Don't bother. They're old, long discontinued, and if you have to buy your own clamps or replace any sensors, you'll have more money invested in those than if you just went out and bought some cheap LED movers. The LED's will even be half the weight, half the size, will rotate on their motors faster, will be brighter, and won't be as susceptible to DMX timing errors.
The Mac 300's aren't great as dissipating heat and unless those two have been maintained well, there's a good chance the sensors are cooked and will start giving you errors. Not impossible to overcome, but you need to be comfortable with a soldering iron and a basic understanding of electronic circuits.
Most importantly, 300's just aren't very bright. And for EDM, I don't think you can get the strobe or color wheel mechanisms to activate nearly as fast as you would want them to.
I don't think you'll find anything quite that cheap, but it depends what you want to do. If you really need them to be movers, then you'll pay a premium. Otherwise for the cost of movers you can do twice as many static fixtures.
The unfortunate trick here is that it's not really $360 you're comparing against. By the time you get those Mac 300's into shape, fair chance you'll be invested upward of $750, and if one of them loses its main PCB, you now have a single fixture that won't match anything else in your rig. Again -- I'm saying all of this as someone who purchased 4 units a year and a half ago, at a "steal" until I had to bring them up to snuff.
At that price point, I would look at the stuff Chauvet has. They've really turned around their quality of manufacturing in the last couple years. (Paging @CHAUVET Professional for a recommendation...). Blizzard Lighting has some products that are another option I've seen a lot of in the wild -- with mixed reviews, particularly on their support side.
I don't think you'll find anything quite that cheap, but it depends what you want to do. If you really need them to be movers, then you'll pay a premium. Otherwise for the cost of movers you can do twice as many static fixtures.
The unfortunate trick here is that it's not really $360 you're comparing against. By the time you get those Mac 300's into shape, fair chance you'll be invested upward of $750, and if one of them loses its main PCB, you now have a single fixture that won't match anything else in your rig. Again -- I'm saying all of this as someone who purchased 4 units a year and a half ago, at a "steal" until I had to bring them up to snuff.
At that price point, I would look at the stuff Chauvet has. They've really turned around their quality of manufacturing in the last couple years. (Paging @CHAUVET Professional for a recommendation...). Blizzard Lighting has some products that are another option I've seen a lot of in the wild -- with mixed reviews, particularly on their support side.
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