Chauvet Ovation House Light Failures

[StradivariusBone]

We have a set of H605FC's purchased 4 years ago and in the past 3 years we've had half of them fail. It seems like the power supplies go bad over time, and in the past month or so we've seen an alarming number start to fail (probably half of the half that failed were in the past 6 months). We have a number of Chauvet fixtures and my experience with them is that the weak links are their power supplies. Can anyone share similar experience? It also seems like the PSU's they source for these are also backordered.

 

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I have 15 P56's that have been completely solid... and we leave them on pretty much 24/7/365

 

[StradivariusBone]

Yeah we leave these on all the time as well. We've never diagnosed the failures ourselves and always sent them down for repairs, but the failure mode is generally the same. Light goes out, sometimes the display works briefly but then gives out. Generally doesn't blow a fuse. We've had a few of the Fresnels go with the same type of failure though they typically start blowing fuses.

Outside of the failures, they are solid and I like 'em. The only other issue we're now encountering is that the version we have doesn't 100% colormatch to the newer version, but that's just the game with silicon lighting.