamp on/off via DMX
So this unit showed up in the shop a few weeks ago and I was told to test it and put it through its rigors. While I will not be opting for these over VL-2500's any time soon they are a great fixture.
The whole unit occupies about the same space amount of space as most 250 watt fixtures but boasts a superb output with its 575 watt lamp. Gobos are clear and crisp with two lense positions, narrow and wide, to provide some variety. The fixture has a prism but it is not rotatable.
I like having all 11 colors on one wheel for making programming easier, and the selection of colors was good. Stock gobos were excellent and not the typical crap ones I was expecting from it. A pleasant surprise was the fact that they were both indexable and rotating.
All in all I was pleased with the fixture, it did not feel like it would fall apart and it had a strong feature set. The hands down thing that sets it apart from the rest of the pack is the price, I would suggest talking to a dealer like bill to find out what they are going for.
Run down of features:
- Lamp: 575W MSR-575/DE Discharge lamp.
- Shutter: 2 blade shutter for blackout, strobe effects from 1-7 f.p.s. and dimming
- Colours: 11 Dichroic colours plus white, with variable speed Rainbow effect
- Gobos: 6 indexable, interchangeable, bi-directionally rotating gobos plus open.
Gobo wheel can scroll at variable speeds
- Prism: 1 static 3 facet prism
- Focus: DMX controlled focus
- Zoom: DMX controlled stepped zoom 14º and 18º
- Pan: 570º movement, 8 or 16 bit control
- Tilt: 270º movement, 8 or 16 bit control
- Control: DMX512 – 12 or 14 channels
- Automatic positional self correction
- Remote fixture reset via DMX
- Lamp on/off via DMX
So this unit showed up in the shop a few weeks ago and I was told to test it and put it through its rigors. While I will not be opting for these over VL-2500's any time soon they are a great fixture.
The whole unit occupies about the same space amount of space as most 250 watt fixtures but boasts a superb output with its 575 watt lamp. Gobos are clear and crisp with two lense positions, narrow and wide, to provide some variety. The fixture has a prism but it is not rotatable.
I like having all 11 colors on one wheel for making programming easier, and the selection of colors was good. Stock gobos were excellent and not the typical crap ones I was expecting from it. A pleasant surprise was the fact that they were both indexable and rotating.
All in all I was pleased with the fixture, it did not feel like it would fall apart and it had a strong feature set. The hands down thing that sets it apart from the rest of the pack is the price, I would suggest talking to a dealer like bill to find out what they are going for.