TupeloTechie
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I recently picked up a couple of Strong Neeva RGBA units for an incredible price on ebay. Unfortunately when they arrived both units had what seems to be a secondary condenser lens completely loose inside the units. When I opened them up, this lens appears to have been only glued in place, as shown in the pictures below. The glue seems to be an epoxy but there is also bits of silicone around the edges of the lens (this may be a previous owner's attempt at repairing this issue in the past.)
I do plan on giving Strong a call in the morning, but I thought someone on here may have dealt with the same problem in the past, or possibly be able to recommend a glue/epoxy/silicone to glue the glass lens to it's metal holding frame.
On a side note, I do have to say that I am not terribly impressed with the fixture build quality. The body appears to be a blatant rip off of an early run source four, only made from a lower quality cast. If you remove the "cap" (made from a thin plastic) you can even see the original lamp hole/screw/alignment pins for a conventional source four cap. Unfortunately, this is where the comparison to a source four stops. It seems in order to save some money on casting, both the shutter assembly and the lens tube are double sided, leaving a non-functioning gobo and accessory slot on the bottom of the unit (and lots of light leak,) along with an extremely fragile color frame holder (broke off in the mail, even though they were packaged well.) The rotating shutter assembly has also been screwed down in four spots, in addition to the two standard screws on the top and bottom. If I take these four screws out I can rotate the shutters, which makes me wonder why they did this.
I haven't had a chance to test out the quality of light and it's dimmer curve, but hopefully they are better than the build quality.
I do plan on giving Strong a call in the morning, but I thought someone on here may have dealt with the same problem in the past, or possibly be able to recommend a glue/epoxy/silicone to glue the glass lens to it's metal holding frame.
On a side note, I do have to say that I am not terribly impressed with the fixture build quality. The body appears to be a blatant rip off of an early run source four, only made from a lower quality cast. If you remove the "cap" (made from a thin plastic) you can even see the original lamp hole/screw/alignment pins for a conventional source four cap. Unfortunately, this is where the comparison to a source four stops. It seems in order to save some money on casting, both the shutter assembly and the lens tube are double sided, leaving a non-functioning gobo and accessory slot on the bottom of the unit (and lots of light leak,) along with an extremely fragile color frame holder (broke off in the mail, even though they were packaged well.) The rotating shutter assembly has also been screwed down in four spots, in addition to the two standard screws on the top and bottom. If I take these four screws out I can rotate the shutters, which makes me wonder why they did this.
I haven't had a chance to test out the quality of light and it's dimmer curve, but hopefully they are better than the build quality.
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